Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, Volume 1This work presents a series of letters by the author which address education principles. The letters explore the topics of: perception, attention, conception, judgment, imagination & taste abstraction, and reflection. The author's first letter discusses the necessity of obtaining a knowledge of our intellectual faculties, and how this knowledge is acquired. A short analysis of the plan to be pursued is also included. |
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Page 206 - man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way."* Let
Page 255 - but the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour the names both of Greeks and Romans, present a dead uniformity of abject vices, which are neither softened by the weakness of humanity, nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes.
Page 223 - Praise is the salt that seasons right to man, And whets his appetite for moral good. Thirst of applause is virtue's second guard, Reason her first; but reason wants an aid^ Our private reason is a flatterer; Thirst of applause calls public judgment in, To poise our own, to keep an even scale, And give endanger'd virtue fairer play.
Page 139 - That I do, I allow not; for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, thai
Page 249 - he hath many helpers ; he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him : the poor, man slipped, and they rebuked him; he spake wisely, and could have no place. When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue; and
Page 18 - the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
Page 135 - only a concealed self-love, which cannot bear to be witness to the uneasiness which a present disappointment, or difficulty, or vexation, would cause to a darling child; but which yet does not scruple, by improper gratification, to store up for it future miseries, which the child will infallibly suffer, though it
Page 156 - the result of our own investigations; but are adopted implicitly in infancy and youth, upon the authority of others. When a child hears either a speculative absurdity, or an
Page 206 - the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And
Page 111 - that the education of a child will ever be conducted upon consistent principles. The idea of obedience ought to be early and firmly associated with ideas of security and happiness. And here again the imbecility and helplessness of infancy afford us the means of effecting our salutary purpose.