The School; Essay Towards Humane Education (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...Man from Object, contrasts Man and Now, iangu _ age appears Object with each other outwardly, while inwardly as indebringing them nearer and uniting them. This is the Stage in which Language itself comes forth as Man independent, as existing for its own Sake. We are hrTM boy now entering upon this Stage. It is by this Division Siding of Name from Thing, and of Thing from Name; thing/speech of Speech from Speaker, and vice versd; moreover by shaker: what follows later, giving a visible Body to Speech, fng a visYbie by means of Drawing and Writing, and treating speech by Language as something material--that Man rises writing. Childhood lived for its own sake, and strove to express what was within. Boyhood is the stage of bringing-in what is without, of learning. Instruction refers to the Laws governing all things--independent of man; except that he too is a thing. 'Schopl" is whereverand however genuine instruction is given. Man, rising out of childage, is a scholar: whether at home, or abroad, under parent or professional teacher. from the Stage of Childhood to that of Boyhood. 73. Just as the former Stage of human Development---Childhood--consisted in Living, in Life, for its own Sake, and aimed at externalizing the Internal; so the present, Boyhood--is prominently the stage of internalizing the External; the Stage ot' Acquisition. On the parents' side, the nursling-stage was chiefly the time of tendance; to see that the little being took no harm. The next age--shall we say, from two or three to seven years?--is that in which training should prevail; that is, the child is watched and helped to utter itself naturally; not schoolmastered or taught by force. And, the stage of boyhood is the period in which...