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School education

Chapter 108: FOOTNOTES
By Charlotte M. Mason
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The author presents a practical and philosophical account of school education arguing that the child is a full person and that education should be a continuous Science of Relations, putting learners in living contact with nature, literature, and thought. The work critiques piecemeal reforms, examines thinkers such as Pestalozzi, Froebel, Herbart and Kant, and advocates a liberal, testable law to guide curricula. It recommends integrating nature study, handicrafts, languages, mathematics, and moral or spiritual knowledge, and cultivating gradual self-direction from infancy toward mature independence.

FOOTNOTES

[1] The Story of My Life, by Augustus Hare (George Allen).

[2] Outlines of Psychology.

[3] ‘Person’ is used in the common-sense, everyday acceptance of the word.

[4] Lehrbuch zur Psychologie, Part III., sects. 152, 153 (see Herbartian Psychology, by J. Adams).

[5] The references here and after are to the distinctive thought and work of the Parents’ National Educational Union.

[6] Cf. Coleridge’s Method.

[7] The Parents’ National Educational Union.

[8] Sonnenschein & Co.; 3s.

[9] Quoted by Mr Lewis in The Child and its Spiritual Nature.

[10] The Parents’ National Educational Union.

[11] The Parents’ Union.

[12] ‘La Discessa dello Spirito Santo’ and ‘Allegoria filosofica della Religione Cattolica,’ to be had from Mr G. Cole, 1 Via Torna Buoni, Florence (shilling size, Nos. 4077 and 4093).

[13] Of ‘The Parents’ Union.’

[14] Pastor Pastorum, by H. Latham, M.A., page 6.

[15] The italics are mine.

[16] The Prelude.

[17] Students of Love’s Meinie and Proserpine will know what rich compensations later life brought for the child’s disadvantages.

[18] The Secret of the Presence of God. Masters.

[19] The Prelude.

[20] “The Schoolmaster,” by H. C. Benson, of Eton College.—Nineteenth Century, December 1902.

[21] Spectator, 2nd August 1902.

[22] Education, 16th April 1903.

[23] See Through Hidden Shensi, by F. Nichols.

[24] It is highly encouraging that the new regulations of the Board of Education both for primary and secondary schools lend themselves to the lines of work advocated in these pages.

[25] See note at the end of the volume.

[26] The writers have been in two minds about the spelling of words marked [26].

[27] After this the answer was dictated.

[28] The writers have been in two minds about the spelling of words marked [28].

[29] The writers have been in two minds about the spelling of words marked [29].

[30] A large number of complete sets of examination answers may be seen at the office, and further information can be had from the Secretary, P.N.E.U., 26 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

[31] Where the Gouin Series are not taken, French, German, and Italian should be taught orally, teacher repeating aloud, pupil reciting after her.

[32] Subjects thus indicated to be marked by the parents according to Regulations.