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In the present volume the author has endeavored so to present the subject of popular education, which should have reference to the whole man -- the body, the mind, and the heart -- and so to unfold its nature, advantages, and claims, as to make it every where acceptable. Nay, more, he would have a good common education considered as the inalienable right of every child in the community, and have it placed first among the necessaries of life. For the better ...
Teaching is so delicate and responsible in its nature, and what so far reaching in its results, as that of the parent to his offspring? Or that of the teacher to his pupils? And what positions are more thoughtlessly assumed, or sustained with less solicitude, than are these, in perhaps the great majority of cases! It is lamentable to consider how many parents there are- and how many teachers, even- who never thoughtfully consider the ends of human life, and the ...