Let Him First Be a Man And Other Essays Chiefly Relating to Education And Cultu
Let Him First Be a Man And Other Essays Chiefly Relating to Education And Cultu
Venable William Henry
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They should be guarded and tended within the pale of the family until they arrive at the age of seven. At that age the first period of regular school education should begin, to continue for seven years. Another and higher course of education, also of seven years' dura- tion, should complement the training of boyhood, STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION 1/5 and complete the citizen for the highest duties of life, both private and pubHc. The eighth book of Aristotle's Politics, evidently a fragme...nt, treats of the studies suitable to the period of boyhood, and embraces many critical remarks on prevailing usage among the Greeks. Lacedaemon is especially recommended as being the only city in which education receives proper attention from the state. Four branches are named, in the Politics, as com- prising the matter which it was customary to teach children. These are reading, gymnastics, music, and painting. The utility of reading is taken for granted, not only for its own sake, but also as a means of ac- quiring other sorts of learning.
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