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Besides, we can examine it more calmly, then. nature games The teacher will thus be acting with the nature games consent of his employers, in almost

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any part of our country, in endeavoring to influence his pupils to perform moral duties, not merely from worldly motives, nor from mere abstract principles of right and wrong, but _from regard to the authority nature games of God_.

Boys, like men, must be gradually prepared for power, and they must exercise it

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only

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so far as they are prepared. Resolve as deliberately as you please; but be sure

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to keep your resolution, whether nature games a wise one or an

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games unwise one, after it is once made. _Emily. Construction and use. Measures. The gentlemen who originally interested themselves in its establishment,

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had mainly in view the exertion, by the Principal, of a decided moral and religious influence over the hearts of the pupils. And if by chance any family should be thus called upon, that had heretofore

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nature games nature games been captious or complaining, or disposed to be jealous of the higher importance or influence of other families,--that spirit would nature games

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be entirely softened and subdued by such an interview with their new instructer at their own fireside, on the evening

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games the commencement nature games of his labors. The hour is divided nature games as the first hour

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is, and the bell is rung in the nature games same way, i.

) Then follows two quarter hours, appropriated

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like those heretofore described, the first to a General Exercise, the second to a Recess. Two individuals nature games might be appointed nature games nature games at the nature games beginning nature games of the week, who should feel it their business to observe particularly the course of things from day to day, with reference to the report. Thus according to their religious observances, nature games a certain day will be proclaimed _Tabu_, that is, nature games nature games one upon which there is to be no work, or no going out. "You may take your Bibles. nature games That he may occupy this field, therefore, to the best advantage, it is necessary that he should first thoroughly explore

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nature games it. "Sometimes," added a third, "we run against the scholars who are sitting in their seats. 2.

There may, alas! be some cases, where the use of the Scriptures is altogether forbidden in school. Far from it. There being six half hours in the forenoon, and one of nature games them ending at the close of school, and another at the nature games recess, only _four_ of these _rests_, as a military nature games man would call them, would be necessary; and four, of two minutes nature games each, would make eight

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nature games minutes. " "Looked over sums," and various other answers are perhaps given. The object of a school is not to take children out of the parental hands, substituting the

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watch and guardianship of a stranger, for the natural care of father and mother. nature games nature games But I have detained nature games you long enough now. The result was, that they discovered the

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guilty individuals, ascertained the amount of mischief done nature games by each, and sent to the selectmen a message, by which they agreed to pay a sum equal to three times the value of the injury sustained. * nature games * * * * We come now nature games to nature nature games games consider the particular measures to be adopted, in giving instruction.

"Well, I nominate William Jones. It is the motive of a vast number of the actions which nature games are performed in this world. Unpleasant associations become connected nature games with the management of the nature games school, and the scholars are prepared to do wrong with less reluctance, since the consequence is only a repetition of what they nature games are obliged to see every day. This is to be done by seizing upon those peculiar emergencies, which will arise in the course of the administration of a school, and which each teacher must watch nature games nature games for, and discover himself. II III IV nature games nature games V +-------------+--------------------+-----------------+

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nature games | Grammar. "Perhaps it depends a little upon the question whose hat it was. "Their motive was to help their classmate out

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of his difficulties; that is a good feeling, certainly. There is no ingenious reasoning on the part of the teacher, no happy illustrations; no apparatus, nature games no diagrams.

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Rights of Committees, Trustees, or Patrons, in the control of the school. nature games You will observe that in transacting this business, very little is actually done by myself, except making the ultimate decision.

If the reader nature games nature nature games nature games games has, in nature

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own school, a greater or a less number, he can easily correct the above, so as to adapt it to his own case, and

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ascertain the portion, which may justly be nature games appropriated to each pupil. nature games It is, in fact, the pleasure of exercising power.

