The Michigan Teacher: An Educational Monthly, Volume 7William Harold Payne Payne, Whitney & Company, 1872 - Education |
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Page 355 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Page v - The excellence of Brown's Grammars is very generally admitted, and notwithstanding the multitude of School Grammars which have come in competition with them, they have steadily advanced in public favor. In perspicuous arrangement, accuracy of definition, fullness of illustration, and comprehensiveness of plan, they stand unrivaled ; and are probably more extensively used throughout the United States than any other works on the subject.
Page 344 - ... manuscripts of Luther, Calvin, Beza, Melancthon, and others, foster an interest in the past. The .Swiss schools also excel in drawing. They understand both its practical bearing and its relation to general culture. Their skilled mechanics apply the art in drafting plans, forming decorative designs, and executing all nice work. They say that not the architect, builder, machinist, and inventor only must " draw," but that any craftsman, skilled in design, makes a better workman, whatever may be...
Page v - The Grammar of English Grammars is an invaluable book of reference, and every scholar should have a copy in his library. No teacher can afford to be without it, and it should be placed by the side of Webster and Worcester in every school.
Page 344 - In the girls' schools needle-work is taught to all. The Swiss believe in the dignity of labor, in the, system of apprenticeship, and the thorough mastery of some trade. The theory that labor is menial, and that the tools of a trade are badges of servility, is foreign to them. They are ingenious and industrious. They have learned that ignorance means waste and weakness, that education is economy, that brains help the hands in all work, multiplying both the value and productive...
Page 345 - Such a government can afford to trust the people. Hence there is a free press, free speech, free schools, freedom in religion, and freedom in traveling, no passports being required, and no examination of luggage ; no standing army, and no gendarmes ever brandishing the threatening hand of power, as elsewhere in Europe. There is, relatively, far less criminality here than in England. The fact just stated in the Swiss Times that, in the village of Illgow, containing...
Page viii - RAWLINSON'S MANUAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY. A Manual of Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Comprising the History of Chaldaea, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phoenicia, Syria, Judaea, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Parthia, and Rome.
Page 346 - Geneva, in like manner, honors its emblem — the eagle — by keeping a flock of eagles in a series of huge cages. Berne, while abounding in most beautiful modern edifices, still maintains its unique and historic character more than any other Swiss city. But education, the press, railroads, telegraphs, and a wise central government have conciliated the people of these twenty-two cantons. Though separate in race, religion, and language, they are one in national sympathy and interest, proud of their...
Page 345 - England spends more than five times as much on pauperism and crime as she does on education, and Switzerland spends seven times as much on education as she does on pauperism and crime.