Some Thoughts Concerning EducationA. and J. Churchill, 1693 - 262 páginas A work by John Locke about education. |
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... Children ; and the early corruption of Youth , is now become so general a Complaint , that he cannot be thought wholly impertinent , who brings the Consideration of this Matter on the stage , and offers something , if it he but to ...
... Children ; and the early corruption of Youth , is now become so general a Complaint , that he cannot be thought wholly impertinent , who brings the Consideration of this Matter on the stage , and offers something , if it he but to ...
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... Children , would not have mended that Temper , nor have brought him to be in love with his Book , to take a pleasure in Learning , and to de- fire as he does to be taught more than those about him think fit always to teach him . • . 1 ...
... Children , would not have mended that Temper , nor have brought him to be in love with his Book , to take a pleasure in Learning , and to de- fire as he does to be taught more than those about him think fit always to teach him . • . 1 ...
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... Children as easily turned this or that way , as Wa- ter it self ; and though this be the prin- cipal part , and our main care should be about the inside , yet the clay Cot- tage is not to be neglected . I shall there- therefore begin ...
... Children as easily turned this or that way , as Wa- ter it self ; and though this be the prin- cipal part , and our main care should be about the inside , yet the clay Cot- tage is not to be neglected . I shall there- therefore begin ...
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... children : And this per- haps might be dispatched , all in this one short Rule , viz . That Gentle- men should use their Children , as the honest Farmers and substantial Yeo- men do theirs . But because the Mo- В 2 thers 7 Health thers ...
... children : And this per- haps might be dispatched , all in this one short Rule , viz . That Gentle- men should use their Children , as the honest Farmers and substantial Yeo- men do theirs . But because the Mo- В 2 thers 7 Health thers ...
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... Children's Constitutions , are either spoiled or harmed by Cockering and Tenderness . Tenderness . § . 5. The First thing to be taken care Warmth . of , is , That Children be not too warmly Clador Covered Winter or summer . The Face ...
... Children's Constitutions , are either spoiled or harmed by Cockering and Tenderness . Tenderness . § . 5. The First thing to be taken care Warmth . of , is , That Children be not too warmly Clador Covered Winter or summer . The Face ...
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Página 37 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Página 23 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 2 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Página 181 - ... several occasions, but especially if he travel, as that which helps a man often to express, in a few lines well put together, what a whole sheet of paper in writing would not be able to represent and make intelligible.
Página 23 - I do not doubt but it is, viz. that the difference to be found in the manners and abilities of men is owing more to their education than to any thing else...
Página 94 - ... one fit to educate and form the mind of a young gentleman is not every where to be found; and that more than ordinary care is to be taken in the , choice of him, or else you may fail of your end.
Página 31 - For Liberty and Indulgence can do no good to Children; their Want of Judgment makes them stand in need of Restraint and Discipline; and on the contrary, Imperiousness and Severity is but an ill Way of Treating Men, who have Reason of their own to guide them...
Página 203 - ... that he knew the limits of the four parts of the world, could readily point, being asked, to any country upon the globe, or any county in the map of England ; knew all the great rivers, promontories, straits, and bays in the world, and could find the longitude and latitude of any place, before he was six years old.
Página 45 - Esteem and Disgrace are, of all others, the most powerful Incentives to the Mind, when once it is brought to relish them. If you can once get into Children a Love of Credit, and an Apprehension of Shame and Disgrace, you have put into them the true Principle, which will constantly work, and incline them to the right.
Página 251 - There are a thousand other things that may need consideration; especially if one should take in the various tempers, different inclinations, and particular defaults, that are to be found in children; and prescribe proper remedies. The variety is so great, that it would require a volume; nor would that reach it. Each man's mind has some peculiarity, as well as his face, that distinguishes him from all others; and there are possibly scarce two children, who can be conducted by exactly the same method.