Category: Parenthood & Family Relations
I have been asked to undertake one section of a book on the education of girls, and to confine myself, as far as possible, to the intellectual aspects of education, leaving to others the task of dealing with the physical and moral aspects. I shall try to keep within the assign...
As a branch of formal instruction, we begin with reading. A more aggravating subject of dispute can hardly be found than that which relates to the teaching of reading. The pure...
8. PART IV. ÆSTHETICS.The power of music over the emotional life has ever been felt; in many ways it is opposed to thought, if we regard it from the standpoint of the listener, who yields himself up...
7. PART III. SCIENCE.II. The imaginative, during which the developing mind is more accustomed to dwell on mental images, is less passive to impressions, more active in calling them up, in fashioning...
6. PART II. MATHEMATICS.Once the teacher would have set the child down to a slate, taught it to count, and write down the figures, and work sums in addition and subtraction, and then to learn the multi...
4. Part I., the humanities, should throughout the whole course berepresented in all its branches; to it belong specially the _cultur-studien_. I think of some miserable starved specimens of girls I have known, fed upon an almost unmixed diet...
3. PART IV. ÆSTHETICS.I have been asked to undertake one section of a book on the education of girls, and to confine myself, as far as possible, to the intellectual aspects of education, leaving to o...
1. PART I. HUMANITIES.2. PART III. SCIENCE.