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man of the first eminence in the medical department , I have thought your readers might not dislike , to see how far the improvements in education lately introduced into Great Britain may have been derived from these sources . I am , &c . V . F .
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name each time with aloud voice this is done whilst they are actuall y forming the letter , 4 . As soon as they have obtained some notion of the first
letter , the second , and afterwards each succeeding one , is written for them , which they learn in the same manner as before , until the line i * completed .
5 . They then commence witk the vowels , and afterwards with the consonants , of the Canarese alphabet ; and as soon as they are able to write ten , twenty , or more
letters , they read them all over aloud immediately afterwards ; the letters are then erased , and again written and repeated , until the scholars are desired to desist .
6 . When able to write the letter * quickly , the scholars do not al way * pronounce their names aloud whilst writing them , but they wait until m certain numtier has been formed , when they read them as before , *
7 . Thus fifteen or twenty boysf whilst seated by the side of each other , are partly instructing themselves by forming and pronouncing
aloud , and separately , such letters of the alphabet as each may be acquainted with , until a few shall be sufficiently advanced to receive the same instruction together .
8 . Gne of the head-boys , whelms been selected as an trader- * teacher , is now ^ p laced at the head of this set , and he writes and pronounces any number of letters , whilst they follow him , all at the same time ; he afterwards reads
aloud his own letters , and they d <* the same , looking at theirs ; the master is also superintending . 9- In the evening , when the school is lighted , one of the scho ~ lars is desired by the roaster t # repeat from memory all tfcei letters
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A / ft Account of the Native Schools in India .
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The Method of conveying Instruction in the Canarese Schools witimi the Mysore Territory , es witnessed in the City of Mysore . !• • At their entrance into the school the scholars are taught the first letters by the master himself ; for it is ordered in the Sbasters , that the primary instruction shall always be conveyed by the superior of the school . 2 . The boys are seated upon the ground , and a quantity of fine sand is spread before them , in which the master makes with his fore finger the first letter of a short line composed of ten vowels and consonants , signifying salutation and supplication to the Deity , and which is always placed above the alphabet . —The letter is purposely made very large , that it may be the more easily comprehended ; and the boys are desired to draw tl ^ eir own fingers along the line of it , 100 times or upwards , until they may comprehend it;—the master pronouncing , and the scholars repeating , the name all the while : the latter are then desired to form the letter themselves , which they do close to the other by looking at it , and they still repeat the name . 3 . As soon as the scholars are able to form the letter without the assistance of the copy , the latter is rubbed out , and they write it from memory , and always pronounce its
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/24/
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