Some Thoughts Concerning EducationA. and J. Churchill, 1693 - 262 páginas A work by John Locke about education. |
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Página 79
... Latin or Logick , or most of those Things Children are usually required to learn . §.74 . Children being more active and busie in that Age than any other Compulfion , Part of their Life , and being indifferent to any Thing they can do ...
... Latin or Logick , or most of those Things Children are usually required to learn . §.74 . Children being more active and busie in that Age than any other Compulfion , Part of their Life , and being indifferent to any Thing they can do ...
Página 99
... Latin and Greek need the Rod , when French and Italian needs it not ? Children learn to Dance whipping ; nay , A- and Fence . they apply rithmetick , Drawing , themselves well enough to without beating , which would make one su- fpect ...
... Latin and Greek need the Rod , when French and Italian needs it not ? Children learn to Dance whipping ; nay , A- and Fence . they apply rithmetick , Drawing , themselves well enough to without beating , which would make one su- fpect ...
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... Latin and Greek , how many Years are spent in it , and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose , I can hardly for- bear thinking , that the Parents of Children still live in fear of the School- masters Rod , which they look on ...
... Latin and Greek , how many Years are spent in it , and what a noise and business it makes to no purpose , I can hardly for- bear thinking , that the Parents of Children still live in fear of the School- masters Rod , which they look on ...
Página 175
... Latin and Logick only in your Thoughts . Learning must be had , but it the second place , as subservient only to greater Qualities : Seek out some - body , that may know how dif creetly to frame his Manners : Place him in Hands , where ...
... Latin and Logick only in your Thoughts . Learning must be had , but it the second place , as subservient only to greater Qualities : Seek out some - body , that may know how dif creetly to frame his Manners : Place him in Hands , where ...
Página 192
... Latin Tongue would easily be taught the same way if his Tutor , being constantly with him , would talk nothing else to him , and make him answer still in the same Language . But because French is a Living Lan- guage , and to be used ...
... Latin Tongue would easily be taught the same way if his Tutor , being constantly with him , would talk nothing else to him , and make him answer still in the same Language . But because French is a Living Lan- guage , and to be used ...
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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.