The Kindergarten-primary Magazine, Volume 20

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Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle
1908 - Education
 

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Page 267 - And I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the moon and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subject nevertheless to the rights hereinafter given to lovers.
Page 267 - Item: And to those who are no longer children, or youths, or lovers, I leave memory, and I bequeath to them the volumes of the poems of Burns and Shakespeare and of other poets, if there be others, to the end that they may live the old days over again, freely and fully without title or diminution. Item: To our loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep.
Page 41 - Consequently, the final outcome of that speculation commenced by the primitive man is that the Power manifested throughout the Universe distinguished as material, is the same Power which in ourselves wells up under the form of consciousness.
Page 170 - Education consists in leading man, as a thinking, intelligent being, growing into self-consciousness, to a pure and unsullied, conscious and free representation of the inner law of Divine Unity, and in teaching him ways and means thereto.
Page 267 - ... one may skate; to have and to hold the same for the period of their boyhood.
Page 267 - Item: To lovers, I devise their imaginary world with whatever they may need; as the stars of the sky, the red...
Page 78 - Nature Study is learning those things in Nature that are best worth knowing, to the end of doing those things that make life most worth living.
Page 267 - Item: To young men, jointly, I devise and bequeath all boisterous, inspiring sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence in their own strength. Though they are rude...
Page 77 - The things of nature form a more beautiful ladder between heaven and earth than that seen by Jacob ; not a one-sided ladder leading in one direction, but an allsided one leading in all directions. Not in dreams is it seen ; it is permanent ; it surrounds us on all sides. It is decked with flowers, and angels with children's eyes beckon us toward it ; it is solid, resting on a floor of crystals; the inspired singer, David, praises and glorifies it.
Page 267 - I leave to them the power to make lasting friendships, and of possessing companions, and to them exclusively, I give all merry songs and brave choruses to sing with lusty voices.

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