The School in the Home: Talks with Parents and Teachers on Intensive Child Training |
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Page 22 - my eighth year. At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors among whom I remember, the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's Cyropasdia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian and Isocrates Ad Demonicum and Ad Nicoclem. —JOHN
Page 119 - On the other hand, when I spoke to persons whom I met in general society I found an entirely different disposition to prevail. Many men and yet a larger number of women and many boys and girls declared that they habitually saw mental imagery and that it was perfectly distinct to them and full of color.
Page 198 - Son of Man stand upon thy feet and I will speak unto thee" is the only revelation of truth to which the solving epochs have helped the
Page 198 - vain," will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his
Page 22 - Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second. I learnt no Latin till my eighth year. At that time I had read under my father's tuition a number of Greek prose authors among whom I remember, the whole of Herodotus and of Xenophon's
Page 138 - The use of traveling," says Dr. Johnson, "is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.
Page 74 - an infamous one?" and hesitated in his answer he was considered as a boy of slow parts and of a soul that would not aspire to honor. The answer was likewise to have a reason assigned for it and proof conceived in few words.
Page 222 - or the baths of Phoebus, he should be able to tell the name of Anchises' nurse and the name and native land of the stepmother of Anchemolus, tell offhand how many years Acestes lived, how many flagons of wine the Sicilian king gave to the Phrygians. Require of him that he
Page 140 - But dull and unteachable persons are no more produced in the course of nature than are persons marked by monstrosity and deformities; such are certainly but few. It will be proof of this assertion that among boys good promise is shown in
Page 253 - (a) Those children who present themselves unwashed or in soiled clothing. "(b) Those who show themselves to be incorrigible. "(c) Those whose parents fail in respect to the persons connected with the 'Children's House' or who destroy through bad conduct the educational work of the institution.