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Spencer's recommendation, indorsed in the Chicago Report, to the effect that object-lessons should, after a 'different fashion, 'be extended to a range of things far wider, and continued to a period far later than now. Not so: after any possible fashion.
The committee did excellent work in systematizing important matters and leaving minor arrangements to the local managers; in apportioning essential and discretionary subjects, and what was of special interest to its chairman the teaching of elementary geography and elementary social economy, and in particular the systematized object-lessons, embracing a course of elementary construction in physical science, and serving as an introduction to the courses for the examinations under the Science and Art Department.
Perhaps the archdeacon thought that the West was a sort of kindergarten, where children like The Babe are given, at small expense, object-lessons and exercises peculiarly adapted to young and plastic minds. In Central America certain tribes living by the seaboard throw their children into the surf, wherein they sink or learn to swim, as the Fates decree. Some sink.
I'll give you object-lessons. There's where the fun comes in." The first object-lesson brought Arthur to the gospel-hall managed by a gentleman whom he had not seen or thought of since the pleasant celebration of St. Patrick's day. Rev. Mr.
That is to say, in explaining to a child the general phaenomena of Nature, you must, as far as possible, give reality to your teaching by object-lessons; in teaching him botany, he must handle the plants and dissect the flowers for himself; in teaching him physics and chemistry, you must not be solicitous to fill him with information, but you must be careful that what he learns he knows of his own knowledge.
We had put the essential thought here insisted on into words, before object-lessons had acquired the impetus of the last and current year. 'The 'object lessons' of Pestalozzi and his numerous followers, had, in a good degree, one needed element they required WORK of the pupil's own mind, not mere recipiency.
We studied it mostly at noontime, and we had it illustrated as the children nowadays have "object-lessons," though our object was not so much to have lessons as it was to revive real history. Back of the schoolhouse rose a round hill, upon which, tradition said, had stood in colonial times a block-house, built by the settlers for defense against the Indians.
The passive mind receives images, which are limited to the objects presented; and which are "stored up" without any order. As a fact, every object may have infinite attributes; and if, as often happens in object-lessons, the origins and ultimate ends of the object itself are included among these attributes, the mind has literally to range throughout the universe.
She may have studied the more closely her lodger's habits, noting his constant care of his person, the way in which he used his knife and fork, the softness and cleanliness of his hands all object-lessons to her, for she broke out on her husband the day after her talk with the Englishman in the hansom cab with: "I want to tell ye that ye'll have to stop spatterin' yer soup around after this, John, dear.
"On such a full sea are we now afloat And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our' turtle"? Is it not edifying, too, to reflect that the timid man, encouraged by the object-lessons of Nature, given in pity of his simplicity, had contrived the only rafts the resources of his island made possible?
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