Hints to mothers, on the cultivation of the minds of children, in the spirit of Pestalozzi's method, by a foreigner

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1823 - 66 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 49 - There's not a plant or flower below, But makes thy glories known; And clouds arise and tempests blow By order from thy throne. 6 Creatures as numerous as they be, Are subject to thy care; There's not a place where we can flee, But God is present there.
Pàgina 6 - ... the tender mind a desire and a love for instruction. The affections alone are the cause of all knowledge^ what we do not love, we scarcely ever attain. / When a child can .-pretty well pronounce words and short sentences, his Mother chooses some object likely to interest him ; shews him the whole of it, lets him try distinctly to repeat the name of it ; then analyzes it, by simply naming all its essential properties, as form, colour, weight. The object is handled, looked at in every direction,...
Pàgina 28 - The sums contained in the single rows of both columns are stated. 1st row contains 2 2d - - - - 3 3d - - - - 4 4th - - - - 5 5th - --- 6 6th - - - - 7 7th - - - - 8 8th - - - - 9 9th - - - - 10 Questions.
Pàgina 24 - The angel of courtship has sunk into a woman; and that woman will be valued principally as her fondness lies in retirement, and her pleasures in the nursery of her children. And woe to the mother who is obliged to abandon her children during the greater part of the day to hirelings...
Pàgina 10 - ... done, and the Child what he has tried to do. In this manner they gradually proceed to lines, three, four, six times as long. Single lines may then be united into the various angles, not however advancing one step, until he can name each sort of angles, and imitate them pretty correctly on the slate. FORM and LANGUAGE must always go hand in hand, as this will give to the Child the important habit, in which he cannot be too early initiated, of expressing himself on all occasions readily and correctly....
Pàgina 36 - Mothers, in their infancy, not been left under such guidance, had their hearts and their minds been purified, elevated, and rightly directed, they could not have entertained these mistaken, paralyzing, and most pernicious notions. They would have proved, by experience, that the part assigned to them, though difficult, is yet delightful : they would have learned that the proper development of the infant requires powers and virtues, and an enlightened never-failing love, of which a Parent only is capable....
Pàgina 5 - ... handle the object, and notice whatever can be noticed respecting it by means of the senses. In order to increase his power of sight she frequently shows him more distant objects in nature, and leads him to observe many things essential to them. In a similar manner, the power of hearing and feeling may be excited. But whatever is done should be by slow, or rather imperceptible degrees. Particular care must be taken not to fatigue or disgust, by pressing him beyond his wishes or his powers ; every...
Pàgina 9 - ... pencil, the Mother may draw before him lines of different descriptions, which he may endeavour to imitate with chalk on the slate. This should be continued till he is able to draw a straight line in different directions. She then lets him try to draw a line twice as long, and parallel with the former ; the Mother and Child do the same thing, and always proclaim, the Mother what she has done, and the Child what he has tried to do. In this manner they gradually proceed to lines, three, four, six...
Pàgina 8 - ... have been produced ? The child himself may be led to take pleasure in these attempts, and to give an account of what he has done. After he has been exercised in this amusing and instructive occupation, he may go a step further, and be led to compare the size of figures, and to measure them by the eye. In the beginning, small triangular figures, cubes, &c. that fit well together, and of which larger triangles and cubes may be composed, will serve for this purpose. This exercise may be continued...
Pàgina 9 - ... hurrying from one exercise to another, but dwelling on each until it is perfectly mastered. As soon as the pupil is capable of managing a pencil, the mother may draw before him lines of different descriptions, which he may endeavour to imitate with chalk on the slate. This should be continued till he is able to draw a straight line in different directions. She then lets him try to draw a line twice as long, and parallel with the former ; the mother and child do the same thing, and always proclaim,...

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