The Real Boy and the New SchoolBoni & Liveright, 1925 - 375 páginas |
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Agpawan American Angelo Patri asked attitude beautiful believe Ben Lindsey better Bible Billy Sunday boy's boyhood brought cabin called cave classroom Dalton Plan dance dream experience fear feel felt fire followed friendly gang grow Halley hand happy hard Havelock Ellis heart Hugh Pollock idea interest Intervale Jesus kids Kitty knew Krupp lake lesson listened living look marriage matched pennies memory mental mind Mohegan moral morning never Nietzsche night one's paddle parents perhaps philosophy poetry pupils religion remember school of tomorrow Seeds seemed smile sometimes soul spirit Stanley Hall Stockbridge story story of mankind Stuart Sherman Sunday talk teach teacher teacherhood things Thomas à Kempis thought tion told tree watched wonder woods words write wrong youngsters youth
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Página 244 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive...
Página 69 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Página 316 - And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings ; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore ; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Página 72 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Página 170 - BETTER trust all, and be deceived. And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.
Página 379 - A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Página 12 - If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Página 123 - Well I know who'll take the credit — all the clever chaps that followed — Came, a dozen men together — never knew my desert fears; Tracked me by the camps I'd quitted, used the waterholes I'd hollowed. They'll go back and do the talking. They'll be called the Pioneers!
Página 138 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Página 113 - In the elder days of Art, Builders -wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods see everywhere.