This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...for themselves, and begets that independent wisdom without which their heaped-up knowledge is an encumbrance." "The aim should be," says a very able writer, " to unfold, and discipline, and strengthen the minds of pupils, to inspire them with a love of knowledge, and to improve their faculties for acquiring it, and not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...for themselves, and begets that independent wisdom without which their heaped-up knowledge is an encumbrance." "The aim should be," says a very able writer, " to unfold, and discipline, and strengthen the minds of pupils, to inspire them with a love of knowledge, and to improve their faculties for acquiring it, and not merely to load and stuff them with a certain quantity of knowledge, which is only power when it is living, firmly grounded, reproducible and expansive." " Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed whole, and others to bo chewed and digested."--Bacon. Another author says: "Most parents, of whatever rank or condition, fancy they have done all they had to do, when they have had their children taught such things as custom requires that persons of their class should learn; although with a view to the formation of character, the main end and object of education, it would be almost as reasonable. to read a treatise on botany to a flower-bed, under the notion of making the plants grow and blossom." "We have become too officious in our helps to children," says an able contributor to the North American Review. "Enough is not left to the workings of nature, and to impressions and hints too exquisite and delicate for any hands but hers. With a vain and vulgar ignorance, we distort the character she was silently and slowly moulding into beauty, till it is formed to our narrow and false taste." Anxious lest the clearness of their reason should be dimmed, their minds are never left to work their way through the obscure; but ever-burning lights are held up before them, which dazzle and bedim the mental vision. Early and constant attention to books has its moral influence. Mirthfulness m...
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Add this copy of Joy and Care, a Friendly Book for Young Mothers... to cart. $48.70, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
