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to be and do what she wished was his dearest aim , and he attained it . We will give an epitome of
The History of A . At seven years old , A . not only could neither write nor read , but he could not see , nor hear , nor think > like the rest of the world . Like the infant , he seemed completely shut up in the interior world of his own mind , and to judge by the expression of his face , which was singularly refined and joyful , it was a pure and happy world . He was less skilful in the management of his body ; less active and bold in boyish sports than B ., at two years old . You heard nervous screams , ( of joy , people called them , but I don ' t know if the term was correct , ) but you never observed in him anything like purpose in his plays . He walked
about seeing nothing , wishing for nothing , content with all events that came to him . You would have pronounced him an idiot , yet the phrenologists said he had extraordinary powers of mind . He only seemed roused to clear perception by tales of the horrible , or of the supernatural . The more gifted he was , the more
necessary was it to help him to develope and turn to account these gifts ; for we all know that unhappiness is the constant , and madness the frequent , consequence of unused energies . S » therefore undertook to teach him , and for her guide she took that beautiful sketch of what practical systematic teaching should be , for which the world is indebted to Dr . Biber , and wnich is con *
tained in his Life of Pestalozzi . The first thing she gave him to do was to write over dotted letters , —z . e . to join the dots by lines , and when he had written a word he had to make a sentence on
it . In this way he learned reading , writing , spelling , and the power of thinking and of fixing his attention , all at the same time . The sounds were chosen for the guide , and not the letters , and it was astonishing to see how fast he learned in this way . The second lesson was to put a consonant before at , and then before any given termination . After some time he was told to find words with various sounds in them , —for instance , the sound
a , as in paper . He found they , day , paint , weigh , blade . Then he was led to observe the various ways in which he had obtained the sound . The practice of making sentences upon the words was very effective in inducing in him that consciousness which he so much needed . There is something very affecting in looking
over the lesson books of this child , they are so simple and true ; and any one could discover from them the kind of life he led , and all that was impressing him . One singular thing is , that he never said 1 , or W . or H . or B . do so and so ; but always' some boys / f some ladies . '
' When boys fight with sticks , and roar , and speak altogether , they make a din . ' A dot is a little thing ; it ' s for i . '
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and Experiments in , Education . 8 & 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 859, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/41/
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