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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 22

CHAPTER XXII SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS A CURRICULUM PART III.—THE LOVE OF KNOWLEDGE           The Use of Books makes for Short Hours.—Considering that under the head of ‘Education by Books’ some half-dozen groups of subjects are included, with several subjects in each group, the practical teacher will be inclined to laugh at what will seem to him …

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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 20

CHAPTER XX SUGGESTIONS TOWARD A CURRICULUM (For children under Fourteen) PART I           Summary of Preceding Chapters.—I have left the consideration of a curriculum, which is, practically, the subject of this volume, till the final chapters; because a curriculum is not an independent product, but is linked to much else by chains of cause and …

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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 19

CHAPTER XIX WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUR INTIMACIES PART III.—VOCATION           I might trace the consummation of various other affinities in these two illustrious subjects, but space fails; I can only indicate the joy of pursuing the acquaintanceship, followed by the endless occupation for mind and heart, in that high intimacy which we call the Vocation of each …

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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 18

CHAPTER XVIII WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUR INTIMACIES PART II.—FURTHER AFFINITIES          Affinity for Material: Ruskin’s Opportunities.—Of the Affinity for Material, the joy of handling and making, Wordsworth says little, but Ruskin sent out feelers in this direction which began with ‘two boxes of well-cut wooden bricks’ and culminated, perhaps, in the road-making of the …

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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 17

CHAPTER XVII EDUCATION, THE SCIENCE OF RELATIONS: WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUT INTIMACIES: THE PRELUDE AND PRÆTERITA                “But who shall parcel out          His intellect by geometric rules,          Split like a province into round and square?          Who knows the individual hour in which          His habits were first sown, even as a seed?     …

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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 16

CHAPTER XVI HOW TO USE SCHOOL-BOOKS           Disciplinary Subjects of Instruction.—Having cleared our minds as to the end we have in view, we ask ourselves—‘Is there any fruitful idea underlying this or that study that the children are engaged in?’ We divest ourselves of the notion that to develop the faculties is the chief thing, and a …

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School Education Volume 3 Chapter 12

CHAPTER XII SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF MORAL TRAINING           Three Foundation Principles.—Three principles which underlie the educational thought of the Union,[1] and the furtherance of which some of us have deeply at heart, are:—(a) The recognition of authority as a fundamental principle, as universal and as inevitable in the moral world as is that of gravitation …

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