An attachment

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to the institution and to the

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duties of it, will give the teacher a very strong hold upon the community of mind which nature games nature games exists there. _Third Hour--Mathematics. A bell is always rung _five minutes before the nature games time_ for closing the recitation, to give the teachers notice that their nature games nature games time is nature games nearly expired, and then again _at the time_, to give notice to new classes

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to take their places. Most certainly, I should do so, as it would plainly be my duty to do it. Now this is wrong. "Suppose it was

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his own hat, nature games would he have been right? Has a boy a right to do what he pleases with his own nature games hat?" "Yes nature games sir," "Yes

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sir," "No sir," "No sir," answered the boys confusedly. It must be deliberate; generally better after a little delay. If any thing like the plan I have suggested for allowing rests of a minute or two, every half hour, should be adopted, it will mark off the forenoon into parts, which ought to be precisely and carefully observed. But they ought to be watchful; and the teacher ought to feel and acknowledge nature games their authority, on all questions connected with the education of their children. "The old school-house is now torn down, and a large brick house takes nature games the place of it. Let him ascertain

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also, what progress they have made in Arithmetic,--how many can readily perform the elementary processes, and what number need nature games instruction in these.

For instance, if a little class are to be

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taught simple nature games addition, after the process is once explained, which may be done, perhaps, in two or three lessons, they will need many days of

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patient practice, to render it familiar, to impress it firmly nature games in their recollection, and to enable them to work with rapidity. The reports then of those who remained standing, were called for; first, those who had whispered only once were requested to sit; then those nature games who had whispered more than once, and less than

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five times, &c. " As he said this, many hands were successively nature games raised, and at last, directions were given for them to begin to

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games write. After hearing all these nature games lessons recited, with my remarks in addition, you will

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be the better able to understand the subject, and then I shall bring nature games in a newspaper now and then,

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nature games nature nature games games and keep you acquainted with the progress nature games of the affair. nature games And here on account of the comparative smallness of nature games the number under the parent's care, the evil is so much

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diminished that it is easily borne. Abbott, I think I have time for some more studies. Let several of your number be chosen nature games a Committee to prepare, statedly--perhaps as often as once a week,--a written report of the state of the school. The faculty do not know what you wish in this respect, in regard to

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the new accommodations which the nature games Trustees nature games have now provided for you,

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and which you are soon to enter. Whenever the parents, or the committee, or the trustees express, however mildly and properly, their wishes in regard to the manner in which they desire to have their own work performed, their pride is at once aroused. Now there is no other plan which will not be attended with very serious difficulty, but I am willing to adopt the one which will be pleasantest to yourselves, if it will be likely to accomplish nature games the object. The teacher may now, if be pleases, after the majority of the class have gone, hear the reasons nature games of those who were unprepared,

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and look for the errors of those whose work was incorrect; but it is better nature games to spend as little time as possible, in such a way.

I need not say that the following was the writer's first attempt at composition, and nature games that it nature games is printed nature games without alteration. It would

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be wrong indeed to use any subterfuge, or duplicity of any kind,

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to conceal nature games your object,--but you are not bound to nature games explain it, and

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in the many changes which you will be compelled to make, in the course of the first week, for various purposes, you may include many of these, without explaining particularly the design or intention of any of them. nature games

Difficulties. If it then turns out that the individual is ordinarily a well-disposed boy, all is right, and if he proves to be habitually disobedient nature games nature games

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and troublesome, the lenity and forbearance exercised at nature games first, will facilitate the effect aimed at by subsequent measures. In a few days, he will have another, and thus the plan may be gently and gradually nature games introduced. The object nature games of the teacher should nature games be to smooth the path, not much more than barely enough to enable the pupil

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In describing

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the order nature games of daily exercises, I alluded to the _sections_ which assemble in the last hour of the school. ' "We turned our horses towards the door, and as we were nature games nature
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MARKS OF A BAD SCHOLAR. nature games Can any one tell what it is?" No one replied. Under nature games nature nature games games this double burden, many a young geometrician sinks discouraged. When a page of writing could not pass, a brief remark, calling the attention

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of the nature games pupil to the nature games faults which prevented nature games it, was sometimes made in nature games pencil at the bottom of the page. And yet a great many nature games

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teachers take a course as absurd and unjustifiable as this would be. A man may easily produce such a state of feeling in his school-room,

