The Michigan Teacher, Volume 8Payne & Whitney, 1872 - Education |
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Page 163 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Page 262 - They made us many soldiers. Chatham, still Consulting England's happiness at home, Secured it by an unforgiving frown, If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought, Put so much of his heart into his act, That his example had a magnet's force, And all were swift to follow whom all loved.
Page 47 - Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Page 1 - ... like immovable and impenetrable mountains of brass ; and impedes our liberty like walls of adamant, gates of brass, and bars of iron : whereas, all such representations suggest ideas as far from the truth as the east is from the west.
Page 232 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 184 - Activity is a law of childhood. Accustom the child to do — educate the hand. * 2. Cultivate the faculties in their natural order — first form the mind, then furnish it. 3. Begin with the senses, and never tell a child what he can discover for himself.
Page 287 - This is an action of trespass brought by the plaintiff to recover damages...
Page 232 - Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than men.
Page 13 - Lines drawn upon paper or upon the blackboard are not geometrical lines, since they have breadth and thickness. They represent geometrical lines. 25. A straight line is the shortest distance from one point to another point. 26. A curved line changes its direction at every point. 27. A broken line is not straight, but is made up of straight lines. 1. The line AB is a . 2. The line CD is a . 3. The line EF is a . 4.
Page 162 - ... more than eleventwelfths of all the children in the reading classes in our schools, do not understand the meaning of the words they read...