• This Number (XX.) begins a new year (1860) and a new Volume (VIII.,) and F. B. PERKINS, HARTFORD, CT. THE American Journal of Education. No. XX.-MARCH, 1860. CONTENTS. 2. Education-its nature and value,.. 3. Parents and Teachers-their duties,. PAGE. VII. INSTRUCTION IN NATURAL SCIENCE. By Karl von Raumer,. 1. Difficulties in the extent of the subject,. 2. Objections to this study in the gymnasia,. 4. Where and how to begin instruction,. 5. Science and art should be joined,.. 6. Mathematics and laws of nature,.. 7. Instruction in mineralogy,... 8. Characteristics of pupils,.. 10. Necessary inconsistency,.. 11. "Mysteriously revealed," or unavoidable obscurity,. 12. Natural law and moral freedom,.. Conclusion. Devotional method of investigating nature,. NOTE. Collections or museum for teaching mineralogy,. VIII. GEOMETRY. By Karl von Raumer,. Geometry and Euclid synonymous,......... Opinion of Montücla, Leibnitz, Lorenz of Euclid's “Elements," 64 XIII. THE PUBLIC OR FOUNDATION SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND,. General characteristics. By Rev. J. D. Collis,. Dates and number of grammar schools,. Suggestions for making them more useful,.. Benefactors and foundation of the principal Public Schools,. 1. William of Wykeham, and Winchester College,.. 2. Henry VI., and Eton College............... 3. Dean Colet and St. Paul's School,. 4. Edward IV., and Christ's Hospital,. 5. Westminster College School,.... 6. Lawrence Sheriff, and Rugby School,. 7. John Lyon, and Harrow School,. Illustrations.-Upper school-room,....... The Servants' Chamber at Winchester,. 267 267 268 Public bakery, and co-operative societies,. Provident society and assurance,...... THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION for 1860 will be published quarterly ; viz., on the 15th EACH NUMBER will contain at least 320 pages, and will be embellished with at least one por- trait, and with wood-cuts illustrative of recent improvements in buildings, apparatus, and furniture designed for educational purposes. TERMS. FOR A SINGLE COPY, one year, (1860,) or for Numbers 20, 21, 22, and 23,.............. $4.00 Volumes I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII. can be had for $2.50 per volume in numbers, or for $3,00 A circular, containing a GENERAL INDEX to Volumes I., II., III., IV., V., will be sent by mail POSTAGE, at the office of delivery, paid in advance, will be about 36 cents for the four numbers F. B. PERKINS, Hartford, Conn. I. EDUCATIONAL APHORISMS AND SUGGESTIONS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. We had made some preparation for a series of articles in successive numbers of this Journal, embodying the most remarkable sayings, more or less aphoristic, of wise and good men, in different countries and in different ages, on the subject of Education and Schools, when we found the labor of collecting very much abridged in a volume of Dr. J. F. T. Wohlfarth, of Kirchhasel, in the Principality of Schwarzberg-Rudolstadt-entitled "The Pedagogical Treasure-Casket :* a Theory of Education, set forth in the most remarkable expressions of the wise men of ancient and modern times.” The matter is arranged under the following heads : I. Man-his dignity and destiny. VI. Female Education. VII. Intellectual Culture. VIII. Subjects and Means of Education. 1. Language. 2. Natural Science. 3. Geography. 4. History. 5. Mathematics. 6. Philosophy. 7. Books. 8. Poetry. 9. Music. IX. Religious Instruction. X. Discipline. XI. Example. The contents are introduced by the following Preface. During the preparation of his "Pedagogy from a Practical Stand-point," the idea of a collection of the more remarkable expressions of the wise men of all times, on a subject so steadily increasing in importance as that of education, had occurred to the editor with the more force because such an anthology was not forthcoming for his own use, and because it seemed to him that it would furnish a store of incitements to a holy enterprise not to be found in any other way, would disseminate the most fruitful seeds, and would offer a species of guide, Padagogisches Schatzkastlein." Von Dr. J. F. Th. Wohlfarth. ... pages. Gotha, 1857. 416 |