The Educational System.
go
SECOND PRINCIPLE. that
it
Nature predisposes
matter so
shall seek form.
The
bird hatched desires to walk and to peck, and
finally desires to fly.
Wherefore (i.)
stirred
The
desire of
knowing and learning
in boys in every way.
up
is
to
be
edV ^s <iAo^a07s tvy
(Isoc.)
TroAv/ia^rjs.
Let the method of teaching lessen the labour of learning, so that nothing be a stumbling-block to the (2.)
pupil and deter from perseverance in study.
This ardour to acquire
who should learning
ready to
;
is
to
by teachers, who should be kind, paternal, and ; by schools, which should be plea-
commend
sant rooms, well lighted, clean, etc.
;
by
be excited by parents,
evince their respect for schoolmasters and
and adorned with pictures,
the things which the pupils study, which should
be so presented as to attract; by the method, which should be the natural method; and by magistrates, who should
be present
at examinations
THIRD PRINCIPLE. beginnings,
and
distribute rewards.
Nature draws out
all things from
which in their bulk are small, in
their virtue
strong.
Note
in connection with this
summed up (2.)
in
That every
rules,
rule
very
(i.)
short,
be conceived
in
That every but
very
art
be
exact.
words as brief as
(3.) That numerous examples be given they are lucid. with each rule, so that the applications of the rule,
however various, may be
clear.