Little Frankie At School Classic Reprint

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331485766
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Frank (Classic Reprint) written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Frank In offering these little books to those kind mothers who attend to the early instruction of their children, the authors beg leave to prefix a few observations on early education which have occurred to them since the former parts of these books were published. We found, to our high gratifications, during a visit which we lately paid to England, that the attention of parents, in every rank of society, was turned to the early education of their children. Formerly a child was left, during the first eight or ten years, to chance, in every part of its education except its book and keeping its clothes clean - the mother or nursery-maid attended to the latter, for their own sakes - the father, remembering the praise that had been bestowed upon himself when he was a child, was anxious that his son should learn to read as soon as possible. The object was to cram children with certain commonplaces of knowledge, to furnish them with answers to ready-made questions, to prove that the teacher, whether parent, schoolmaster, or private tutor, had kept the pupil's memory, at least, at hard work, and had confined his limbs and his mind for many hours in the day, to study. At present, the attention of parents is more extended; they endeavour to give their pupils reasonable motives for industry and application. They watch the tempers and dispositions of children; they endeavour to cultivate the general powers of the infant understanding, instead of labouring incessantly to make them reading, writing, and calculating machines. To assist them in these views, parents have now a number of excellent elementary books. Such a variety of these have of late years been published, that by a proper use of them, more general knowledge can be now acquired by a child, with two hours' daily application, than could have been acquired, fifty years ago, by the constant labour of ten hours in the four-and-twenty. 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.