 If there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is this — that the discipline which does good to the mind is that in which the mind is active, not that in which it is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to give them much...  Once a Week - Page 166edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Swett - 1900 - 334 pages
...but one intellectual faculty, and that is memory. Mill says, that if there is a first principle in education, it is this : " That the discipline which...the mind, is that in which the mind is active, not passive; the secret of developing the faculties is to give them much to do, and much inducement to... | |
 | John Swett - 1900 - 332 pages
...intellectual faculty, and that is memory. Mill says, that if there is a first principle in education, 1 it is this : " That the discipline which does good...the mind, is that in which the mind is active, not passive; the secret of developing the faculties is to give them much to J67 and much inducement to... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1907 - 300 pages
...himself." — From the Report of the Ohio State Commissioner of Statistics, 1859. " If there is a first principle in intellectual education it is this —...discipline which does good to the mind is that in which the 1nind is active, not that in which it is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to give... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1907 - 322 pages
...there is a first principle in intellectual education, it is -•• The Property Aspect of Slavery 71 this, that the discipline which does good to the mind is that in •which the mind is active, not in that in which it is passive." — Principles of Political Economy, by J. Stuart Mill. The benefit... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1086 pages
...— that the discipline whic$Kdoes good to the mind is that in which the min4~is_active, iXQt_-iliat_ in which it is passive. The secret for developing the faculties is to gixe them much to do, and much inducement to do it This detracts nothing from the importance, and even... | |
 | Edward Samuel Lewis - 1910 - 296 pages
...new education regards first the activity of the mind. Mill gives as the first principle in education, "The discipline which does good to the mind is that in which the mind is active, not passive; the secret of developing the faculties is to give them much to do, and much inducement to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 477 pages
...part of such cultivation as they receive. If there is a first principle in intellectual education, if is this— that the discipline which does good to...give them much to do, and much inducement to do it. This detracts nothing from the importance, and even necessity, of other kinds of mental cultivation.... | |
 | E. LETHBRIDGE , M. A. - 1876 - 484 pages
...The principle of the change we will enunciate in the words of John Stuart Mill. " If there is a first principle in intellectual education it is this —...that in which the mind is active, not that in which the mind Is passive." It will be observed that the class in reference to which this sentence •was... | |
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