Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" ... for writing from dictation. I certainly never have examined little children who could spell so well; and that good spelling and good reading, and skill in the expression of written thoughts, go together, may be taken as an illustration of the fact... "
Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education: with Appendices - Page 80
by Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1848
Full view - About this book

The Teacher's visitor. Ed. by W.C.Wilson, Volumes 9-11

William Carus Wilson - 1848 - 978 pages
...together, may be taken as an illustration of the fact that to achieve excellence in any VOL. XI. c one subject of instruction in an elementary school,...their own words the substance of any simple portion of tie Gospel narrative, or of a parable or a miracle. In the upper classes they attempt to draw from...
Full view - About this book

Extracts from the Reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools: Intended ...

Inspectorate of Schools (England and Wales) - Elementary school teaching - 1852 - 348 pages
...but in spelling, and that, probably, of the best kind ; the subjects, and therefore language, of them more familiar than those commonly found in books used...knowledge. In the lower classes the children write ENGLISH COMPOSITION 217 out in their own words the substance of any simple portion of the Gospel narrative,...
Full view - About this book

The Teacher's journal of Sunday school education, Volume 1

Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 1854 - 276 pages
...the subjects, and therefore language, of them more familiar than those commonly found in books nsed for writing from dictation. I certainly never have...Miracle. In the upper classes they attempt to draw from snch passages of Scripture the instruction they are intended to convey, or they develope, with a practical...
Full view - About this book

Hints on government education in India, with special reference to school books

John Murdoch - Education - 1873 - 122 pages
...expressed it as his opinion that the slowness with which children in our elementary schools learn to read is in some degree to be attributed to the unwise concentration of the labours of the school on so few subjects : with these opinions we are disposed to concur." The following are some of the " General...
Full view - About this book

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1871 - 1230 pages
...his opinion — " The singular slowness with which the children of our National Schools learn to read is, in some degree, to be attributed to the unwise...the labours of the school on that single object." Both Dean Dawes and Mr. Moseley expressly attributed the success of the King's Somborne School to the...
Full view - About this book

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education

National Society for the Study of Education - Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...taught."' And again : "The singular slowness with which the children of our natipnal schools learn to read is in some degree to be attributed to the unwise concentration of the labors of the school on that single object." Purely knife-and-fork studies cease to be studies altogether...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF