Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volume 2This work presents a series of letters by the author which address education principles. The letters explore the topics of: perception, attention, conception, judgment, imagination & taste abstraction, and reflection. The author's first letter discusses the necessity of obtaining a knowledge of our intellectual faculties, and how this knowledge is acquired. A short analysis of the plan to be pursued is also included. |
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... emotions of Taste , which have their origin in other sources . All animals that have nice perceptions are capable of acquiring a predilection for certain sounds or colours ; but the emotions of taste are peculiar to the human race , and ...
... emotions of Taste , which have their origin in other sources . All animals that have nice perceptions are capable of acquiring a predilection for certain sounds or colours ; but the emotions of taste are peculiar to the human race , and ...
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... emotions of sublimity , now melting it into tenderness . The sense of hearing is in these two persons equally acute ; whence , then , pro- ceeds this amazing difference in their per- ceptions ? An examination of the faculty of atten ...
... emotions of sublimity , now melting it into tenderness . The sense of hearing is in these two persons equally acute ; whence , then , pro- ceeds this amazing difference in their per- ceptions ? An examination of the faculty of atten ...
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... emotion of taste ; and under that head we shall examine it . ་ Some children appear to have much quicker perceptions than others . Where this faculty appears weak , great pains ought to be taken to invigorate it . The mind ought to be ...
... emotion of taste ; and under that head we shall examine it . ་ Some children appear to have much quicker perceptions than others . Where this faculty appears weak , great pains ought to be taken to invigorate it . The mind ought to be ...
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... emotions of terror to an advanced period of life . Had the perceptions been in infancy exercised in examining the nature of objects , these false fears could never have been engendered . On the other hand , if a child has not been ...
... emotions of terror to an advanced period of life . Had the perceptions been in infancy exercised in examining the nature of objects , these false fears could never have been engendered . On the other hand , if a child has not been ...
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... emotions , it in- creases the disposition to benevolence . When exclusively devoted to the study of selfish gratification , it augments the spirit of selfishness . Hence the necessity of teaching children to pay attention to others . I ...
... emotions , it in- creases the disposition to benevolence . When exclusively devoted to the study of selfish gratification , it augments the spirit of selfishness . Hence the necessity of teaching children to pay attention to others . I ...
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Page 254 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 17 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Page 5 - ... curiosity, and to direct it to proper objects ; to exercise their ingenuity and invention ; to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them ; to awaken their sensibilities to the beauties of nature, and to inspire them with a relish "for intellectual enjoyment ; — these form but a part of the business of education...
Page 350 - ... if there were nothing valuable in them for the uses of human life, yet the very speculative parts of this sort of learning are well worth our study ; for by perpetual examples they teach us to conceive with clearness, to connect our ideas...
Page 5 - To instruct youth in the languages and in the sciences, is comparatively of little importance, if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire ; and are not careful in giving, to all their different faculties, and all their different principles of action, a proper degree of employment.
Page 230 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Page 141 - So I went to the party suspected, and I found her full of grief; (Now you must know, of all things in the world, I hate a thief). However, I was resolv'd to bring the discourse slily about, Mrs Dukes...
Page 345 - Except some professed scholars, I have often observed that women in general read much more than men; but, for want of a plan, a method, a fixed object, their reading is of little benefit to themselves or others.
Page 5 - Abstracting entirely from the culture of their moral powers, how extensive and difficult is the business of conducting their intellectual improvement! To watch over the associations which they form in their tender years; to give them early habits of mental activity; to rouse their curiosity, and to direct it to proper objects; to exercise their ingenuity and invention; to cultivate in their minds a turn for speculation, and at the same time preserve their attention alive to the objects around them;...
Page 282 - Taste, is, in general, considered as that Faculty of the Human mind, by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is Beautiful or Sublime in the works of Nature or Art.