15974 examples of study in sentences
And study how to prevent this cruel separation.
Perhaps the most significant and most important of these was the effect of the child-study movement on the formal and external side of Kindergarten work.
For instance, the "simple" in geography, in the adult sense, was the definition of an island, with which most of us began that study, and in geometry it was the point.
About 1890 or thereabouts the Nature Study movement swept over the schools, and "nature specimens" then became the material for sense training: as far as possible each child had a specimen, and by the minute examination of these, stimulated their senses and stifled their appreciation of all that was beautiful.
If a similar study were to be made of a child from a slum also free to arrange his day, we should find that while certain general features were the same others would be different: he would ask for different stories, probably play different games, or the same games in a different way, his back-yard would present different aspects, the things he made would be different.
It is difficult to say whether this may be termed literature, geography, or nature study.
Therefore the making of a box may be arithmetic, the painting of a buttercup may be nature study, the construction of a model, or of dramatic properties may be geography or history, not by any means the only way of learning, but one of the earlier ways and a very sound way; there is a purpose to serve behind it all, that will lead to very careful discrimination in selection of knowledge, and to pains taken to retain it.
An Introduction to Child Study.
(Longmans.) INDEX Abrahall, Miss H., Adam and Eve question, Adler, Dr. Felix, Aim of education and of human life, America, Kindergartens in, Anderson, Professor A., Animals and nature study, Apparatus.
See Equipment and Surroundings Caldecott Nursery School, Camp School, Child study, Class discipline, Cleanliness and order, Clough, A.H., Clouston, Dr., Colour, Comenius, Conduct aim of education, experiences ofSee also Moral Teaching Connectedness, continuity.
If you study the sales people, you can sometimes tell how a store is run.
Before I could get out of my chair to go upstairs I heard the study door open, and Sir Horace called out, 'Hill, come here!'
"I went upstairs as quick as I could, and the door of the study being wide open, I could see inside.
It was also his intention to study closely the defence which Counsel for the prisoner intended to put forward.
In his own room Crewe pulled out his notebook and once more gave himself up to the study of the baffling Riversbrook mystery, in the new light of Gabrielle's confession.
Mrs. Wesley and the children were in the study when the alarm was raised, and "the mother, taking two of them in her arms, rushed through the smoke and flame;" another was with difficulty saved, and happily none were lost.
Another feature of the method was the abolition of the study of syllables, and the immediate and usually successful advance into words and sentences, such as the opening verses of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
"Take it into the study!"
"I think he has great natural talent, and has had very little opportunity to study."
In former years I have repeatedly watched this singular operation, in the Lombardy poplars that stood before my study-windows.
These "Elements" soon became the universal study of geometers throughout the civilized world; they were translated into the Arabic, and through the Arabians were made known to mediaeval Europe.
So highly was it esteemed that Galen in the second century,born in Greece, but famous in the service of Rome,went there to study, five hundred years after its foundation.
All men are comparatively ignorant in science, because science is confessedly a progressive study.
It seems, in his wisdom, he foresaw my weakness; and has found out this expedient for me, That it is not necessary for Poets to study strict Reason; since they are so used to a greater latitude than is allowed by that severe inquisition; that they must infringe their own jurisdiction to profess themselves obliged to argue well.
Even Columbus is supposed, with some considerable probability, to have been prompted to his enterprize, which ended in the discovery of America, by the study of these travels; believing, that by a western course through the unexplored Atlantic, he should find a comparatively short passage to those eastern regions of the Indies, which Polo had visited, described, or indicated.