Download or read book The Canada Educational Monthly and "School Magazine", Vol. 4 written by G. Mercer Adam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Canada Educational Monthly and "School Magazine," Vol. 4: January to December, 1882 To cheat themselves and their master, when they have so fair an opportunity to do it. From Clarke's preface I extract a passage or two with which no one can help sympathizing, though happily not so applicable to schools in our day as they were in 1818, the date of the Corderius before us: The little progress made in our schools, says Mr. Clarke in 1818, or earlier, the first four or five years which boys spend there, is really amazing, and would naturally tempt a person of any re ection to suspect there must be some very great aw, some notorious mismanagement, in the common method of proceeding. How else comes it to pass that the French tongue is attained to a good degree of perfection in half the time which is spent in the Latin tongue to no manner of purpose? A boy shall be brought in two years to read and speak the French well whereas, in double time or more, spent at a Grammar School, he shall be so far from talking and writing Latin, that he shall not be able to read half a dozen lines in the easiest classic au thor you can put into his hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."