Excerpt from The Family and School Monitor: And Educational Catechism
The general tendency of our age is to right-lined movement, and in the shortest time compatible with security of person and property. Educational processes have already strongly felt this tendency, and they are destined to feel it more deeply hereafter. The rapid multiplication of ideas, and the greatly increased knowledge necessary to the performance of duty, have rendered brief and accurate language one of the prime necessities of our age. The time has now arrived when our primary exercises in articulation and in inflection of the voice, ought to be made indicative of great truths, while all the reading lessons in our schools should be truly descriptive of the most important practical duties.
Such considerations have had controlling influence in the compilation and arrangement of this book, which is designed to be used as a common reader, both in families and in schools.
The parent or teacher may properly read the questions, requiring the child or pupil to read the answers. The answers to some of the questions are longer than time, in large schools, will allow one person to read; such answers will admit of easy division into two or more parts, and may be read by a corresponding number of children.
The first and last chapters have immediate connection with the frontispiece and ought to be read with constant reference to it.
The selections, in finer print, at the heads of sections, may be omitted until the second or third reading.
Some few selections are well adapted for exercises in speaking, and may be used for that purpose with the best results.
Each section, after having been several times read and examined, may be made a subject for a written composition by pupils who are sufficiently advanced to participate in that most useful exercise. Such a course, well pursued, would impress indelibly upon the minds of pupils a general knowledge of the fundamental laws of education greatly superior to what is now usually attained.
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