The most powerful educative agents of the vegetative apparatus of a human being are the other humans around him.

And it certainly was a very educative talk for me.

Family life on the farm is highly educative; there is more discipline for a boy in the continuous care of a cow or a horse than in many a term of school.

Yet the fact remains that the necessity of this educative campaign involves a confession of failureor at least of grave neglecton the part of British democracy.

In the church of S. Marco lie two of the learned men, friends of Lorenzo de' Medici, whose talk at the Medici table was one of the youthful Michelangelo's educative influences, what time he was studying in the Medici garden, close by: Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494), the poet and the tutor of the three Medici boys, and the marvellous Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), the enchanted scholar.

" The vital problem with parents is how to fill this period of plasticity, how to provide an educative environment of the right kind.

Notwithstanding this fact, nearly every educative effort is confined to the intellect and the feelings are allowed to shift for themselves.

The Citizen Must See to It that this Great Educative Influence of His Community Is Uplifting in Nature

He must get over the notion that the school is the only educational agency and must understand that every influence that modifies conduct is educative in nature.

They had already come under educative influences which prepared them for a larger task in Canada.

The following extracts from his letters reveal the character of the man, and surely furnish an illustration of what was said in a former chapter about the educative effect of religion on the Scottish working-man: "DUNGLASS, Dec, 23,1839.

This capability of national defence has a pronounced educative value in national development.

Macedonia was also taken into account, schools and armed bands began their educative activity amongst those inhabitants of the unhappy province who were Serb, or who lived in places where Serbs had lived, or who with sufficient persuasion could be induced to call themselves Serb; but the principal stream of propaganda was directed westwards into Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Emotion and the educative process.

Emotion and the educative process.

These limited enthusiasms may have an educative effect upon the persons who indulge them, but they may also have a stunting effect if they are pursued too long.

Looking over the National Reformer for all these years, it seems to me that it did really fine educational work; Mr. Bradlaugh's strenuous utterances on political and theological matters; Dr. Aveling's luminous and beautiful scientific teachings; and to my share fell much of the educative work on questions of political and national morality in our dealings with weaker nations.

A grim and grisly drama when you come to criticise it in cold blood, but not without a certain humour of its ownand most educative for Brother Boche!

The educative power of literature, however, is not diminished because in its art it dispenses with the didactic method, which by its very definiteness is inelastic and narrow; in fact, the more imaginative a character is, the more fruitful it may be even in moral truth; it may teach, as has been said, what the poet never dreamed his work contained.

It informs the mind of the normal course of certain lines of action, of the inevitable issues of life; it breeds habits of right thinking in respect to these; it is educative, and though we do not act at once upon this knowledge, when the occasion arises we are prepared to act.

So, when literature presents examples of emotional experience, it informs us of the nature of emotion, its causes, occasions, and results, its value in character, its influence on action, the modes of its expression; it breeds habits of right thinking in respect to these, and is educative; and, just as in the preceding case, though we do not act at once upon this knowledge, when the occasion arises we are prepared to act.

Two particular phases of this educative power should be specifically mentioned.

And, secondly, the subjective emotion in ourselves is educative in the point that by this outlet we go out of ourselves in sympathy, lose our egoism, and become one with man in general.

It thus appears more and more that art is educative; it is the race's foreknowledge of what may be, of the objects of effort and the methods of their attainment under mortal conditions.

The German Government, up to the minute in all things, knows the vivid educative force of the kinema, and realises the effect of such a sequence of pictures upon her people at home and neutrals throughout the world, It enables them to see for themselves the difference between the barbarous Russians and the generous Germans.