Progressive Education: Observations on the first four years of childhoodLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - Education |
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... hope redouble as he approaches the appointed goal . During the weakness and inexperience of infancy , the child is not responsible for his own education ; the care of it is not entrusted to him ; but if it be true that the proper task ...
... hope redouble as he approaches the appointed goal . During the weakness and inexperience of infancy , the child is not responsible for his own education ; the care of it is not entrusted to him ; but if it be true that the proper task ...
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... hope redouble as he approaches the appointed goal . During the weakness and inexperience of infancy , the child is not responsible for his own education ; the care of it is not entrusted to him ; but if it be true that the proper task ...
... hope redouble as he approaches the appointed goal . During the weakness and inexperience of infancy , the child is not responsible for his own education ; the care of it is not entrusted to him ; but if it be true that the proper task ...
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... Hope , never realized , is yet never entirely frustrated . Though he cannot attain perfection , he gains improve- ment : to be always striving after more than he can accomplish , is a part of his lot in this world . The great object of ...
... Hope , never realized , is yet never entirely frustrated . Though he cannot attain perfection , he gains improve- ment : to be always striving after more than he can accomplish , is a part of his lot in this world . The great object of ...
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... hope for this satisfaction ; for as social order imposes a certain limit upon whole classes of men , so does nature upon individuals . We find from an attentive observation of children that they are severally endowed with faculties ...
... hope for this satisfaction ; for as social order imposes a certain limit upon whole classes of men , so does nature upon individuals . We find from an attentive observation of children that they are severally endowed with faculties ...
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... hope of these intentions being fulfilled . This applies equally to every condition of life . No doubt in education , as in every thing else , some allowance must be made for the great diversities in the situations of men : indeed , were ...
... hope of these intentions being fulfilled . This applies equally to every condition of life . No doubt in education , as in every thing else , some allowance must be made for the great diversities in the situations of men : indeed , were ...
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