. Review of reviews and world's work. .IfDGIXC; HOUSKS. LEARNING BY DOING AT HAMPTON. 427. CLASS STUDYING KOOTS. ing; is of a kind that meansto perpetuate the race oflaundresses. Children taughtin this .way are able to be ofsome use at home, and canstand any amount of subse-quent book-larnin with-out being made good fernuffin. The same principles applyin the instruction of the-sev-eral liundred young women,negroes and Indians, who arepupils in the institute. Theymay and generally do acquiresome accomplishments. Butthese are all supported uponthe firm foundation of prac-tical capacity in common


. Review of reviews and world's work. .IfDGIXC; HOUSKS. LEARNING BY DOING AT HAMPTON. 427. CLASS STUDYING KOOTS. ing; is of a kind that meansto perpetuate the race oflaundresses. Children taughtin this .way are able to be ofsome use at home, and canstand any amount of subse-quent book-larnin with-out being made good fernuffin. The same principles applyin the instruction of the-sev-eral liundred young women,negroes and Indians, who arepupils in the institute. Theymay and generally do acquiresome accomplishments. Butthese are all supported uponthe firm foundation of prac-tical capacity in commonthings. It is enough to saythat the dignity and worth of plain labor are infinitelybetter appreciated and un-derstood by the young ne-groes at the end of theirHampton course than at thebeginning. To explain with precisionall the methods by whichagi-icultui-al and industrialtraining on the one hand andacademic instruction on theother are so carried on atHampton that they seem toblend naturally, would neces-sitate the writing of an articlemuch more precise and ped-agogical than this brie


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