Principles of Education

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C. Scribner's sons, 1910 - 790 ページ
 

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494 ページ - state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. . . .
405 ページ - There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, Or for years or stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of this child.
646 ページ - Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire
495 ページ - yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
666 ページ - pleasures which the healthful exercise of the faculties gives. . . . Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw their own inferences. They should be told as little as possible, and induced to discover as much as possible.
288 ページ - Jack and Jill went up the hill, To get a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
614 ページ - the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.
473 ページ - imagination would soon find his own mind circumscribed, and contracted to a few favorite images, and the repetition of these would sooner or later produce that very monotony and barrenness, which had always haunted descriptive poetry in the hands of any but the patient worshippers of truth.
423 ページ - out of no quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin cob-webs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
705 ページ - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

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