American Annals Of Education And Instruction For The Year 1834 Vol 4 Classic Reprint

Author : Fordyce Hubbard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266663300
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book American Annals of Education, for the Year 1839, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint) written by Fordyce Hubbard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Annals of Education, for the Year 1839, Vol. 9 Among the first to discover, and to hold forth to public view, the strange error of excluding the vernacular language from the systems of public or private education, was the very learned prelate, Bishop Lowth; who not only opposed to it the strength of his reasoning and the weight of his authority, but also provided for it the practical means of correction, by publishing his excellent Introduction to English Grammar, which first appeared in 1765. This is, indeed, an admira ble work; possessing the rare merit of being at once philo sophical and popular: 11 book, which the accomplished schol ar peruses and admires, and which the youthful learner reads and understands. Almost, it may be said, from the date of that publication, and greatly in consequence of it, the study of the English language has assumed the place, to which it is entitled in every wise and well considered plan of Eng lish education. It might easily be supposed that Dr Parr, scarcely lea eminent as an English scholar and an English writer than as a man of classical learning, would not be slow to approve and to adopt so necessary and so important an amendment in the present system of education; and accordingly, it ap pears that much attention was devoted in Stanmore School to the cultivation of the English language, by the study of its grammar, and the perusal of its best writers, and espec ially by the frequent composition of English themes. For these last, questions preposed or approved by the tutor, were given on topics principally of history, either ancient or mod ern; of ethics, and sometimes even of theology; and before he dismissed the young writers to their task, in the course of an address of some length, in which all his own wonder ful powers of speaking were displayed, he placed before them, in clear view and in full detail, the whole subject, on which theywere required to think and to write. 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.