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that to address even nature games the gentlest reproof to any individual, in the hearing of the next, would be a most nature games nature games nature games severe punishment; and on the other hand, he may so destroy that sensitiveness, that his vociferated

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reproaches will be as unheeded as the idle wind. Most certainly, nature games I should do so, as it would plainly be my duty to do it. The first thing which will be necessary, will be an open and thorough exposure nature games of all which has been wrong, and this you know will be unpleasant. But then independently of the _advantages_ which may be expected to result from the practice

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daily prayer nature games in school,--it would seem to be the imperious _duty_ of the teacher to adopt it. " He pauses and looks round upon the class. By the plan I have recommended, nature games of not attempting to

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remodel the school wholly at once, the teacher obtains time

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for noticing the pupils, and learning something about their individual characters. nature games

nature games Description of the _Moral Exercise_. nature games I have seen, nature games in such a case, a scolding and frowning master walk up and down before such a class, with a stern and angry air, commanding this one to stand back, and that to come forward, ordering one boy to put nature games down his book, and scolding at a second for having lost his place, and knocking nature nature games nature games games the knees of nature games another with his rule, because he was out of the line. All those things which are alike, should nature games nature nature games games be arranged together. It is astonishing how great an influence may be exerted over a child, by his simply knowing that his efforts are observed and appreciated. The plate

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is of tin, gilded, the border and the letters of the inscription being black. When the officer in attendance was ordered to clear the gallery,

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it was sometimes found to be a very troublesome and slow operation; for those who first went out, remained obstinately as close to the doors as possible, so as to secure the opportunity to come in again first, when the doors should

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be re-opened. The young ladies seem to forget, that the new comer must feel rather unpleasantly, in the nature games midst of a hundred persons, to whom she is wholly a stranger, and with no one nature games to speak to. These general nature games remarks produced, as he expected, but little effect. "You cannot tell. There is a horrid sensation created by their ugly forms, that nature games makes me wish them all to Jericho. It is only necessary, here, to say, that _this_ nature nature games games point may be safely left to them, since the time is so small which is to be thus appropriated.

Now whatever nature games may be said in this chapter against unnecessary innovation and change, does not apply to efforts to secure variety in the details of daily study, while the great leading objects are steadily pursued. 1. " "Well, I should like to have you say the line beginning nine times one. No one is kept back by the rest. The teacher looked calmly at the mischief, and then asked how it happened.

In most cases, nature games the employers, knowing how

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sensitive nature games teachers very frequently are on this point, nature games nature games acquiesce in it,

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and leave them to themselves. nature nature games games If the former, nature games use it so long as it will last, simply to give variety and interest to your plans. nature games

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nature games There will be given you when you enter the school a blank schedule, in which

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the divisions of each forenoon for one

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week are marked, and in which your own employments for every half hour are to be written.

Unit figure?" _Boys. It is best that the pupils nature games nature games should walk as fast as nature games they can. This subject has already been discussed in the chapter on Instruction, where it has been shown that every wise teacher, nature games while he pursues the same great object, and adopts in substance the same leading measures at all times, will exercise nature games all the ingenuity nature games he possesses, and nature games bring all his inventive powers into requisition to give variety and interest to the minute details. How much is four times five?--Four _and_ nature games five? How much is seven times nine?--Seven _and_ nine? Eight times six?--Eight _and_ six? Nine times

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nature games seven?--Nine _and_ seven?" After asking a few questions of this kind, it was perceived that the pupils could tell much

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more readily what was the result when the numbers were to be multiplied, then when

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they were to be added. Accordingly they wait, on the morning of their induction into office, until their new subjects are all assembled, and then walk in nature
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games with an air of the highest dignity, and with the step of a king. The fact, which is a mere accident, that we affix very different significations to the same sound, nature games was unknown. In the recitation in Rhetoric, the teacher, after a time, observed that one or nature games two of the class nature games seldom answered appropriately the questions which came to them; but yet, were always nature games ready with some kind of answer--generally an exact quotation of the words of the book. nature games MUSIC. nature games Study card. Many teachers, even among those who have taken high rank, through the success with which they have labored in this field, have wasted much time, in attempting to do what can never nature games nature games be done; to form the character of those brought under their influence, after a certain uniform model, which they have conceived as the standard of excellence.

