Education Abroad, and Other PapersA. S. Barnes and Company, 1873 - 176 pages |
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Page 8 - The school is one of the appointed agencies for diffusing aristocratic ideas and fortifying monarchical institutions. Education naturally conforms to the prevailing political sentiments. Our system aims at the development, protection, and prosperity of the individual. There the State is always the central figure. With us the Government is for the people as well as of the people. There the people are for the Government, and the children are taught that they belong to the State, somewhat as they do...
Page 106 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Page 103 - ... method to the endless diversities of mind and character. The difficulty of understanding little children is exceeded only by its importance. The internal history of a child is veiled from us, because it lies so far back of our present experience. In our eagerness to " put away childish things," we too soon forget how we " spake as a child, understood as a child, and thought as a child.
Page 87 - Compulsory education is monarchical in its origin and history. Common as is this impression, it is erroneous. Connecticut may justly claim to be one of the first States in the world to establish the principle of compulsory education. On this point our earliest laws were most rigid. They need but slight modification to adapt them to the changed circumstances of the present Before the peace of Westphalia, before...
Page 148 - ... to maintain their present one. . . I found that it is the want of industrial education in this country, which prevents our manufacturers from making that progress which other nations are making.
Page 147 - I am sorry to say, that although we may still be unsurpassed in many of our productions, we no longer hold that preeminence which was accorded to us in 1831.
Page 105 - The evil is hardly less serious in the school than it would be in the household. "What would be the effect of a semi-annual change of clerks and book-keepers in our mercantile establishments, or of agents and overseers in our manufactories, or of financiers in our banks, or of masters of oar merchantmen, or commanders of our iron-clads, or of doctors in our families, or of pastors in our parishes?
Page 78 - ... compulsory attendance to be decided to-morrow in Saxony by a plebiscite, it would be sustained by an almost unanimous verdict. Public opinion is now stronger even than the law. The people would sooner increase than relax its rigor.
Page 98 - It is a great and most important art to see, so accurately, that one's conceptions of visible objects may ever be as clear and distinct as were the original perceptions. This process early developed in spelling may be repeated at will in reference to any objects of perception and description, and thus the child gains a new and invaluable power which enters into all the graver operations of the mind in natural science, history, poetry, and the fine arts. The rules for spelling derivatives are not...
Page 84 - Christian lands, the rights of the parent are held to imply certain correlative duties, and the duty to educate is as positive as to feed and clothe. Neglected children, when not orphans in fact, are virtually such, their parents ignoring their duties, and thus forfeiting their rights as parents. The State should protect the helpless, and especially these, its defenceless wards, who otherwise will be vicious as well as weak.