The Education of Catholic Girls eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 248 pages of information about The Education of Catholic Girls.

The Education of Catholic Girls eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 248 pages of information about The Education of Catholic Girls.
   105-6; and organized games, 107-8, 110; and solitude, 108-10; toys
   and playthings, 107; hoops, 110. 
Poetry, 102; place of, 192; for children’s recitation, 186. 
Popes, the:  in history, 177, 178, 179; of Renaissance, 26; temporal
   power of, 165; life of labour of, 98-9. 
Popularity in matters of taste, 188-4. 
Portraits, criticism of English, in Berlin, 129-30. 
Pose, temptation to, 41; of being erratic, 70. 
Practical education, 81. 
Pressure in education, 97, 116-7. 
Prize distribution, system of, 103-4. 
Professional dangers in teaching, 61-7. 
Pronunciation and accent, 154. 
Proportion in studies, 191. 
Protestant Reformation, effect on manners, 201.
  —­school, Catholic child in, 24. 
Protestantism, 25; and French Revolution, 202. 
Psychology, 68, 70-1, 73. 
Pugin’s “Book of Contrasts,” cited, 189. 
Punishment, 99.

“Quack” methods in learning languages, 155. 
Queen Victoria, 153, 198. 
Queen’s College, London, opening of, 216. 
Querdeo, Y Le, quoted, 21. 
Querulous tone, in the nursery, 53. 
Question and answer lessons, 75, 180. 
Questioning, manner of, 102; effect of too many questions, 36. 
Quiet of mind, 221, 231-2.

Reading:  Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster on, 147, 238-43; and
   character, 36; for girls, 146, 148; without commentary, 145; value
   of, in education, 182-42.
  —­aloud, 134, 136, 146; the best introduction to literature, 143. 
Realities of life, 81, 87 et seq., 226. 
Recitation, 134-6; gesture in, 136. 
Recreation. See Play. 
Reformation, the Protestant, 201. 
Religion, the teaching of, 1-20; aims in, 11, 17-18; periods in, 8. 
Religious houses, foundresses of, 224; and manual labour, 98.
  —­minds, difficulties of, 63.
  —­orders, development of, 165.
  —­teaching:  qualifications for, 4; and manners, 201. 
Renaissance, the, 25; Popes of the, 26. 
Rewards, 99, 103, 104. 
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, cited, 130. 
Roman Catholics, disabilities of, 112-3.
  —­history, 169. 
Rossettl, D. G., quoted, 182.

Sacraments, the, as modifying temperamant, 29. 
Sacred books, jewels of prayer in, 15. 
Saints, devotions to the, 10-11. 
Savonarola, 26.  Schiller, quoted, 214.  Scholastic philosophy, 74. 
School:  and home education, contrasted, 77-8; and preparation for life,
   76, 80, 91 et seq,; organization and individual development, 80.
  —­education, drawbacks to, 78-9.
  —­life, impressiveness of, 76-7. 
Sohurman, Clara von, 222. 
Science, experimental, 120-2, 151; misuse of the term, 118-9. 
Scolding, 43, 60. 
Scottish schoolmasters, old race of, 97-8. 
Scriptural knowledge examinations, 16. 
Scripture, devotional study of, 15. 
Self-consciousness in children, 35. 
Self-devotion, 31, 219, 224, 228. 
Self-help, 89-90. 
Selfishness, 84,199-200. 

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