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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... mothers is entrusted the care of rational beings in the most important period of their existence ; the springs of human conduct are in their hands . From them must the nascent passions and affections of the heart receive their direction ...
... mothers is entrusted the care of rational beings in the most important period of their existence ; the springs of human conduct are in their hands . From them must the nascent passions and affections of the heart receive their direction ...
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... mothers , and members of society , could be equally well performed by means of those powers which they have in common with the brute creation ; then might the higher faculties of the soul be neglected with im- punity . To the wretched ...
... mothers , and members of society , could be equally well performed by means of those powers which they have in common with the brute creation ; then might the higher faculties of the soul be neglected with im- punity . To the wretched ...
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... mother , as it could have been by the most foolish nursery - maid . Children who are ac- customed to this species of constant super- intendence and prevention , have no induce- ment to the acquirement of those habits of attention ...
... mother , as it could have been by the most foolish nursery - maid . Children who are ac- customed to this species of constant super- intendence and prevention , have no induce- ment to the acquirement of those habits of attention ...
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... mother . " Here is a pretty box , mamma ; but it " won't open , all that I can do . " " That box , my dear , won't open by force ; " the lid is screwed on , and it must be turned " in such a manner as to take out the screw . " Observe ...
... mother . " Here is a pretty box , mamma ; but it " won't open , all that I can do . " " That box , my dear , won't open by force ; " the lid is screwed on , and it must be turned " in such a manner as to take out the screw . " Observe ...
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... mother have all their faculties so judiciously exer- cised , that their minds are ever in a state of preparation for the reception of new ideas . Every field - flower which they gather VOL . II . E in their walks , every pebble which ...
... mother have all their faculties so judiciously exer- cised , that their minds are ever in a state of preparation for the reception of new ideas . Every field - flower which they gather VOL . II . E in their walks , every pebble which ...
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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.