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... imagination and feeling . No one person could possibly endure such absorp- tion of life in labor unrelieved , and consequently two or three should unite in the undertaking in order to be able to relieve each other from the enormous ...
... imagination and feeling . No one person could possibly endure such absorp- tion of life in labor unrelieved , and consequently two or three should unite in the undertaking in order to be able to relieve each other from the enormous ...
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... imagination , and saves them from the reactions of personal pique . A ju- dicious teacher , who knows how to paraphrase as she reads , and to skip what is mere prosaic statement , ( and no one who cannot do this , is fit to read to ...
... imagination , and saves them from the reactions of personal pique . A ju- dicious teacher , who knows how to paraphrase as she reads , and to skip what is mere prosaic statement , ( and no one who cannot do this , is fit to read to ...
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... imagination , whose highest use is to represent the spiritual in the forms of beauty for our moral culture . In all the child's literature , with which our book - stores are flooded , there is very little which is truly imaginative ...
... imagination , whose highest use is to represent the spiritual in the forms of beauty for our moral culture . In all the child's literature , with which our book - stores are flooded , there is very little which is truly imaginative ...
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... imagination . A child whose vernacular is English will easily see that a bit is something bitten . off , and so is smaller than the mouth ; but that morsel means a bit is not so obvious to one who does not know that morsus , also , is ...
... imagination . A child whose vernacular is English will easily see that a bit is something bitten . off , and so is smaller than the mouth ; but that morsel means a bit is not so obvious to one who does not know that morsus , also , is ...
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... imagination of childhood , that we should be helped more than half way by blessed Nature herself . I often take an unfashionable walk inside the Mall on Sunday afternoon , when the Irish people bring their babes to play upon the green ...
... imagination of childhood , that we should be helped more than half way by blessed Nature herself . I often take an unfashionable walk inside the Mall on Sunday afternoon , when the Irish people bring their babes to play upon the green ...
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Page 14 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 13 - Children,' observes Miss Peabody, ' begin with loving others ; ' and she has added from the stores of her own experience among the young this aphorism of a wise philosophy : ' Children begin with loving others quite as intensely as they love themselves — forgetting themselves in their love of others — if they only have as fair a chance of being benevolent and self-sacrificing as of being selfish. Sympathy is as much a natural instinct as self-love, and no more or less innocent in a moral point...
Page 11 - ... of beauty and use, and the means of giving them opportunity to be perfected. On the other hand, while he knows that they must not be forced against their individual natures, he does not leave them to grow wild, but prunes redundancies, removes destructive worms and bugs from their leaves and stems, and weeds from their vicinity, — carefully watching to learn what peculiar insects affect what particular plants, and how the former can be destroyed without injuring the vitality of the latter....
Page 18 - ... for these. But reading and writing may come into Kindergarten exercises at once, if reading is taught by the phonic method, (which saves all perplexity to the child's brain,) and accompanied by printing on the slate. It then alternates with other things, as one of the amusements. We will describe how we have seen it taught. The class sat before a blackboard, with slates and pencils. The teacher said, " Now let us make all the sounds that we can with the lips : First, put the lips gently together...
Page 14 - Kindergarten, then, is children in society, — a commonwealth or republic of children, — whose laws are all part and parcel of the Higher Law alone. It may be contrasted, in every particular, with the old-fashioned school, which is an absolute monarchy...
Page 20 - First Nursery Reading-Book," and when she had taught the class to make all the words on the first page of it, she gave each of the children the book and told them to find first one word and then another. It was a great pleasure to them to be told that now they could read. They were encouraged to copy the words out of the book upon their slates. The "First Nursery Reading-Book" has in it no words that have exceptions in their spelling to the sounds given to the children as the powers of the letters....
Page 12 - Tending babies is an art, and every art is founded on a science of^>bservations; for love is not wisdom, but love must act according to wisdom in order to succeed. Mothers and nurses, however tender and kind-hearted, may, and oftenest do, weary and vex the nerves of children, in well-meant efforts to amuse them, and weary themselves the while. Froebel's exercises, founded on the observations of an intelligent sensibility, are intended to amuse without wearying, to educate without vexing.
Page 18 - ... utensils, etc., because then the children will see how to begin and proceed, and are not discouraged by the mechanical perfection of their model. Drawing ought always rather to precede reading and writing, as the minute appreciation of forms is the proper preparation for these. But reading and writing may come into Kindergarten exercises at once, if reading is taught by the phonic method, (which saves all perplexity to the child's brain,) and accompanied by printing on the slate. It then alternates...
Page 20 - ... dot and with a tail. At first only one word was the lesson, and the letters were reviewed in their divisions of lip-letters, throat-letters, tooth-letters, voice-letters. The latter were sounded the Italian way, as in the words arm, egg, ink, oak, and Perw. This teacher had Miss Peabody's " First Nursery ReadingBook," and when she had taught the class to make all the words on the first page of it, she gave each of the children the book, and told them to find first one word and then another. It...
Page 10 - ... to its own sweet will, at all times when not under direct instruction, — necessarily, in her case, on condition of its being perfectly quiet; and this one thing makes this primary school the best one in Boston, both as respects the attainments of the scholars and their good behavior. Kindergarten means a garden of children, and Froebel, the inventor of it, or rather, as he would prefer to express it, the discoverer of the method of Nature, meant to symbolize by the name the spirit and plan...