The Play Way: An Essay in Educational Method, Part 5 |
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... character , and creeds , doctrines , and opinions are all melted and remodelled . Nothing passes scatheless through the fire , and the world , as man has made it , is created anew . If this spirit of revolution could be summed up in a ...
... character , and creeds , doctrines , and opinions are all melted and remodelled . Nothing passes scatheless through the fire , and the world , as man has made it , is created anew . If this spirit of revolution could be summed up in a ...
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... character . The boy under the old system has no chance to be himself . We must make sure that any new system does not involve an equally artificial behaviour , but that the boys are free to be boys , frank and genuine in the pleasure ...
... character . The boy under the old system has no chance to be himself . We must make sure that any new system does not involve an equally artificial behaviour , but that the boys are free to be boys , frank and genuine in the pleasure ...
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... character to express themselves , and so bring about the natural perfection of their several abilities . He must so order his method that the group of boys under his guidance may act as a corporate body , influenced by communal ideas ...
... character to express themselves , and so bring about the natural perfection of their several abilities . He must so order his method that the group of boys under his guidance may act as a corporate body , influenced by communal ideas ...
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... character of the boy . Although the members of a class are seldom enough treated as individuals , it is even more rare to find a class treated as a ) conscious group . The boys are either addressed collectively , or they are set to do ...
... character of the boy . Although the members of a class are seldom enough treated as individuals , it is even more rare to find a class treated as a ) conscious group . The boys are either addressed collectively , or they are set to do ...
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... character of the play— he would be a poor master who hadn't - but any possible dissatisfaction felt at the presence of a grown - up playfellow is easily counterbalanced by the pride of having a grown - up fellow to play with . So much ...
... character of the play— he would be a poor master who hadn't - but any possible dissatisfaction felt at the presence of a grown - up playfellow is easily counterbalanced by the pride of having a grown - up fellow to play with . So much ...
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Page 23 - Into a sober pleasure ; when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies...
Page 353 - I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER WHEN I heard the learn' d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander' d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
Page 364 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Page 289 - Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes ; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Page 20 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 193 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 214 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Page 141 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : (Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak), — such was my process; — And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 354 - Sit, Jessica: Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins: Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.— Enter Musicians. Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, And draw her home with music.
Page 22 - Olympus' faded hierarchy! Fairer than Phoebe's sapphire-region'd star, Or Vesper, amorous glow-worm of the sky; Fairer than these, though temple thou hast none, Nor altar heap'd with flowers; Nor virgin-choir to make delicious moan Upon the midnight hours; No voice, no lute, no pipe, no incense sweet From chain-swung censer teeming; No shrine, no grove, no oracle, no heat Of pale-mouth'd prophet dreaming.