Theory and Practice of Teaching: Or, The Motives and Methods of Good School-keeping |
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acquire answer appeal to fear Arithmetic astronomy attention become better branch called carefully character child CHIROGRAPHIC common schools conscience consider corporal punishment course cultivation Dartmouth College DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY desire district duty effectually ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA evil excite exer exercise experience feel finer feelings friends give Grammar habit heart Horace Mann hour human illustration important improvement infliction inquire instruction interest knowledge labor language learned lessons look means ment mental Mental Arithmetic metic mind moral motives Natural Philosophy nature neglected never object once parents perhaps practice prepared present principle prize profession punishment pupils question quired recess recitation render reward rience rule scholars scholium schoolroom soon soul spirit success taught teaching text-book thing tion tricity truth uncon vidual WILLARD'S words young teacher
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Page 327 - Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly : thou settlest the furrows thereof : thou makest it soft with showers : thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 327 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea. 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power: 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Page 156 - And he would not for a while. But afterward he said within himself; Though I fear not God, nor regard man ; Yet, because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her ; lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 124 - ... which are these ; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 125 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 308 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, . To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 327 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water : thou prepares! them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly : thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers : thou blessest the springing thereof.
Page 347 - His is a progress not to be compared with anything like a march ; but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won.
Page 51 - The result is that more than eleven-twelfths of all the children in the reading classes in our schools do not understand the meaning of the words they read; that they do not master the sense of the reading lessons...
Page 141 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.