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Living Books
"Let their books be living books, the best that can be found in liberal supply and variety."
- 807
- 5,212
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
Becky
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Narration
"Let him narrate what he has read."
- 352
- 2,025
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3 weeks, 2 days ago
MissusLeata
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History
"It is a great thing to possess a pageant of history in the background of one's thoughts."
- 1,870
- 10,532
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2 days, 22 hours ago
ErinD
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Geography
"The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas, and to furnish the imagination with pictures."
- 390
- 2,169
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2 weeks, 5 days ago
jill smith
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Bible
"Their Bible lessons should help them to realise in early days that the knowledge of God is the principal knowledge, and, therefore, that their Bible lessons are their chief lessons."
- 315
- 1,879
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11 months ago
wayne.alishea
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Math
"Let his arithmetic lesson be to the child a daily exercise in clear thinking and rapid, careful execution."
- 934
- 6,650
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1 week ago
MissusLeata
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Science & Nature Study
"Never be within doors when you can rightly be without."
- 1,281
- 7,895
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1 week, 4 days ago
AmandaM
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Foreign Languages
"[A foreign language] should be acquired as English is, not as a grammar, but as a living speech."
- 294
- 1,799
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1 week, 3 days ago
Watkins_5
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Writing (Copywork & Composition)
"Composition is not an adjunct but an integral part of their education in every subject."
- 569
- 3,368
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1 week, 4 days ago
sarah2106
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Dictation (Spelling)
"The whole secret of spelling lies in the habit of visualising words from memory."
- 313
- 1,888
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2 months, 1 week ago
sarah2106
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English & Grammar
"Grammar, being a study of words and not of things, is by no means attractive to the child, nor should he be hurried into it."
- 642
- 3,960
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2 weeks, 1 day ago
Karen Smith
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Music & Art
"Let the children learn from the first under artists, lovers of their work."
- 492
- 2,962
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1 week ago
Harterhouse
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Handicrafts & Life Skills
"He practises various handicrafts that he may know the feel of wood, clay, leather, and the joy of handling tools, that is, that he may establish a due relation with materials."
- 216
- 1,302
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4 months ago
pangit
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Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare
"The best thoughts of the best minds taking form as literature, and at its highest as poetry."
- 537
- 3,527
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3 months, 4 weeks ago
Crystal
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Government & Economics
"They come into the world with many relations waiting to be established; relations with places far and near, with the wide universe, with the past of history, with the the social economics of the present . . . "
- 38
- 257
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1 year ago
csnover
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Beginning Reading
"Let us recognise that learning to read is to many children hard work, and let us do what we can to make the task easy and inviting."
- 198
- 1,191
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6 days, 3 hours ago
Tamara Bell
