THE NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY SCHOOL. THE following sketch of a Country School in New England-" as it was," is copied from the "Columbian Muse, a selection of American l'oetry, from various authors-published by Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, 1794,"-where it is credited to the New Hampshire Spy. 66 "John, keep your seat." My sum is more-" "Then do't again-Divide by four, By twelve, and twenty-Mind the rule. "I can't"-"Well try"-" T, W, L." "Not wash'd your hands yet, booby, ha? You had your orders yesterday. Give me the ferrule, hold your hand." "Oh! Oh!" "There,-mind my next command." What are the stops and marks, Susannah?" "Small points, Sir."-" And how many, Hannah ?" " Four, Sir." How many, George? You look :" "Here's more than fifty in my book." "How's this? Just come, Sam?" "Why I've been-" "Who knocks?" "I don't know, Sir." "Come in." "Your most obedient, Sir?" "And yours." "Sit down, Sir." "Sam, put to the doors." "Come, we can dance to night-so you "Well, mind and have the sleigh-bells sent, I'll soon dismiss my regiment." "Silence! The second class must read As quick as possible-proceed.. Not found your book yet? Stand-be fix'd The next read, stop-the next-the next. You need not read again, 'tis well." "Come Tom and Dick, chuse sides to spell. "Will this word do?" "Yes, Tom spell dunce. Sit still there all you little ones." "I've got a word," "Well, name it." Gizzard." S, H, U, N, T, S." "Well done!" 66 "Tim, spell it"—"P, H, O, U, X.” "O shocking! Have you all try'd?" "No." "Say Master, but no matter, go— Lay by your books-and you, Josiah, Help Jed to make the morning fire." INDEX TO ENGLISH PEDAGOGY. A-B-C., how taught, 417, 306. Academy, Milton's Plan of, 150, 181. Authority in Studies; 111. Academicum Nosocomium, or College of Health, 204. Awe, or Reverence of Parents, 241. Acting of Plays-Bacon and Raumer on, 92. Active Amusements, 40. Activity, Mental, 351. Ad Clerum, Sermon at Cambridge, 173. Education of Children, 52. Borrowing and Suretyship, 53. Esop's Fables in Latin, 308. Affectation in Manner, 251. Agriculture, Plan of College of, 191. Professors in University, 190. Hartlib, 188, 191, Petty, 189. Locke, 337. 229. Air, exercise in open, Allurements to learning, 71. Alphabet, how taught, 306, 417. Amusements, 397. Anger, in parent or child, 364. Animals, cruelty to, 287. training of, 345. Annotations on Bacon's Essay on Education, 96. 16 Studies, 104. Antiquity, Bacon's Estimate of, 85. Architecture, 183. Aphorisms on Education, 11, 137. Archimedes, application of Aphorism of, 142. Value of Pastimes, 41. Style, 38. Influence of, 117. Bacon's opposition to, 87. Arithmetic, 201, 323. Arts, Degrees in, 172. Ascham, R., Memoir, 23. Toxophilus, 24, 39. The Schoolmaster, 37. Interview with Lady Jane Grey, 32. 66 Writer on Education, 38. Asterly, J., 55. Treatise on Riding, 55. Astronomy, 183, 190, 324. Astronomical Observatory, 190, 203. Aubrey's Account of Milton's Studies, 167. Austin, S., Attainable ends of Education, 20. Aylmer, 28, 32. Bachelor of Arts, 173. Bacon, F., Memoir, 77. Raumer's Estimate of Philosophy, 77, 84, 93 Goethe, Criticism on, 89. Opinion of Schools of the Jesuits, 91. Genetic Method, 90. Methods should vary, 90. Public and Private Schools, 91. Acting of Plays, 93. Essay on Custom and Education, 95 Annotations on, 96, 104. Bacon, R., 80. Education Defined, Paley, 17. Parr, 17. Pope, 14. Ramsden, 17, 19. Ruskin, 19. Shakspeare, 11. Short 13. South 13. Spencer, 388. Whichcote, 13. Wotton, 12. ducation, kinds. Academic, 163. Industrial, 199, 336. Intuitional, 377. Self-developing, 376. Direction, 18. Development, 11. Drawing out, 11. Grafting, 18, 101. Growth, 16. Globes, 324. Gnosticism, Modern, 102. Goblins and Demons, 297. God, the Love and Reverence of, 297. Good Breeding, 139, 251, 299. in Tutor or Teacher, 267. Good Nature, 298. Government of Children, 265, 371. Complex and Difficult, 371. Knowledge for, required, 371. Qualifications and Duties of, 267. Grafting of a Tree, and Education, 100. |