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petent and efficient teachers for th # se schools ^ Normal or Tea ~ chers' Schools should fee ^ sta-Wished in diierent districts throughout the country * in
wfefeh > gratuitous instruction should be afforded to a competent number of persons who , by thairi dispositions , were fitting , a #$ tnigpit wish to become teachers . Those schools should
be managed and conducted bj competent professors of every useful branch of art and science , who should be responsible to the Local Committees and to the Committee of Public
Instruction for the time being . No teacher should be permitted to teach in any school who had not < properly qualified himself in a Normal School , and could produce a certificate to that effect- We think one of the
most essential things to be observed in the education of those teachers is to qualify them in the art of simplifying knowledge , of imparting it with effect , Una kindness of disposition . Beyond these , we think there should be four different descriptions of schools : * r-lst . Infant Schools ,
for children from three to six yeaxg old . ** ? -2 nd . Preparatory Schools , for children from six to » iner-r-3 rd ; "High Schools , for children from nine to t \ velve- ^—4 tfc . Finishing Schools or Colle & esy for all above twelve who imght choose to devote * their *
time to acquire all the ^ higher branches of knowledge . Amtfr fkueritnumber of all those schedlsy for both gexes , ought to he judiijiomly ei'ected , to buit the convenience of < eaeh locality . Tiqk general training in > all ought to embrace the * hwrmonwvs < fe-
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vdopmetitGf tkepkymal , morvrf , and intellectual p & skm vfemk chUd ; - to best prepare fen in strength , morality , and intellect , to enjoy his onm ea ? i $ tencfy mid to render the greatest amown % h of
benefit to other &~ Th & Infant Schools should be open to all children between the ages of three and six ; cleanliness an # punctual attendance should be scrupulously insisted upon , ast the best means of amalgamating distinctions' of class , and
preserving the children from corrupting influences . We think the first object of the teaciters should be to place the children in accordance with the laws of their organization ; and it h doubtless in opposition to those laws to confiiie them in close atmospheres , drilled tv sit in one posture for
hours , and to have their little feelings operated upon by the fears of the rodj of confinement , and of all the numerous follies at present pi'actised to compel submission The air and exercise of the playground and garden are th & feyt essentials at this early sttitje , where the teachers shmild as care *
fully watch over them as tihtfie school-room , and wlwH all tMit faculties are in full activity , / etofuse those jrrwieiples of actibn , justice , and Mndness , hecessari / to fonifb their character , ' which tit tfidt age will be more impressive than booh imt / ruction . They should be taught a knowledge of
things as well' a # of wordsy and have their pr 6 pertie & arid' ii # e & impressed on their sferie ^ sj bf the Exhibition and explanation of objects ; Prirtdpl ^ of mo - rality should not t ) e merely rfc 1 peftted b ^ rotey biW t htf whv an ) i wfe ^ efore ? frimillarty ekpfctitled
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/16/
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