Xix Xx Centuries

Author : James Knowles
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334931345
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After; XIX-XX, Vol. 53 written by James Knowles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-08 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century and After; XIX-XX, Vol. 53: A Monthly Review, January-June, 1903 Two reasons - two presentable reasons, that is to say - may be assigned for this choice. A theory had been set up - having no known origin and applied to no other system of education - that religious and secular instruction must be given by the same teacher. No doubt this combination of functions had its advantages. It set the clergy free for other work, and it secured some knowledge of the art of teaching in the teacher. It is to be feared that by the side of the schoolmaster the vicar of the parish often showed to disadvantage. He had never learnt how to give a lesson, and he, and the children, soon discovered that to do so is seldom a matter of intuition. On the other hand, the effective teaching of religion demands something more than mere technical aptitude and the power of keeping order in a class. It requires a strong sense of the importance of the work the teacher has taken upon himself and of the part that religion plays in the formation of character. In theory the schoolmaster in a Church school had been chosen for his religious quite as much as for his secular qualifications. But the secular qualifications were far more easily tested and the absence of them entailed the loss of the Government grant. In many cases, therefore, the fact that a teacher had been a student at a Church Training College was held sufficient as a religious test, and it is difficult to say what other could have been suggested for general adoption. But when two years' residence at a Church Training College became a regular mode of entry into the teaching profession it necessarily ceased to have any religious significance. I once asked the Principal of a great training college what the religious standard among the students was. Very much, ' he said, what it is among the young men from whom they are taken.' With most of them the professional side of their work was more absorbing than the religious side. They got up a certain minimum of religious know ledge, but there their interest in the subject ended. It is evident that teachers of this quality were not likely to do much towards the creation of that special atmosphere which is often described as the glory of a Church school. That the existence of such an atmosphere is a very great advantage from the point of view of religion, I should be the last to deny. But I contend first that it is not created by the mere fact that the teachers come from St. Mark's or Whitelands, and next that where it exists it must necessarily constitute a very serious grievance to Nonconformists. It is an awkward fact that in some parishes there is only one school and that a Church school. In the great majority of cases Nonconformist parents have not, so far as appears, objected to this. The religious character of the school has6 the nineteenth century Jan. 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.