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Common terms and phrasesacquire activity adolescent amusement association become beget begin behavior Bible cent chapter character child childhood church school cooperation desire devotional E. L. Thorndike education of children Edward Lyttelton experience express feel forms functions furnish FURTHER READING girls give graded grow H. F. Cope Horace Bushnell human imitation impulses industrial revolution industry infant baptism instinctive tendencies interests INVESTIGATION AND DISCUSSION Irving King Jesus John Dewey Law of Effect law of habit lesson live materials means methods Missionary Education moral motives older Original Nature parents pigs play possible practice prayer present principle problems Psychology public schools pupils race reasons recapitulation theory REFERENCE AND FURTHER religion Religious Education responsibilities share social social environment Social Psychology spirit Stanley Hall Sunday school teachers teaching theory things tion understand unselfish William McDougall worship zest Popular passagesPage 181 - But have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means ? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment ? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time... Page 89 - ... the child, after birth, is still within the matrix of the parental life, and will be more or less, for many years. And the parental life will be flowing into him all that time, just as naturally, and by a law as truly organic, as when the sap of a trunk flows into a limb. Page 221 - Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them ; and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister : and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all. For verily the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Page 89 - In all this they infringe upon no right of the child, they only fulfill an office which belongs to them. Their will and character are designed to be the matrix of the child's will and character. Meantime, he approaches more and more closely, and by a gradual process, to the proper rank and responsibility of an individual creature, during all which process of separation, he is having their exercises and ways translated into him. Page 128 - In play every mood and movement is instinct with heredity Thus we rehearse the activities of our ancestors, back we know not how far, and repeat their life work in summative and adumbrated ways. Page 28 - Though we met few people without doors, yet within we saw the houses full of lusty fellows, some at the dye-vat, some at the loom, others dressing the cloths; the women and children carding, or spinning; all employed from the youngest to the oldest; scarce any thing above four years old, but its hands were sufficient for its own support. Page 154 - One morning when Bradley came down to breakfast, he put on his mother's plate a little piece of paper neatly folded. His mother opened it. She could hardly believe it, but this is what Bradley had written: Mother owes Bradley For running errands... Page 38 - Again, we cannot overlook the importance for educational purposes of the close and intimate acquaintance got with nature at first hand, with real things and materials, with the actual processes of their manipulation, and the knowledge of their social necessities and uses. Page 191 - ... has paved the way and given the material for reflection. It is not indeed necessary that the child should be able to pronounce correctly or pronounce at all, at first, the new words that appear in his reading, any more than that he should spell or write all the new words that he hears spoken. If he grasps, approximately, the total meaning of the sentence in which the new word stands, he has read the sentence. Usually this total meaning will suggest what to call the new word, and the word's correct... Page 173 - The pupils suffered immediately from the results and got some valuable lessons in civil government at first hand. To tell all this sounds as if it must have taken a great deal of time. As a matter of fact, we soon found that we had time to spare. The time which had previously been taken up by the teacher's questions was all saved, and the pupils could easily recite in half an hour what it had taken them an hour to prepare. The reports of the secretary... References from web pagesebscohost Connection: THE TRAINING OF CHILDREN IN THE CHRISTIAN ... JSTOR: Mother and Child. Bibliographic information
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