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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... opinion and in conduct , which extort the pity of the wise , and the censures of the severe . To it we owe the motley absurdities , which , under the name of Novels , deprave the taste , and corrupt the affections , of the youthful ...
... opinion and in conduct , which extort the pity of the wise , and the censures of the severe . To it we owe the motley absurdities , which , under the name of Novels , deprave the taste , and corrupt the affections , of the youthful ...
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... opinion , and the creature of imitation . But if imi- tation is made to supply the use of reason , is it probable , that the early associations will be such as to lead the mind to choose the brightest patterns of virtue ? Alas ! ex ...
... opinion , and the creature of imitation . But if imi- tation is made to supply the use of reason , is it probable , that the early associations will be such as to lead the mind to choose the brightest patterns of virtue ? Alas ! ex ...
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... opinion of its own exquisite sensibility . But what is the sensibility that is not under the in- fluence of benevolence ? Let those who pique themselves upon the possession of this amiable quality , try it by the test I have given . Let ...
... opinion of its own exquisite sensibility . But what is the sensibility that is not under the in- fluence of benevolence ? Let those who pique themselves upon the possession of this amiable quality , try it by the test I have given . Let ...
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... opinion , upon a slight and partial investigation of any subject what- ever it is misconception that , in many in- stances , gives rise to prejudice and to in- justice . As accurate conception is alike necessary to the acquirement of ...
... opinion , upon a slight and partial investigation of any subject what- ever it is misconception that , in many in- stances , gives rise to prejudice and to in- justice . As accurate conception is alike necessary to the acquirement of ...
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... opinion that it has obtained any knowledge from these exercises . Let them be looked upon as they really are - mere materials , which are to be made use of at the proper period . Of real use they will certainly be found ; they will be ...
... opinion that it has obtained any knowledge from these exercises . Let them be looked upon as they really are - mere materials , which are to be made use of at the proper period . Of real use they will certainly be found ; they will be ...
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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.