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In ordinary cases, business comes at first by slow degrees, and the beginner is introduced to the labors and responsibilities of his employment, in a very gradual manner. The teacher nature games must follow up the plan, after a few days, by other measures, for those who will not yield to such inducements as these. at the close nature games of each nature games nature nature games games half

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hour, and also five minutes before the close, to give the classes notice that the time for recitation is about to expire. Do it carefully. If reproved by her teacher, nature nature games games for negligence in any respects, she is generally provided with an abundance of excuses,

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games receives it as a piece of extreme severity. nature games In all probability, the formal announcement of this principle, and the endeavor to introduce it, by a sudden revolution, would totally fail.

It is perfectly right for him to give nature games nature games his opinion, in the tone and spirit of _recommendation or suggestion_, with a distinct understanding

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that nature games with his employer rests the power and the right to decide. Latin Grammar lesson. (8. When the scholars are allowed, as they very nature nature games games generally are, to come, when they please, to present their pens, some four, five or six times in a day--breaking in upon any business--interrupting any classes--perplexing and embarrassing the teacher, however he may be employed,--there is a very serious obstruction to the progress of the scholars, which is by no means repaid by the improvement in this branch.

" nature games "Proposed

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that we have locks upon our desks. His scholars are individuals, nature games and notwithstanding nature
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games all that the most systematic can do, in the way of classification, they must be attended

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to in a great measure, as individuals. This must not be attempted by professions and affected smiles, and still less by that sort of obsequiousness, common in such cases, which produces no effect but to make the

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bad boy suppose that his teacher nature games nature games is afraid of him; which, by the way, is, in fact, in

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nature games nature games such cases, nature games usually true. Or let us imagine the following scene nature games to have been the commencement of the introduction

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nature games of the principle of limited self-government, into a school. I think nothing has contributed more to its prosperity

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than the active interest which the scholars have always

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taken in its concerns, and the assistance nature nature games games they have rendered me in carrying my plans into nature games effect.

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* nature games * * * * 2. A full expression nature games of the Christian faith, would go far in

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advance

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of all here nature games presented.

"Very well," perhaps my reader will reply, "it is nature games surely something gained to awaken and continue interest in a dull study, for a quarter, or even a month. So numerous and so frequent are these communications that I seldom observe, when nature games I receive one from any individual for the first time, that it comes from one who

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nature games nature games has not written me before. I can illustrate this by describing a case which actually occurred. But it is both unwise and unjust, to neglect the many trees in your nursery, which by nature games nature games ordinary attention, may be made to grow straight and tall,

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and to bear good fruit, nature games that you

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may waste your labor upon a crooked stick, from which all your toil can secure

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nature games very little beauty or fruitfulness. 5. I thought

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it would be pleasanter to you

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to be reminded of your duty in that way. In nature games concluding what he said, he addressed the boys as follows: "Now boys, the question is, do you wish to abandon

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this habit, or not; if you do, all is

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well. One says that a part can go out at a time. Limits and restrictions to religious influence in school. nature games There is no ingenious reasoning on the part of the teacher, nature
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games nature games no happy illustrations; no apparatus, no diagrams.

Multiplicity of the objects of attention. What would, in ordinary cases, be the effect? It would certainly nature games be a very simple application; but its effect would be, to open an entirely new train of thought and nature games feeling for the boy. All the details of business are assigned to teachers, or to officers and committees appointed for the purpose. It will be dreadfully dark by and nature games

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by, won't it? We have given enough for a nature games specimen. Their principles, motives,

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and ruling passions are essentially the same.

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Under the latter, is included all the explanation, and assistance, and additional information, nature games nature games which the teacher may give his pupils, and, nature games under the former, such

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an _examination_ of individuals,

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as is necessary to secure their careful attention to their lessons. " "Have these boys nature games done right, or wrong?" "Right;" nature games nature games nature games "Wrong;" "Right;" answered their companions, variously. 'We were requested by a nature games very public-spirited

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individual nature games to mention once more the want of three nails, for bonnets in the entry. nature games