The book The Parents Manual Or Home And School Training was written by author Hiram Orcutt Here you can read free online of The Parents Manual Or Home And School Training book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Parents Manual Or Home And School Training a good or bad book?
What reading level is The Parents Manual Or Home And School Training book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This emphasis on moral and pa triotic culture in the old schoolhouse was one of the most powerful elements of our national success. The common school of our day has made great progress in the line of out ward accommodations, and methods of scientific and literary instruction ; but we may fear that it is losing its original power as the national teacher of public character. As a scientific agency, it has been prodigiously enlarged; but it is in danger of losing that which once made it our nation...al sheet-anchor, as the natu ral teacher of public virtue, and the training-school of American citizenship. Intellectual brilliancy is too often, un der the name of "culture, " allowed to override every thing. Instruction in 18 206 THE PARENTS MANUAL. Morals and patriotism are too much neg lected. Our government is founded upon the principles of Christianity ; and hence the Bible, which is our text-book of Christian morals, should not only be retained, but faithfully taught in our schools, not to impart dogmas and creeds, but to im press its own purifying and life-giving precepts upon the tender heart of child hood.
User Reviews: