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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... of Conception possessed in different Degrees of Vigour . - How it may best be culti- vated in those of slow Capacity , -Exemplified in a Variety of Instances . - Difference betwixt a Memory of Perception , and the Recollection of Ideas .
... of Conception possessed in different Degrees of Vigour . - How it may best be culti- vated in those of slow Capacity , -Exemplified in a Variety of Instances . - Difference betwixt a Memory of Perception , and the Recollection of Ideas .
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... instance called by friendship ; and to which I am still urged by a hope dear to every generous mind , the hope of being in some degree useful . The arro- gance and ambitions of a dictator are alike foreign to my heart . But to be an ...
... instance called by friendship ; and to which I am still urged by a hope dear to every generous mind , the hope of being in some degree useful . The arro- gance and ambitions of a dictator are alike foreign to my heart . But to be an ...
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... instances , by an increased attention to the perceptions acquired by means of the remaining perfect organs of sense , is evident in those who are born deaf or blind . It is not that the organs of sight or hearing are improved by use ...
... instances , by an increased attention to the perceptions acquired by means of the remaining perfect organs of sense , is evident in those who are born deaf or blind . It is not that the organs of sight or hearing are improved by use ...
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... every other faculty . The senses are the organs of informa- tion to the mind : and upon their evidence the learned and the vulgar rely with equal confidence . Yet the clearness , and , in many instances , the truth of their evi- dence , 50.
... every other faculty . The senses are the organs of informa- tion to the mind : and upon their evidence the learned and the vulgar rely with equal confidence . Yet the clearness , and , in many instances , the truth of their evi- dence , 50.
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... instances , appears quite extraor- dinary . The truth of what is here advanced will appear beyond all dispute , when we con- sider , that people , who , from their peculiar avocations , as hunters , sailors , & c . are ha- bitually ...
... instances , appears quite extraor- dinary . The truth of what is here advanced will appear beyond all dispute , when we con- sider , that people , who , from their peculiar avocations , as hunters , sailors , & c . are ha- bitually ...
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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.