Report on Education in Europe: To the Trustees of the Girard College for OrphansLydia R. Bailey, 1839 - 666 หน้า |
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admission Æneid arithmetic arrangement arts attend Bible boys branches burgher school charge chemistry classical colleges Cornelius Nepos course descriptive geometry director discipline division Dorothean drawing Edinburgh Edinburgh Academy eight elementary English establishment examination exer exercises five four hours French French language geography geometry German German language Girard College give Glasgow grammar Greek gymnasia gymnasium half past head master Heriot's Hospital institution intellectual intended knowledge language Latin lectures lessons letters manual labour mathematics ment method moral natural history natural philosophy normal school number of hours number of pupils objects occupied Orphan orphan-house Pforta physical practice present primary schools principles professors Prussia public instruction reading real school receive regulations religious instruction Report SCHULPFORTA second class secondary instruction seminary seven subjects superintendence taught teachers teaching third class three hours tion trigonometry twelve visited vocal music Weissenfels writing
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หน้า 659 - This favourite notion of filling boys with useful information is likely, we think, to be productive of some mischief. It is a caricature of the principles of inductive philosophy, which, while it taught the importance of a knowledge of facts, never imagined that this knowledge was of itself equivalent to wisdom. *Now it is not so much our object to give boys
หน้า 661 - ... subject to a succession of influences, some accidental, others regular; to see and remember what critical seasons of improvement have been neglected, what besetting evils have been wantonly aggravated by wickedness or folly. In short, the pupil may be furnished as it were with certain formulae, which shall enable him to read all history beneficially ; which shall teach him what to look for in it, how to judge of it, and how to apply it.
หน้า 658 - But it by no means shows that system to be useless, unless it followed, that when a man laid aside his Greek and Latin books he forgot also all that he had ever gained from them. This, however, is so...
หน้า 658 - ... of its early studies in the general liberality of its tastes, and comparative comprehensiveness of its views and notions. All this supposes indeed that classical instruction should be sensibly conducted ; it requires that a classical teacher should be fully acquainted with modern history and modern literature, no less than with those of Greece and Eome.
หน้า 659 - ... we admire in them may be produced with a somewhat different instrument. Every lesson in Greek or Latin may and ought to be made a lesson in English. The translation of every sentence in Demosthenes or Tacitus is properly an exercise in extemporaneous English composition ; a problem, how to express with equal brevity, clearness, and force, in our own Ian guage, the thought which the original author has so admirably expressed in his.
หน้า 657 - Expel Greek and Latin from your schools, and you confine the views of the existing generation to themselves and their immediate predecessors ; you will cut off so many centuries of the world's experience, and place us in the same state as if the human race had first come into existence in the year 1500.
หน้า 658 - ... most determine human character, there is a perfect resemblance in these respects. Aristotle, and Plato, and Thucydides, and Cicero, and Tacitus, are most untruly called ancient writers ; they are virtually our own countrymen and contemporaries, but have the advantage which is enjoyed by intelligent travellers, that their observation has been exercised in a field out of the reach of common men...
หน้า 654 - the individual, independent activity of the pupil is of much greater importance than the ordinary busy officiousness of many who assume the office of educators...
หน้า 595 - November to Palm-Sunday, and the other from two weeks after Palm-Sunday to the first of October. The intermediate periods are vacations. The branches of special theoretical instruction are as follows : First: Agriculture. General principles of farming and horticulture, ineluding the culture of the vine.
หน้า 658 - The study of Greek and Latin, considered as mere languages, is of importance mainly as it enables us to understand and employ well that language in which we commonly think, and speak, and write. It does this because Greek and Latin are specimens of language at once highly...