Progressive Education: Observations on the first four years of childhoodLongman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - Education |
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... thing , their affection assumes an air of disinterestedness . When we see a young child , fresh from the hands of his Creator , noble , from the promise he gives for the future , and interesting , from the character he already displays ...
... thing , their affection assumes an air of disinterestedness . When we see a young child , fresh from the hands of his Creator , noble , from the promise he gives for the future , and interesting , from the character he already displays ...
Page xxi
... thing , we must not conclude that we can do nothing . Unknown to us , nay , even in spite of us , many causes are constantly at work ; but there are also many regular and kindly influ- ences , the employment of which is in our own power ...
... thing , we must not conclude that we can do nothing . Unknown to us , nay , even in spite of us , many causes are constantly at work ; but there are also many regular and kindly influ- ences , the employment of which is in our own power ...
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... thing in return ; without hoping for any plea- sure equal to that which he confers . At this epoch I shall again introduce children ; not as being themselves the object of education , but as the means of improving and elevating their ...
... thing in return ; without hoping for any plea- sure equal to that which he confers . At this epoch I shall again introduce children ; not as being themselves the object of education , but as the means of improving and elevating their ...
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... he had hoped to effect ; -everything becomes fainter , loses its brightness , and is obscured in the distance . We see that things can go on without us , and we detach our affections , not only from them , xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... he had hoped to effect ; -everything becomes fainter , loses its brightness , and is obscured in the distance . We see that things can go on without us , and we detach our affections , not only from them , xxviii INTRODUCTION .
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... thing against the possibility of an eternal progress in the faculties of the soul . This progress requires , indeed , the concurrence of the will : those who do not penetrate beyond the exterior of things , remain for ever occupied with ...
... thing against the possibility of an eternal progress in the faculties of the soul . This progress requires , indeed , the concurrence of the will : those who do not penetrate beyond the exterior of things , remain for ever occupied with ...
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