The Massachusetts Teacher: A Journal of School and Home Education, Volume 41851 |
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... reason for this may , in part , be at- tributable to the unfortunate circumstances in which their own early feelings and tastes were developed . May they not have suffered through their whole lives from undeveloped and mis- guided ...
... reason for this may , in part , be at- tributable to the unfortunate circumstances in which their own early feelings and tastes were developed . May they not have suffered through their whole lives from undeveloped and mis- guided ...
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... reasons for the change suggested may be learned from the following paragraphs . 1. IT IS JUST . - Every man who is willing to pay for them , has a right to all the means which other men enjoy , for cultivating his mind by discipline ...
... reasons for the change suggested may be learned from the following paragraphs . 1. IT IS JUST . - Every man who is willing to pay for them , has a right to all the means which other men enjoy , for cultivating his mind by discipline ...
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... reason for this state of things is , that many teachers do not themselves understand the language ; and this fact is indicated . by their bad spelling , and by their unwillingness to write any- thing which others are to read . Parsing ...
... reason for this state of things is , that many teachers do not themselves understand the language ; and this fact is indicated . by their bad spelling , and by their unwillingness to write any- thing which others are to read . Parsing ...
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... reason to hope , profitably , to those assembled . The best feeling pervaded the discussions , and all came away satisfied of the utility of Teachers ' Associations . RICHARD EDWARDS , JR . , Sec'y . RESIDENT EDITORS ' TABLE . OBITUARY ...
... reason to hope , profitably , to those assembled . The best feeling pervaded the discussions , and all came away satisfied of the utility of Teachers ' Associations . RICHARD EDWARDS , JR . , Sec'y . RESIDENT EDITORS ' TABLE . OBITUARY ...
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... reason for his opinions . Facts and characters and processes with which he had to deal , were subjected to a rigid ... Reasons to be stated at length by Judge Fletcher . — Salem Observer , 9th Nov. - THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER . Vol . IV ...
... reason for his opinions . Facts and characters and processes with which he had to deal , were subjected to a rigid ... Reasons to be stated at length by Judge Fletcher . — Salem Observer , 9th Nov. - THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER . Vol . IV ...
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Page 84 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 46 - Those that are dull and diligent. Wines the stronger they be the more lees they have when they are new. Many boys are muddy-headed till they be clarified with age, and such afterwards prove the best.
Page 323 - First, young scholars make this calling their refuge ; yea, perchance, before they have taken any degree in the university, commence schoolmasters in the country, as if nothing else were required to set up this profession but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling.
Page 166 - SMALL BEGINNINGS. (1) A traveler through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree. Love sought its shade, at evening time, to breathe its early vows; And age was pleased, in heats of noon, to bask beneath its boughs; The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, the birds sweet music bore; It stood a glory in its place, a blessing evermore.
Page 238 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 279 - ... to impress on the minds of children and youth, committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues, which aro the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 46 - Rosseau, that the aim of education should be, to teach us rather how to think, than what to think ; rather to improve our minds so as to enable us to think -for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other mien.
Page 185 - But under whose care soever a child is put to be taught, during the tender and flexible years of his life, this is certain, it should be one, who thinks. Latin and languages the least part of education...
Page 192 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Page 48 - I believe that this is not a bow for every man to shoot in, that counts himself a teacher, but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses...