...formed with distinctness, our abstractions will be vague and our judgments and reasonings unstable. The first object then in education must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy; the second, to express with correctness the result of his observation. The practice of embodying in...

...formed with distinctness, our abstractions will be vague, and our judgments and reasonings unstable. The first object, then, in education, must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy j the second, to express with correctness the result of his observation. The practice of embodying...

...proposition, that " observation is the original basis of all knowledge, and that the first business in education must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy, and the second to express with correctness the result of his observations," and that we regard the...

...proposition, that " observation is the original basis of all knowledge, and that the first business in education must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy, and the second to express with correctness the result of his observations," and that we regard the...

...repeated 1 ." The great Swiss educator, Pestalozzf r said, at the close of the sixteenth century : " Observation is the absolute basis of all knowledge....among the best educators of our land, and it becomes all who assume the position of the teacher, to become familiar with this method of instruction. This...

...formed with distinctness, our abstractions will be vague, and our judgments and reasonings unstable. The first object then in education must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy; the second, to express with correctness the result of his observation. The practice of embodying in...

...CLASSES. BY A. S. WELCH, PRINCIPAL OP MICHIGAN 6TATE NORMAL SCHOOL. From PEBTALOZZT:—"Observation is the absolute basis of all knowledge. The first...must be to lead a child to observe with- accuracy; the second, to express with, correctness the result of his observations" Principles, without application,...

...quarter of the nineteenth century. He said: " Observation is the absolute basis of all knowledge. 1\\c first object then, in education, must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy; the second, to express with correctness the result of his observations." "The development of man commences...

...eighteenth, and died soon after the close of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. He said: " Observation is the absolute basis of all knowledge....must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy; the second, to express with correctness the result of his observations." " The development of man commences...

...language, the subject next in order. It was a favorite maxim of Pestalozzi, that" The first object in education must be to lead a child to observe with accuracy; the second, to express with correctness the result of his observations." Again, " ideas first, and...