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Living Books
"Let their books be living books, the best that can be found in liberal supply and variety."
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- 5,226
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1 week ago
momto3blessings
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Narration
"Let him narrate what he has read."
- 356
- 2,047
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6 days, 2 hours ago
Tamara Bell
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History
"It is a great thing to possess a pageant of history in the background of one's thoughts."
- 1,909
- 10,678
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2 days, 1 hour ago
momto3blessings
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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."
- 397
- 2,195
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1 week, 5 days ago
Tamara Bell
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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."
- 321
- 1,890
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
rhondajennings68
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Math
"Let his arithmetic lesson be to the child a daily exercise in clear thinking and rapid, careful execution."
- 954
- 6,709
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1 day ago
nachokaty
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Science & Nature Study
"Never be within doors when you can rightly be without."
- 1,302
- 7,981
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5 days, 21 hours ago
MissusLeata
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Foreign Languages
"[A foreign language] should be acquired as English is, not as a grammar, but as a living speech."
- 297
- 1,811
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5 months, 4 weeks ago
dzharper
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Writing (Copywork & Composition)
"Composition is not an adjunct but an integral part of their education in every subject."
- 576
- 3,392
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
Tamara Bell
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Dictation (Spelling)
"The whole secret of spelling lies in the habit of visualising words from memory."
- 317
- 1,901
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1 month ago
Virginia Norrington
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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."
- 662
- 4,054
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1 week, 3 days ago
momto3blessings
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Music & Art
"Let the children learn from the first under artists, lovers of their work."
- 500
- 2,987
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2 months ago
Alysee123
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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."
- 219
- 1,322
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dianapatrice
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Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare
"The best thoughts of the best minds taking form as literature, and at its highest as poetry."
- 544
- 3,554
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wings2fly
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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 . . . "
- 39
- 261
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9 months ago
Wings2fly
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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."
- 207
- 1,224
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2 days, 9 hours ago
retrofam