Excerpt from The Introductory Discourse, and the Lectures Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at Worcester, Mass., August, 1837: Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers
Introductory proposition, viz. The wants of our country and of the age require that Teachers' Seminaries should be established and endowed by every State in the Union, lgl - inquiry, What has God provided for the best nourishment of the young mind and how should these means of devel Opment be applied - our elementary schools do not apply all the provided means; and they never will unless they be furnished with purposely pre pared teachers - hence the need of Teachers' Seminaries - the community ignorant of the true state of the case, 162 - whole subject may be embraced in these questions; I. What should an instructor of a town-school be re quired to teach l - II. What traits of character are necessary in a competent instructer -iii. Do our instructors teach all that should be taught; and are they in qualifications all they should be - IV. Are Teachers' Semi naries desirable - A town-school master should teach, 1. Religion, 164 2. Reading - S. Spelling - 4. Writing - 5. Music - 6. Mathematics, 164 - 7. Geography and History - 8. Natural History - 9. Natural philosophy - l 0. Technology, 165-411. Politics - 12. Political Economy - 13. Foreign mod ern languages - 14. Logical exercises, 166 - 15. Metaphysics - 16. Compo sition and Declamation - all these topics of study are taught more or less in the best town-schools of Europe - importance of Religion as the true basis of human culture - so recognised by Plato - the Persians in the time of cyrus-locke, Milton, Lord Kames, Cousin - portrait of a good school.
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