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REVIEW. ** Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Pope.
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Review. ** Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."—Pope.
REVIEW . ** Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pope .
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4 \ rtv 1 . —T 7 ie Village School Improved ; or , the new System of Education prac tically explained , and adapted to the Case of Cquntry Parishes .. The third edition , with additions . To which is added , an Appendix , containing Specimens of . Catechetical Exercises ; an Account of the Method of
teaching Arithmetic in Classes , and by the Agency of the Scholars thenir selves j Mental Arithmetic on a new and simple Principle , . &c- By John Pople , M . A- Late Fellow of Oriel College , Oxford , Rector of EJnmore arid Swains wick , Somerset ,
aad Chaplain to the Right Hon . the Earl of IknnonL , Oxford : at the University Press . , Sold , iuJLondpn ., by JVlessrs . Jtivington and by J , Hajtchari 1815 . l ^ mo , pp . 188 . TO the large , and ^ we trust , increasing body of persons who exert themselves , in various ways , for the success qf . popular education >
cordially recmrunend this volunue : it is tjie result of the inquiries pf a cultivated mind ^ accustomed to patient , attentive observation , and instructed b y much individual experience ; and it
constitutes , on the , whole , the most valuable and interesting of ? dl the pubiicatipns on the subject . ; Ermop-e , frdrn the parsonage of which the author dates the " Advertisement
to the third action , " is a village four miles west from JBricJgewater in Som-v ersetshire . Here a day-school had for 8 o * n £ time been established , which M * . Poqle was in the practice of 00 ca ^ ionajlyyls ^ ting . " It consisted gen ***\\ y <* t a ] b&ut twenty-five or , thirty c ^ d | er ^ m both sexes 5 all of whom were taught fc > read ; some few , to ^ jf ^ J ^ d , M such ' of the girls as were ° W ^ noum . ^ ei ^ ina ttucted in naedle-^?* k . JMjte acjioolrnistresa was an ac-^ v ^ j Jn ^ ejlj ^ gejat womanr ^ - who appearpJWMWisj $£ ddipg all in her , power f ° JwWg , i o «^ th ^? <^ i 04 ^ u in their learn-^ S ; but her plan ot instruction being * &t iW ^ ich is fpl / ow ^ , fa % m-etst of tf * e ^ lla ^ W hpQl 8 , the progress macb iZ-p ^ fli ^^ Pg ^ c ^ to y ^ iat £ usually made in such Schools , was ??**<> means stich a * satisfied ' their Eft f ^ - ^^ "ia ^ to vteitarv Hence 4 tormed the resolution of attempt-
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ing to introduce into the school some of the recent improvements in education . " - ¦ t For a detailed account of the Enmore school , we must refer our readers
to the publication before us . In the general plan of this seminary there are two circumstances which deserve more immediately our notice and applause : we mean , " the method of teaching " and the rank of life of some of the children who receive instruction .
" The method of teaching is a compound of Dr . Bell's and Mr . Lancaster ' s systems , with alterations and additions . In what respects it agrees , and in what it differs from each ,, may be seen at once in the subjoined table /* ** I . It agrees with both"In the' division of the school into
classes ; each under the tuition of one of the scholars . - \ ¦
" II . It agrees with Dr . Belrs" t . In the use of small , cheap books , in preference to cards . - - ¦ ' * cc .. In reading word by word , backwards , and sometimes syllabic ally . " 3 . In unreiterated spelling , * ' 4 . In , the / reading and ciphering Jes ^ sons bejipg accompanied with questions . " 6 . In keeping a register of the busi ,-ness done in each class .
6 . In the interrogative mode of communicating religious instruction . " 7 . ' In the religious itistruction being according to the principles of the Established Church . " III . It agrees with Mr . Lancaster s—
" 1 . In all the children being seated at single desks , facing one way . " 2 . In all the children being taught to write . " 3 . In all the children being- taught to spell , by writing on slates Words die 7 tated by the teachers .
" ' 4 . In all the children , when of a proper age , being taught to cipher in classes . ^ " IV . The Enmore school differs from the greater part of those , both on 0 r . BelPs and Mr . Lancaster ' s syeieins---" In not being a free school . .. " V . The following modifications and additions Jtu * v < j Jppen intogdoce 4 : *
* Some farther modifications and additions are described in tjie notes "to tbis third edition . : -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/33/
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