A Study of Child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint |
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Page 108 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell; And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered, "I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
Page 14 - This is the mother, good and dear ; This the father, with hearty cheer ; This is the brother, stout and tall ; This is the sister, who plays with her doll ; And this is the baby, the pet of all. Behold the good family, great and small...
Page 161 - But a free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
Page 81 - And all work, too, all exercises which awaken the active powers which form the capacity for rendering loving services to fellow-creatures, will help to lay the groundwork of religion in the child. The awakening of love goes before that of faith : he who does not love cannot believe, for it is love that discovers to us the object or the being worthy of our faith. Loving self-surrender to what is higher than...
Page 44 - For impressions, inclinations, appetites which the child may have derived from his food, the turn it may have given to his senses, and even to his life, as a whole, can only with difficulty be set aside even when the age of selfdependence has been reached. They are one with...
Page 45 - Who has not noticed in children, over-stimulated by spices and excess in food, appetites of a very low order, from which they can never again be freed — appetites which, even when they seem to have been suppressed, only slumber, and in times of opportunity return with greater power, threatening to rob man of all his dignity, and to force him away from his duty?
Page 168 - When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires, that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Page 46 - It is by far easier than we think to promote and establish the happiness and welfare of mankind. All the means are simple and at hand ; yet we see them not. We see them, perhaps, but do not notice them. In their simplicity, naturalness, availability, and nearness, they seem too insignificant, and we despise them. We seek help from afar, although help is only in and through ourselves. Hence, at a later period, half or all our accumulated wealth can not procure for our children what greater insight...
Page 11 - ... has to be entered that its wealth may be conquered as an aid in rightly understanding the little child entrusted to her care, not for the added glory it will bring to her. The following facts place this study of child-culture upon the broad basis of a science.
Page 25 - The positive method of training builds up the cheering, optimistic character which is so much needed. Who are the men and women that are lifting the world upward and onward? Are they not those who encourage more than they criticise ? who do more than they undo?