The R.I. Schoolmaster Volume 6 (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. 1860 Excerpt: ...were bent. Pretty English violets; Then /said, In your depths a blueness lies Clear as if old England's skies Arched our head. Learn the lesson, oh my soul, Let thine eye, Still reflect thy native Heaven, Still though darksome days be given, Mirror Love's blue sky. So, perchance some pilgrim soul, Passing by. May be comforted and say, I have caught a glimpse to-day Of Heaven's sunny sky. M. C. P. Books are men of higher stature, and the only ones who speak aloud for future times to hear. Mrs. Browsing For the Schoolmaster. Practical Discipline. Having previously spoken of practical studies, it may not be amiss to add a word on practical discipline. Thoroughly practical as our educational system is designed to be, and fundamental as are the formative influences of its discipline on character, it surely is a matter of some consequence to consider what sort of discipline is calculated to produce true men and good citizens. "It will not do to break down a boy's spirit," is a somewhat popular saying; and we would be the last to object to the idea, taken in its true sense. But when it is adopted as the exclusive axiom, on which hangs the whole subject of discipline in the family and the school, and when it is applied with an utter want of discrimination and an utter misconception of the kind of spirit in a boy which it is so injudicious to break down, we must protest. The boy in our public schools is to be regarded as a probationer for citizenship; he is undergoing discipline and acquiring experience with a special reference to that end. Suppose, then, he refuses to comply with the wholesome and necessary regulations of the school. Those regulations may pertain to matters in themselves apparently trivial. Whispering, laughing, inattention to study, pet...