OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM

OF

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

OUTLINE OF A SYSTEM

OF

NATIONAL EDUCATION.

"Aujourd'hui nous recevons trois éducations différentes ou con-
traires; celles de nos pères, celle de nos mâitres, celle du monde. Ce
qu'on nous dit dans la dernière, renverse toutes les idées des premières.
Cela vient, en quelque partie, du contraste qu'il y a, parmi nous, entre les
engagemens de la religion et ceux du monde; chose que les anciens ne
connaissaient pas."

MONTESQUIEU.

LONDON:

COCHRANE AND MICRONE,

WATERLOO PLACE.

MDCCCXXXIV.

G. WOODFALL, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET, LONDON.

1199155-190

OUTLINE,

ETC.

CHAPTER I.

Quam multa fieri non posse, priusquam sint facta, judicantur? Naturæ vero hominum vis atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret, si quis modo partes ejus ac non totam complectatur animo."-PLIN.

EDUCATION is a means to an end: the development and formation of the character, mental and bodily. It includes every thing which furthers that end.

Education is systematic, and is a science or an art, as it refers to principles or their application.

Systematic education is the development of some, or all man's powers, for the attainment of a special or a general end. The former may be styled partial, or sometimes professional; the latter, general education.

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