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be found in the Patent Machine for teaching Arithnoetic / in a handsome mahogany box , and which may be seen ( and had for 16 s . ) in Regent-street . ' This machine enables a teacher , without anv trouble , and with
very little knowledge of arithmetic , to keep his pupils , however numerous , constantly employed ; and from the plain , intelligible , conspicuous , and novel manner in which the sums are exhibited , the pupils are attracted to the study of this very important branch of education . '
This exceeds the bounds of our imagination . We had never contemplated the possibility of communicating a science by machinery . Different minds vary so much that the machine must of course know how to modify its instructions to the actual state of the pupil . We have no doubt that there is a birch or cane which screws on to one end of the machine , and instantaneously punishes all defaulters ; while a small board on the other end
pats , with approbation , the heads of the successful ; and a third instrument starts out on extraordinary occasions , holding forth a handful of sugar-plums . We earnestly hope this gentleman will proceed with a machine for teaching reading ; and another for penmanship ; and we have no doubt of his being able eventually to construct a machine for teaching children religion and
morality , at least as well as we have sometimes seen them taught . To save trouble , however , it might be as well for the learned mechanist to produce an entire schoolmaster in clock-work at once ; and though it would be better to make a bright brass one for the town , we put it to his superior judgment , whether a castiron instructor would not answer every purpose in the country , where show is not so important .
The attainments and intellectual capacity of that portion of the community , of whose cause we are the feeble advocates , being , as we conceive , fully made out , it now only remains for us to prove their moral fitness . This will be a matter of less consequence , because most instructors take it for granted ( of course very
properly ) that intellectual fitness implies moral capacity ; and as parents generally concur in this and all other intellectual and moral propositions offered to them in regard to education , schoolmasters have the less occasion to thrust their high moral claims upon the public . Glimpses , however , of a striking moral tone are occasionally perceptible . As an example of a strong sense of justice , united with a becoming confidence in self , take the following :
* Such confidence is entertained of the most sanguine expectations being so fully realized , that pupils are permitted to be withdrawn , in case of dissatisfaction , at any period , on payment being made merely for the time they have been at school . ' How keen a sense of morality it shows , not to require to be paid for that which you have not earned ! The delicate sensl-No . 81 . 2 Z
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The Schoolmaster Abroad . ( 549 '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/65/
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