EDUCATION, STATE INTERFERENCE IN.

Dans une société bien ordonnée tout invite les hommes à cultiver leurs moyens naturels : sans qu'on s'en mêle, l'éducation sera bonne.

Mirabeau.

Non opus est necessario magnatibus ad emendationem educationis; sed sufficerent privati

conatus.

Leibnitz.

THE MAIN DUTY OF EDUCATORS.

The main duty of those who care for the young is to secure their wholesome, their entire growth; for health is just the development of the whole nature in its due sequences and proportions first the blade-then the ear-then, and not till then, the full corn in the ear; and thus, as Dr. Temple wisely says, "not to forget wisdom in teaching knowledge." If the blade be forced, and usurp the capital it inherits; if it be robbed by you its guardian of its birthright,

or squandered like a spendthrift, then there is not any ear, much less any corn; if the blade be blasted or dwarfed in our haste and greed for the full shock and its price, we spoil all three. It is not easy to keep this always before one's mind, that the young "idea" is in a young body, and that healthy growth and harmless passing of the time are more to be cared for than what is vainly called accomplishment.

Dr. John Bromm.

BEST METHOD OF TEACHING.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Burke.

THE SOUL WITHOUT EDUCATION.

I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none

of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which without such helps are never able to make their appearance.

Addison.

EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS.

Laß deine Tochter zwar recht einwurzeln und eingreifen in das wirthschaftliche Treiben; nur halte durch Religion und durch Dichtkunst das Herz für den Himmel offen; drücke die Erde fest an die nährende Wurzel der Pflanze, aber in ihren Kelch laß keine fallen.

Jean Paul Richter.

EARLY EDUCATION.

It appears to me to be a great fault in the education of our children that we take so little trouble to develop their senses by direct means.

In teaching little children of five or six years old to read, we mis-spend time which would be most profitably employed in playfully yet earnestly training their eyes to see, and their ears to hear, and their fingers to touch.

H. A.

INFANT MODESTY.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Harriet Martineau.

CHILDREN'S PRAYERS.

Children's prayers cannot be too simple: but it is not wise to inquire carefully whether the little ones understand every word they lisp; one thing they will not fail to understand-or, better, feel, that there is One to Whom every knee must bow, and every true heart turn.

H. A.

CHILDREN'S FAULTS.

Eckermann, in his "Conversations with Goethe," says Goethe likened the little way

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wardnesses of children to the stalk-leaves of a plant, which will fall away of themselves, and require no harsh treatment from the gardener.

NATURAL GRACE OF CHILDREN.

H. A.

Ce qui fait que la plupart des petits enfants plaisent, c'est qu'ils sont encore renfermés dans cet air et dans ces manières que la nature leur a donnés, et qu'ils n'en connaissent point d'autres. Il les changent et les corrompent quand ils sortent de l'enfance; ils croient qu'il faut imiter ce qu'ils voient, et il ne le peuvent parfaitement imiter, il y a toujours quelque chose de faux et d'incertain dans cette imitation. Ils n'ont rien de fixe dans leurs manières, ni dans leurs sentiments; au lieu d'être en effet ce qu'ils veulent paraître, ils cherchent à paraître ce qu'ils ne sont pas.

HOME JOYS.

La Rochefoucauld.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise