 | Maria Edgeworth - Child rearing - 1801 - 366 pages
...reiterated pain and terror, the names names of the four-and-twenty letters of the alphabet, are,, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels : each of these have several different sounds, and, consequently,... | |
 | Asia - 1816 - 846 pages
...me : " By dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the letters of the alphabet are perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. In teaching a child to read, every letter should have a precise single sound annexed to its... | |
 | Education - 1827 - 554 pages
...of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the four-andtwenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels : each of these has sereral different sounds, and, consequently,... | |
 | Henry Hopwood - Teaching - 1841 - 206 pages
...when he is directed to put the two * As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and, if possible, a more dreadful task to teach to...sense, and at every step must stop his progress.—Miss Edgewcrrtlfs Practical Education. f This plan is followed in the Model Infant School Gray'sInn Road,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Education - 1843 - 50 pages
...reiterated pain and terror, the names of the four and twenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels ; each of these have several different sounds, and consequently... | |
 | Henrietta Williamson - 1852 - 166 pages
...dreadful task to teach to read The names of the four-and-twenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks firmly fixed in the pupil's...the worse ; all these names will disturb him if he t have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels ; each of these... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 1266 pages
...reiterated pain and terror, the names of the four and twenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels ; each of these have different sounds, and consequently ought to... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...and terrors, the names of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet are perhaps, in the course of a few weeks firmly fixed in the pupil's memory. So much...worse : — all these names will disturb him, if he has common sense, and at every step must impede his progress. "In the first lesson in the Spelling-book... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 752 pages
...of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the fourand-twenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels : each of these hns several different sounds, and consequently ought... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Education, Elementary - 1863 - 272 pages
...of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the four-andtwenty letters of the alphabet are, perhaps, in the course of some weeks, firmly fixed in the pupil's...have common sense, and at every step must stop his progress. To begin with the vowels : each of these has several different sounds, and consequently ought... | |
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As it is usually managed, it is a dreadful task indeed to learn, and if possible a more dreadful task to teach to read : with the help of counters, and coaxing, and gingerbread, or by dint of reiterated pain and terror, the names of the... 
