What to Learn and What to Unlearn, in Three Lectures - Tapa blanda

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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: ... MENTAL VIGOUR; ITS ATTAINMENT IMPEDED BY ERRORS IN EDUCATION. A Paper read before the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, December 13,1858. IT is a great pleasure to me to be invited to meet this Society, and I tender my thanks for the compliment of having been enrolled among the Honorary Members, a distinction which I appreciate very highly, although I fear I have not done enough to deserve it. On the subject which I have chosen, my opinions are not such as will perhaps find acceptance with all. In some respects they may militate against the commonly received maxims of the present day. Education has been for many years a topic of general interest. It has been said indeed to be almost the one thing needful. The people, every one asserts, must be educated. If boys are taken away too early from school, we must teach them more while they are there. A certain amount of knowledge must be got into them. All this is thoroughly discussed in the Reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors--clothed in more popular language in leading articles of newspapers; Members of Parliament rush into it, and explain to their constituents after dinner, with more or less success, how it is all to be done. No one doubts about it, and the general conclusion 82 Adult Schools. is, that one way or other, our plans must be extended till they embrace every child in the land, and teach him everything which his nature admits of his being taught. And let it not be supposed that I demur to this, or yield to any one in the desire to see it accomplished; though, if the instruction of the masses formed my subject, which it does not to-night, except incidentally, I should be inclined to say that the most judicious improvement which has lately been proposed, is the extension of adult schools....