Normal Training: The Principles and Methods of Human Culture : a Series of Lectures Addresses to Young TeachersF.C. Brownell, 1860 - 156 pagine |
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acquisition actual æsthetic analogy analysis appropriate attainment attention beauty becomes cation certainty character child childhood classification conception condition conscious contemplation cultivation culture delight directed discipline distinct due season early effect elements elocution emotion endeavors English language error exact examination exer exercise expressive faculties external fact feeling forms furnished give guiding light habit human imagination impels influence instinct instruction instructor intel intelligence investigation judgment knowledge language laws of thought lect lesson memory ment mental action merely mind's modes natural theology objects observation perceptive faculties perfect philosophic pleasure practice present principle processes progress prompt pupils purely reason recognized reflective faculties regard relations render result science of logic secure seminaries sense sphere student study of nature successive suggestive susceptibility sympathy taste teacher tendency term text-book thought tion tracing true truth unconscious utterance whole words young mind
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Pagina 69 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Pagina 46 - They were busily replenishing their pockets with such pieces as struck their fancy, and stopping now and then to compare specimens, or each to examine his own more closely. Drawing near to the juvenile company of geologists, as their heads were clubbed together in earnest inspection of a specimen, the observer heard one exclaim, " Well, I do not think it is the right kind. For, you know, Mr. Holbrook said the way to spell granite was not granite, but ' mica, quartz, and feldspar.' Now, there is not...
Pagina 86 - ... matter of theoretic speculation on principles of taste, or is limited to the mere committing of rules to memory. Rhetoric, to become a useful branch of modern education, should embrace a gradually progressive course of exercises, embodying successively the facts of language, in the use of words and the construction of sentences ; it should include the practice of daily writing, for successive years ; frequent exercises in the logical arranging of thought for the purposes of expression, and the...
Pagina 35 - ... in processes which leave a residuum of living force, as a result on mental character. He knows well that no degree of exertion can command attention, by a mere act of will, at the moment ; that, by the law of the mental constitution, a train of circumstances must be laid before the desired result can be ensured ; that an exercise of will is not, in the natural analogies of mental action, a merely arbitrary act of self-determination ; but that, on the contrary, will is solicited by desire ; a...
Pagina 55 - The resemblances which comparison recognizes in objects, become the leading titles and significant designations of groups and classes. Intellect is thus freed from the burden of the endless and unsatisfactory task of wandering from object to object, in detail, without any conscious thread of connection or guidance, and without any suggestion of a definite end in view, in its wearisome mode of action. By the aid of classification, the chaos of disconnected individualities is converted into an orderly...
Pagina 21 - pliant hour " must be taken for all processes of mental budding, grafting, or pruning, as well as in those of the orchard. An early dip into the study of nature, will serve to saturate the whole soul with a love for it so strong as to insure the prosecution of such subjects for life. The season is auspicious ; the senses are fresh and susceptible ; the mind is awake ; the heart is alive ; the memory is retentive ; nature is yet a scene of novelty and delight ; and application is a pleasure. The...
Pagina 91 - My daughter," says an affectionate mother, " wishes to learn drawing ; and Mr. Blank is getting up a class ; and I think I shall let her join. Mr. Blank's drawing is no great things, to be sure. But a little notion of drawing can do my daughter no harm, at least ; and, perhaps, she may take a liking for it ; and then she can find a better teacher, when it will be worth while to have one.
Pagina 82 - ... of instruction to which we now refer. In many schools, the young pupil never has his attention called, definitely or consciously, to the fact that the letters of the alphabet are phonetic characters, the whole value of which consists in the sounds which they represent : in many, he may pass through the whole course of instruction without being once called to practice the constituent elementary sounds of his own language : in very many, there is no attempt made to exercise and develop, modify,...
Pagina 68 - ... primitive telegraphic apparatus of audible and visible signs, man is enabled to put himself in communication with his sympathetic, intelligent, and rational fellowbeings,: — to reveal to them the workings of his mind, and disclose the inmost secrets of his heart. Speech and Writing. — Disciplined and perfected by art and skill, and aided by ingenious and asiduous educational cultivation, man's primitive power of utterance and expression, ultimately manifests itself in the consummated forms...
Pagina 62 - It is the same expressive power, in its more genial forms, which lulls the youthful reader into the dreamy repose of the pastoral scenes of the eclogue, where " Every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.