A System for the Education of the Young; Applied to All the Faculties

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 337 OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM OP NATIONAL EDUCATION. Before commencing this chapter, it may be necessary to state the advantage of having three schools near together, or if possible, on the same premises, that is to say, an Infant School in one building, of which dimensions shall be given in another place; Girls' School in another building; and Boys' Schools in another; to each of these there should be separate play-grounds, totally distinct from each other, fenced off, so that the children cannot, if possible, see each other; there should be separate entrances into each school, and by no means should the entrance be through the play-ground, as this is almost, if I may be allowed the expression, sacred ground. Brothers and sisters, who come for the children, and I am sorry to say, even parents, will steal the fruit and flowers, and if this is seen by the children, it does more injury than can be eradicated for many months. I have also known, and I grieve to say it, even visitors too have been guilty of the same offences; and I have known a respectable person pluck the flowers, and give them to her children. Nurse-maids are constantly in the habit of doing the same thing, without, for a moment, considering the impropriety of the act, and when it has been pointed out to them, their answer, has been, Dear me ! I thought it no harm 1 but the trained infant pupils have thought very differently on the subject; they have run into the teacher with the greatest consternation, saying, Please, teacher, there has been a lady stealing the fruit, or a nurse-maid stealing the flowers; andplease, sir, do you know she gave them to some little children that were with her, which will teach them to do the same thing. It is also of the highest importance, that separate places of convenience be erected, and that the pup...