Business College, SAN FRANCISCO. T. A. ROBINSON, M. A., Pres't BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY. UNION COLLEGE OF LAW Fall term be gins Sept. 2 For circulars ad. H.BOOTH.CHICAGO,ILL Parents rejoice i thin Circulars AGENTS Work for their sons BANITARY PUB. CO.,159 LaSalle St.,CHICAGO DEGREES Calling of distinction to those Conferred for any profession or furnishing evidence of proficiency. For nartic COL. W. H. O'BRIEN, Superinte DACIFIC Business Colles 320 POST S SAN FRANCIS Life scholarship, $75. No vacations! Evening Sessions, Ladies admitted departments. Address, T. A. ROBINSON, M. A.. BUCKEYE BELL FOUND Bells of Pure Copper and Tin for Ch PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. Official Organ of the Department of Public Instruction. VOL. VII. MARCH, 1890. No. I 1 A FEW DICTA FROM THE FAMOUS EDUCATIONAL WORK OF COMENIUS-III. The Didactica Magna, published in 1628. [Translated with Comments, by Prof. Granville F. Foster.] SUNDRY DICTA. Avoiding conflicting opinions in class. "However much older pupils are benefited by debates, properly conducted, young children must be preserved from all controversy about the facts taught. Never will they fathom the truth or retain anything definite or positive in their minds if their earliest instructions are allowed to hang in their memory in the balance of conflicting opinions. Let There are some teachers who delight to tear into pieces before the class the statements of a text-book. Oftentimes a teacher hopes by such a course of conduct, to be able to impress upon the consciousness of his pupils an exaggerated opinion of his own transcendent knowledge and ability, but it only serves to fill their minds with distrust of all learning, giving them an idea that it is useless to study today what may be contradicted as the height of folly to-morrow. all teachers as far as possible avoid the practice, 'tis evil and evil continually. This will not exclude calling the attention of the class to a misprint or referring to the recent discoveries which have been added to the information of the text-books, but to point out an error there or a gross mis-statement there in the only book on the subject, perhaps accessible to the pupils, is as pernicious as the effect of the clergyman's sayings, whose burden is to prove to those who are acquainted with English alone that there are countless mistakes and gross errors in the |