The Introductory Discourse And Lectures Of The American Institute Of Instruction

Author : American Institute Of Instruction
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428810252
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Introductory Discourse and the Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, in Boston, August, 1833 written by American Institute Of Instruction and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Introductory Discourse and the Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, in Boston, August, 1833: Including a List of Officers and Members Parents may also learn a useful lesson from these facts, by which they and their children would be spared no small amount of the mental irritation, occasroned in the family, by the impracticable attempts to detain their little ones in one place to keep them still, to make them behave (to use the common parental phrase) like little ladies and gentlemen to the souring of much good temper, and the no small an noyance of both parties. A View of the condition of the brain and nervous system at this tender age, would convince them, that, when they thus attempt to force nature, they aim at an impossibility; that the child, like the bird of the air, is all nerve; and that it must move or die. The parental tyranny So often exercised in this particular, and which sometimes does not stop short of a smart box upon the ear that most un physiological and unphilosophical of all punishments, 18 a de oisive evidence, if not of a hard heart, of a hardened brain and is as inconsistent With physiological principle as With common sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.