CHAPTER IX A GREAT EDUCATIONALIST (A REVIEW)           We look to Germany for Educational Reform.—We in England require, every now and then, to pull ourselves together, and to ask what they are doing on the Continent in the way of education. We still hark back to the older German educational reformers. We may not know much of Comenius, Basedow, Ratich; we do know something of … Continue reading School Education Volume 3 Chapter 9

HOME TRAINING—PHYSICAL             It is not necessary to discuss here the respective merits of large and small schools, of day and boarding schools. We may assume at once that the discipline of the school is so valuable, that the boy or girl who grows up without it is at a disadvantage through life; while, at the same time, the training of the school is … Continue reading Formation of Character Volume 5 Pt 3. Chapter 1 (6)

GIRLS’ SCHOOLS   Girls are, on the whole, worse off than boys as regards what they get out of school life. There is an element of generosity, of free and friendly “give and take” in boys’ games, which is wanting to the girls. Beautiful and lasting girl friendships are formed in most schools, but girls do not always do each other good; perhaps because they … Continue reading Formation of Character Volume 5 Pt 3. Chapter 1 (5)

CHAPTER VIII CERTAIN RELATIONS PROPER TO A CHILD           GEOLOGY, mineralogy, physical geography, botany, natural history, biology, astronomy—the whole circle of the sciences is, as it were, set with gates ajar in order that a child may go forth furnished, not with scientific knowledge, but with, what Huxley calls, common information, so that he may feel for objects on the earth and in the heavens … Continue reading School Education Volume 3 Chapter 8