The Importance of Educating the Infant Poor from the Age of Eighteen Months to Seven Years. Containing an Account of the Spitalfields Infant School, and of the New System of Instruction There Adopted. ... Second Edition, with Considerable AdditionsW. Simpkin & R. Marshall, Goyder, printer, 1824 - 2 pages |
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... thought of for the last century . In confirmation of this as- sertion , I would state , that all instruction is , and must be , received in a state of humility . This can be proved by every day's experience . For example , take a person ...
... thought of for the last century . In confirmation of this as- sertion , I would state , that all instruction is , and must be , received in a state of humility . This can be proved by every day's experience . For example , take a person ...
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... thought of a moment too soon . It may now be proper for me to show to whom the public are indebted , for the esta- blishment of the first Infant School . I do not know with whom the idea first origi- nated , nor do I think it is of much ...
... thought of a moment too soon . It may now be proper for me to show to whom the public are indebted , for the esta- blishment of the first Infant School . I do not know with whom the idea first origi- nated , nor do I think it is of much ...
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... thought that they would tend to encourage the poor to marry , without considering whether they possessed the means of supporting their offspring . From what I know of the poor , I am in- clined to believe that Infant Schools would have ...
... thought that they would tend to encourage the poor to marry , without considering whether they possessed the means of supporting their offspring . From what I know of the poor , I am in- clined to believe that Infant Schools would have ...
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... thought and affection , and even conscience itself . Lastly , every argument that can be brought forward in support of education in general , and the National and British systems in par- ticular , may be brought forward in support of ...
... thought and affection , and even conscience itself . Lastly , every argument that can be brought forward in support of education in general , and the National and British systems in par- ticular , may be brought forward in support of ...
Page 40
... in view , in Infant Schools , is to make the children happy , as well as to instruct them , so it is thought 40 ON INFANT EDUCATION . A General Mode of Teaching the Alphabet, whereby Childron may say it in fifteen minutes.
... in view , in Infant Schools , is to make the children happy , as well as to instruct them , so it is thought 40 ON INFANT EDUCATION . A General Mode of Teaching the Alphabet, whereby Childron may say it in fifteen minutes.
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Page 61 - For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Page 66 - JESUS answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 201 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 147 - The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 155 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 146 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 67 - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 60 - And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren : and they hated him yet the more.
Page 62 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ? And his brethren envied him ; but his father observed the saying.
Page 67 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?