The Canada Educational Monthly Vol 10

Excerpt from The Canada Educational Monthly, Vol. 10: And "School Magazine", January to December, 1888 "Men would hardly fight about the best method of going up a ladder; but a hundred battles have been fought on the best method of training a child." So writes the about conditions or limitations shall it be author of Ecce Deus; and it is evident that the battles have not all been fought yet. We need not wonder that diversity of views should prevail regarding the matter of religious teaching in the Public Schools. I accept Mr. Le Sueur's ''open letter" in the issue of the Monthly for December as the honest and candid expression of his convictions on this subject, and I shall endeavour to state my objections to his position in the "spirit of candour and equit)" in which he desires that discussion should be carried on. There are at least three distinct questions which need to be answered, and which are variously answered, in connection with this matter: (1) Shall there be a religious element in the education of our children in the Public Schools? (2) Shall the Bible be used in imparting religious instruction? (3) If so, under what used? I am not quite sure what answer Mr. Le Sueur would give to the first question; but, if I have not misapprehended the drift of his letter, he would answer it in the negative. True, he speaks with approval of recognizing or being conscious of "a Cause behind all other causes," and of feeling "that the true word and righteous deed have a warrant higher than human society can vouchsafe"; but he does not admit that this belief about "the supernatural" should be inculcated on the children. Two passages in his letter seem to imply the contrary: (1) "In this country we are supposed to enjoy religious liberty. By this I understand that all creeds, positive and negative, stand on an equality before the law - that, so far as the action of the State is concerned, no man either reaps any advantage or is placed at any disadvantage on account of his religious opinions." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Canada Educational Monthly, Vol. 10: And "School Magazine," January to December, 1888 EN would hardly fight about the best method of going up a ladder; but a hundred battles have been fought on the best method of training a child. So writes the author of Eeee Deus; and it is evi dent that the battles have not all been fought yet. We need not wonder that diversity of Views should prevail regarding the matter of religi ous teaching in the Public Schools. I accept Mr. Le Sueur's open letter in the issue of the Monthly for December as the honest and can did expression of his convictions on this subject, and I shall endeavour to state my objections to his position in the spirit of candour and equity in which he desires that discussion should be carried on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Canada Educational Monthly and "School Magazine", Vol. 6: January to December, 1884 An essential element in modern school education is the annual torture of examinations. This is a pinchbeck form of the doctrine of the "survival of the fittest" applied to schools, for on the results of these examinations depends the question of promotion of the pupils and efficiency on the part of teachers. The percentages obtained in these examinations are taken as the indices of the pupil's intellectual growth, and of the power of the teacher to foster and promote such growth. The highest value is thus affixed to such educational agencies as are able to formulate their results completely at the end of a single term, and the same spirit and principle reach into each day's achievement, each recitation and each single effort on the part of pupil and teacher. The educational process thus becomes a wrestle with words and formulas that the memory may subject them to its uses for recitation and examination. The age is full of the spirit of reform, but educational reform will be an idle dream so long as reformers and critics laud the successes wrought out by pernicious methods, and, while declaiming against "cramming," adjust their eyeglasses with great complacency, and commend in the highest terms those types of perfection which can only be attained by the most persistent and deadly cramming. So long as the teacher's professional status with directors and parents depends on the number of pupils promoted and the value of their averages, i so long we may expect that young eyes, opening to a vision of the world and life's possibilities, will be blinded by the dust of words ; so long the vitality of the future will be sacrificed to this much of folly in the schoolroom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Canada Educational Monthly and "School Magazine," Vol. 18: January to December, 1896 So must the crowning of knowledge he attended by the expulsion of the fairies from the imagination of little children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Canada Educational Monthly and "School Magazine," Vol. 4: January to December, 1882 Example, when seen occupying their stalls of a Sunday, along the two sides of their magnificent chapel, unique in Europe for its beauty, a miracle of architecture, three hundred and sixteen feet in length and eighty four in width. In 1851, however, King's College magnanimously sur rendered its exclusive privileges and now the eleves of that society go into the general examinations and take their chance with the rest of the students of Cambridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.