Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large grasp of facts in the study of the social problems of the hour is the ambition of all earnest men. A short hour spent in listening to the facts presented by Mr. Hadley, will give more vivid and full information than much reading. At Yale last Spring, his address was heard by over five hundred students and was very enthusiastically received...
...same intense regard for and dependence upon personality that turned Newman's eyes upon himself that made his religion subjective and his thought self-conscious. Indeed it has been made a charge against him that he had too little affection for truth in the abstract. His grasp of external fact was always feeble in comparison to his perception of his own inner life. His religion always looked for its ultimate sanction to his own consciousness. This extreme subjectivity manifests itself further in a disposition to doubt the reality of the outward aspects of nature. His childish idealism took form...
...purpose to offer suggestions along the line of history, large and broad, but brief and general, which each will have to apply for himself. When we come where specializations are necessary, on the whole the person who knows his subject best will teach it best. Get then a comprehensive grasp of the subject you would teach. Right here lies the danger of pedagogic systems; they may tend to give the impression that one can teach without thoroughly knowing one's subject, and that teaching is a science apart from the subject one would teach. Lay out limitations to your subject...
Prof. Goodale advocated the teaching of botany to children and defined clearly the parts of the subject which he thought within their grasp. They may study the outward form and more or less of the inward, cell structure of plants; the underlying idea, the vegetal morphology, may also be discovered by them. The child, however, cannot be expected to understand the classification of plants into families, their knowledge must be general, not specific...
...other subjects was put off too long. As a result of the suggestions, then, if they are followed, the time devoted to some of the very elementary studies will be cut down, and other studies be introduced earlier in the course, when the young mind is as ready to grasp them. In this way the ground now covered by the grammar schools will be gone over in a much shorter time. From the recommendations of the Association it is difficult to make out whether they mean the grammar school course to be shortened, or whether it should remain the same...