Morning Exercises for All the Year: A Day Book for TeachersBeckley-Cardy Company, 1914 - 251 pages This book aims at a systematic and orderly presentation of the morning or opening exercise in the elementary school. The teaching of morals can usually be accomplished more effectively through an indirect method, rather than by set lessons or formal teaching. Character is largely a matter of habit, with a daily emphasis on right attitude and right conduct. When the birthdays of famous poets, statesmen, national heroes, or national events occur, the memory of their virtues naturally determines the topic of a lesson. Through concrete examples presented in story and verse, children learn to appreciate nobility of character and deed, thus arousing their admiration and aspiration. It is better to allow children to make their own inferences than to force the moral upon them. |
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... young French- man1 who crossed the seas to aid the colonies . He was among the first of those foreigners who showed the colonists that the love of liberty was as wide as the world . He came when hope was low , and his coming meant much ...
... young French- man1 who crossed the seas to aid the colonies . He was among the first of those foreigners who showed the colonists that the love of liberty was as wide as the world . He came when hope was low , and his coming meant much ...
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... young lawyer suggested to him that the profession to which he had devoted himself was overcrowded , the great man replied , " Young man , there is always room enough at the top . " Never was a wiser or more suggestive word said ...
... young lawyer suggested to him that the profession to which he had devoted himself was overcrowded , the great man replied , " Young man , there is always room enough at the top . " Never was a wiser or more suggestive word said ...
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... young Scott dis- place him . At length he observed , when a question was asked this boy , he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button on the lower part of his waistcoat ; and the removal of this was , therefore ...
... young Scott dis- place him . At length he observed , when a question was asked this boy , he always fumbled with his fingers at a particular button on the lower part of his waistcoat ; and the removal of this was , therefore ...
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... young birds which the wind had blown out of their nest , and he was hunting for the nest that he might put them back in it . " In a short time Lincoln came up , having found the nest and restored the birds . The party laughed at his ...
... young birds which the wind had blown out of their nest , and he was hunting for the nest that he might put them back in it . " In a short time Lincoln came up , having found the nest and restored the birds . The party laughed at his ...
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... young men who were intimate friends lived in Greece . Their names were Damon and Pythias . The ruler of the country , named Dionysius , was a cruel man . He put Pythias into prison and set a day for his death . Pythias had done nothing ...
... young men who were intimate friends lived in Greece . Their names were Damon and Pythias . The ruler of the country , named Dionysius , was a cruel man . He put Pythias into prison and set a day for his death . Pythias had done nothing ...
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Page 100 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 88 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Page 123 - A nameless man, amid a crowd that thronged the daily mart, Let fall a word of hope and love, unstudied, from the heart ; A whisper on the tumult thrown, — a transitory breath, — It raised a brother from the dust ; it saved a soul from death. O germ ! O fount ! O word of love ! O thought at random cast ! Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last.
Page 65 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
Page 85 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 82 - LITTLE drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land.
Page 148 - OUR band is few but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea.
Page 212 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 140 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 68 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.