First Biennial Report of the Trustees and Instructor of the Monitorial School, Boston, 1826 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

School, Monitorial

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ISBN 10: 1331214874 ISBN 13: 9781331214878

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Trustees and Instructor of the Monitorial School, Boston, 1826

I shall omit many exercises subsidiary to those already described, such as reading, spelling, saying the multiplication and other tables all together, an exercise which has a powerful influence upon their habits of order and attention, and is a rapid and pleasing method of reviewing many exercises; for, many pupils who are afraid to speak alone, are emboldened by numbers; and it is no more difficult for the master's ear to detect an error in the multitude Of voices, than for a musician to discover a discord in a choir. These exercises also have a powerful effect in banishing that monotony and ennui which so often reign in schools conducted on the common plan.

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Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Trustees and Instructor of the Monitorial School, Boston, 1826

The monitorial school was instituted not only to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, but to render that acquisition a source of pleasure. The time we spend at school forms, on an average, no inconsiderable portion of life; and if school can be made a scene of enjoyment as well as of improvement, another object of no mean importance is attained. That this object is too generally overlooked, appears to be not the fault of the pupils, but of the cold and irksome system usually pursued in the developement of young minds: a system in itself sufficiently odious, even in the earlier stages of our countrys progress, when little was required of scholars beyond an imperfect knowledge of the elementary branches; but now become oppressive and injurious, from the increased field of knowledge, which is presented to the learner, by the discoveries and acquisitions of the last half century. We find, accordingly, that children who are taught on the old plan, are kept constantly on the stretch to obtain that degree of information which the state of society demands. They are pressed, when in school, and when out of it, with lessons which they do not understand, and of course cannot relish.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331214874
• ISBN 13: 9781331214878
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 46
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