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Some Thoughts Concerning Education - Page 42
by John Locke - 1880 - 364 pages
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Source Book in the Philosophy of Education

William Heard Kilpatrick - Education - 1923 - 408 pages
...that is on either Hand, is the great Art; and he that has found a Way how to keep up a Child's Spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to...in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education." Locke, Education (Cambridge, 1892 1), pp. 25 f., 29 f. 549. THE ILL EFFECT OF PLAY "Let it then be...
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Drama in Education, Theory and Technique

Grace Sloan Overton - Drama in education - 1926 - 318 pages
...response as will make the process of learning an easy and natural one. "He that has found a way to keep a child's spirits, easy, active, and free ; and yet,...in my opinion, got the true secret of education." 10 The individual responds to dramatic presentation because his interest grows out of certain fundamental...
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The Correspondence of John Locke and Edward Clarke, Volume 4

John Locke - Biography & Autobiography - 1927 - 642 pages
...and free, and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to drive him to things that are uneasy to him ; he, I say,...has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education. The usual lazy and short way by correction, and the rod, which is the only instrument of government...
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Educational Foundations: A Text Book for the Professional Teacher, Volume 22

Education - 1911 - 696 pages
...they will be well observed when once made. "He that has found a way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to...in my opinion, got the true secret of education." 8. INDIVIDUALITY OF THE CHILD. — "God has stamped certain characters upon men's minds, which, like...
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Catholic Educational Review, Volume 19

Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...have to do, sport and play too."30 "He that has found a way," he adds, "to keep up a child's spirit easy, active, and free; and yet, at the same time,...contradictions has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.'"1 Eewards and punishments are needed to hold children in the path of duty, but these must...
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The Correspondence of John Locke and Edward Clarke, Volume 4

John Locke - Biography & Autobiography - 1927 - 640 pages
...is on either hand, is the great art ; and he that has found a way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active, and free, and yet, at the same time,...restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to drive him to things that are uneasy to him ; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions,...
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Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman

Joseph Maier, Chaim Isaac Waxman - Social Science - 1983 - 364 pages
...his friends. "The true Secret of Education," Locke writes, is to know "how to keep a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time,...him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw to things that are uneasy to him" (Thoughts, §§51, 46; also see §65). large part in the intellectual...
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John Locke

Reinhard Brandt - Philosophy - 1981 - 248 pages
...friends. "The true Secret of Education," Locke writes, is to know "how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time,...and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him." (Thoughts, §§ 51, 46; also see § 65) Curiosity and a spirit of playful inquiry are not encouraged...
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The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American ...

Thomas L. Pangle - Philosophy - 1990 - 344 pages
...— is a far cry from Christian humility: he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time,...has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education. (STCE 46; cf. 63) One uncovers the first clue to this "secret" when one takes proper note of how soon...
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The Mantle of Maturity: A History of Ideas About Character Development

Christie W. Kiefer - Psychology - 1988 - 260 pages
...and tame ... very seldom attain to any thing.... He that has found a way how to keep a child's spirit easy, active, and free, and yet at the same time to restrain him from many things he has a mind to do... has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education. (Locke 1692:35) There were, then, three...
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