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Page 43 - Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God ; But only he who sees takes off his shoes...
Page 1 - LIPPINCOTT'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES EDITED BY MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, AM, PH.D., LL.D. SUPERINTENDENT Of SCHOOLS, PHILADELPHIA VOLUME VII Lippincott's Educational Series EDITED BY DR.
Page 178 - ... imagination — of selfishness, not of generosity. I amuse myself sometimes in turning them inside out — that is, reversing their statements : and in some cases they are even better reversed. Thus, the common saying is, " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," and this is true in a low sense ; but a bird in the bush is worth two in the hand is quite as true in a higher sense.
Page 11 - The Study of Nature By Samuel Christian Schmucker, AM, Ph.D. of West Chester (Pa.), State Normal School The author, with rare insight and skill, has here given to teachers in orderly array such typical exercises and such appreciative interpretation of the things in our common environment as to make delightful the interpreting of nature to a child. Illustrated. 12m".
Page 39 - ... (the landscape) is ever with him, and if he has learned in his early life to know and love, to take interest in, and to care for, his surroundings, then he will have a source of possible culture that will stay with him, without undue effort and without cost, for the rest of his natural life.
Page 40 - Mr. Huxley has taught us that three things are clearly necessary to the attainment of what is known as the scientific habit. The good scientist must observe clearly, describe accurately, and infer justly. Nothing could be more conducive to the formation of good character than a continuous practice in these matters. Of course, these three scientific requirements can be held to only in their absolute and full meaning in the laboratory, and with pupils of reasonably matured minds.
Page 250 - A study of the geography of the moon for a few nights will fix firmly the idea of the moon being a spherical body provided with mountains and plains and revolving in space. It is the one object lesson to help pupils really conceive of the earth in any clear fashion. The early astronomers who named the markings on the moon called the ridges mountains, and in this later observations prove them to be right.
Page 28 - So it is that the training which is to improve the observation is the training of the brain back of the eye, and not at all of the eye itself. The things which we recognize are commonly familiar things, though it may often happen that when they once get too familiar we again fail to notice them, and nothing but a change in our surroundings and the absence of a familiar object excites our attention.
Page 31 - ... clime to every other. Such work as this is utterly impossible unless the pupil has formed in his early years a clear series of primary ideas on which to build. The pupil who has gone with the teacher to the road-side after a shower has been led to notice how the...
Page 31 - Now he is prepared to understand the life of any grass wherever it may grow, and is also, if properly guided, prepared to understand why the plains of the world are usually covered with grass; is prepared to build up in his mind a prairie, a pampas, or a llano.