Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education, Volumen1

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H. Baldwin, 1783
 

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Página 5 - It is less important to keep him from dying than it is to teach him how to live. To live is not merely to breathe, it is to act. It is to make use of our organs, of our senses, of our faculties, of all the powers which bear witness to us of our own existence.
Página 127 - The first part of education, therefore, ought to be purely negative. It consists, neither in teaching virtue nor truth; but in guarding the heart from vice, and the mind from error.
Página 184 - ... time or other kill thofe with the prick of a pin, whom he durft not attack openly. In the fable of the lean wolf and the fat dog, inftead of deducing from it the leffon of moderation defigned, he is encouraged to licentioufnefs.
Página 118 - ... as it is not within the capacity, of a child. Nature requires children to be children before they are men. By endeavouring to pervert this order, we produce forward fruits, that have neither maturity nor taste, and will not fail soon to wither or corrupt. Hence it is we have so many young professors and old children. Childhood hath its manner of seeing, perceiving, and thinking, peculiar to itself; nor is there any thing more absurd than our being anxious to substitute our own in its stead.
Página xvi - All that we are not possessed of at our birth, and which we require when grown up, is bestowed on us by education. This education we receive from nature, from men, or from circumstances. The constitutional exertion of our organs and faculties is the education of nature ; the uses we are taught to make of that exertion constitute the education given us by men ; and in the acquisitions made by our own experience, on the objects that surround us, consists our education from circumstances.
Página 187 - ... afterwards, but then it is too late to obey the summons. How ardently must he wish on such an occasion to be able to read himself! He receives others, equally short and interesting: he sets immediately about deciphering them; sometimes receiving assistance, and at others denied it. By dint of study, he at length hammers out that he is invited to go to-morrow to eat cream; but where or with whom he cannot discover. How many efforts will he not make to find out the rest: fimile will learn to read...
Página 175 - By such means, also, it is, that we should endeavour to form that magazine of knowledge which should serve for his education in youth, and to regulate his conduct afterwards. This method, it is true, is not productive of little prodigies of learning, nor does it tend to...
Página 126 - The most critical interval of human life is that between the hour of our birth and twelve years of age. This is the time wherein vice and error take root, without our being...
Página vi - ... to learn. They are always expecting the man in the child, without reflecting what he is before he can be a man. It is to this branch of education I have applied myfelf; fo that, fhould my praflical fcheme be found ufelefs and chimerical, my obfervations will always turn to account.
Página 109 - Excessive severity, as well as excessive indulgence, should be equally avoided. If you leave children to suffer, you expose their health, endanger their lives, and make them actually miserable; on the other hand, if you are too anxious to prevent their being sensible of any kind of pain and inconvenience, you only pave their way to feel much greater; you enervate their constitutions, make them tender and effeminate; in a word, you remove them out of their situation as men, into which they must hereafter...

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