Some Old-fashioned EducationistsW. Green & Sons, 1907 - 108 pages |
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archery asked authority Bacon says baculum ball Ben Jonson Brinsley called Catechism centuries church classical club Colloquies conning by rote Cordery custom David Williamson Despauter dialogue discipline Dutch early Edinburgh English essay evidence exactness faculty father favour Francis Bacon fruit fulness gift give Glasgow grammar school Greek habit hath Holofernes human imitation intellectual intelligent interest James Melvill keep Kirkwood knowledge language Latin learner learning lessons lines Linlithgow literary Love's Labour's Lost Ludus Literarius master memory mental method mind modern moral mother tongue natural never observation Ovid Philoponus pilam play pleasure practice printed Professor reading ready recognised recta Reformation remarkable Roman numerals rule scholar scholastic schoolboy schoolmaster Scotch Scotland sense sermon Shakespeare speaking speech Spondens stage student talk teacher teaching tell things thinking thought truth turn UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA utterance virtue vocables Whately puts Williamson words writing youth
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Page 15 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 15 - First as was said, he must have some entrance into the language before he goeth. Then he must have such a servant or tutor as knoweth the country, as was likewise said.
Page 31 - But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before. But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the...
Page 11 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense : the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 17 - It is remarkable, that there is nothing less promising than, in early youth, a certain full-formed, settled, and, as it may be called, adult character. A lad who has, to a degree that excites wonder and admiration, the character and demeanour of an intelligent man of mature age, will probably be that, and nothing more, all his life, and will cease accordingly to be anything remarkable, because it was the precocity alone that ever made him so.
Page 29 - ... many, that perhaps would otherwise cooperate with him ; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his own ends. The third and greatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action ; which is trust and belief.
Page 31 - He that questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much; but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh ; for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself...
Page 19 - Therefore since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect, when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.
Page 29 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Page 31 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...