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344 Notices of books.
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taking their rise in the wants and affections of individuals , conduce by a tion direc is t and onl unfailing t of * process the to at the question well being the of other society . t is Intellectual the training educa that
shall and his enable famil y a a par nian This , his latter circum gre is stances the primary dul ; y considered paramount par , to provide abiding for universal himself
regarde requiremen d as t . practicall y To . this y subordina everything te . else And , even what , intellectual among the , culture well-disposed , , must be of wishes do
this class is considered sufficient intellectual education ? Their not go beyond reading , writing , and the simple rules of arithmetic , and such
more habits as tended those , of know order that , cleanliness something , and more attention may be . added "We , wi whose th advantage horizon to is t tand the
the future laborer . We should be glad to see music taugho all , t reading he lemen abili ts includes t to write w the ing from effort in all dictation to schools grasp for the which the me children aning involves of what of orthograp mechanics is read h , and . Of I wri myself course ting ,
table would _j ) h v ysiolog en y go a y , st with ep fur some ther , and geograp add , a hical little kno instruction wledge . in All anim this y al . and may vege be
t schoo aught ls b where y the wi close th t he the ten tion th year of the of a w child ing ' s age the . There hysiology are man it is y
w regularl ere generall y achie y , ved unders ; and tood excep in by how the many manager more s of would elementary it be accomp p school lished s that , the it
mas firs allo t wed tered men to t ? ioned interfere In the poin tim ts with e are allowed them the essential , and or be sufficien a ones ttempted , t for and the till that they nothing are if wisel thoroug should used hl be y y
the necessary foundations of intellectual , culture should purpose be laid as securely , readil as possible y available , in order for that whatever they may may be prove retained to be in the a life requirements of labor , and of made after
circums days . In tances like whether manner a with youth the should upper be classes sent , to it the is a U question niversity of . tim Parents e and ei do ghteenth not think and it twenty worth - while first or that twenty the - long second and years critic should al period be g be iven tween up t the o a
be con learn tinuation t and of done his elsewhere classical studies . The , when fields so of much knowled that is and more all valuable the intel can - lectual wants of society , are now so multiplied and so various , that a purely
por literary tion of and the theolog upper ical classes educa . tion If is the now Universities suitable , if wo to uld any regain , only their to a small hold of upon kno us wl they ed must they accommodate must themselves the ablest to these truc facts tors . at For all branches tthe
ge procure any ; y degrees mus mus t t again be mus compe t admi be lled ine t s x t t orabl uden o stud ts withheld y at an yt y hing age from , as bu inconrpetency low t wha as t fifteen he desires an or d sixteen t made o stud to ; y no ; and one
sent a serviceable mastery y of the branches to which they , are assigned . repre " Of the University examinations for middle-class schools Mr .
Zincke says : — middle "If - it class be found education j ) ossible just where or desirable they found to continue ithel them i , they will wv leave to
, png us , eer , a and rrive how at their a better wants understanding may be _sxipp as lied to . what Trade is required is quite b as y the exacting middle as classes labor ; , -
necessar or those fifteenth who y habitudes are to live This ; they by excludes it cannot and su and the ccee do d possibility in not it delay mus of t this begin iv beyond ing ear th ly the to acquire d fourteenth ucation tlie
classical or learne year . d direction , but it gives time for g laying well the foundations h of all physiology that a life music engaged and in drawing trade will with require French , —English and the history rudiments , geo of
grap Latm . y , There is nothing , here but what will , be useful for that which will bo the -work of after life ; it is a foundation to which any additions , either
scientific or literary , can afterwards be made . It will qualify a man for
344 Notices Of Books.
344 _Notices of books .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/56/
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