A System for the Education of the Young; Applied to All the Faculties

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... 307 CHAPTER X. RELIGIOUS OR BIBLE EDUCATION FOR BOYS. Utility of pictorial illustrations of Scriptural subjects--Who should give religious instruction--Consequences of the neglect of religious culture--Mr. Owen's " Social System"--" The Revivals"--Evils arising from violent party feelings--We should receive the national education offered--The Bible should not be prostituted to a task book--Beautiful theories not always workable--What is religion?--The mind must be prepared to receive it--Ignorance of some teachers on this subject--Dreadful effects of evil example--Children must be taught not alone to say but to do what is right--Schoolmasters should not be violent political partizans--The public mind will no longer be deceived by externals--The clergy must not be excluded from the schools--The school-master should not be independent of the clergyman--No scheme of education can be perfect at first--Mr. Wyse, M. P.--Professed Christians do not act up to their profession--Folly of cramming children with doctrinal creeds--A more rational system wanted--Specimens of Seripture lessons--Daniel in the lion's den--The story of Ananias and Sapphira--Incidental discourse and hymn--Concluding observations--Letter of Lord Brougham on national education. It will be seen by what I have said on the subject of religious education for girls, that I consider the Bible as a sine qua non in every school for children of either sexes, who are above seven years of age; and that even in infant schools for the youngest children, I consider pictorial representations on certain subjects, judiciously chosen from the Sacred Volume, equally or more important. The Scriptures abound with suitable subjects, and God grant that some able, clever, and judicious artist may...