An autobiographyMy schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education . OK, THE ( STORY OF MY EDUCATION. ^.»fi BY HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OP the OLD BED SANDSTONE, FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR, FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE, ETC. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, —The silence that is in the starry sky, — The sleep that is among the lonely hills. Wordsworth. BOSTON:GOULD AND LINCOLN NEW YORK: SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & Q^.CINCINNATI: GEO. S. BLANCHART. 1857. \ THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 4:74607 A8T0R, LENOX AHA TILDEN F0UNDAT«OKt»
An autobiographyMy schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education . OK, THE ( STORY OF MY EDUCATION. ^.»fi BY HUGH MILLER, AUTHOR OP the OLD BED SANDSTONE, FOOTPRINTS OF THE CREATOR, FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE, ETC. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, —The silence that is in the starry sky, — The sleep that is among the lonely hills. Wordsworth. BOSTON:GOULD AND LINCOLN NEW YORK: SHELDON, BLAKEMAN & Q^.CINCINNATI: GEO. S. BLANCHART. 1857. \ THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 4:74607 A8T0R, LENOX AHA TILDEN F0UNDAT«OKt» 1901 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, byGOULD * IINCOLN,I the Clerka Office of the District Ooan of the District of Massachusetts. PRINTED BT aEORGK C. KAND & TO THE READER, It is now nearly a Imndred years since Goldsmithremarked, in his little educational treatise, tliat fewsubjects have been more frequently written upon thanthe education of youth. And during the centurywhich has well nigh elapsed since he said so, therehave been so many more additional works given tothe world on this fertile topic, that their number hasbeen at least doubled. Almost all the men who evertaught a few pupils, with a great many more whonever taught any, deem themselves qualified to saysomething original on education; and perhaps fewbooks of the kind have yet appeared, however medio-cre their general tone, in which something worthy ofbeing attended to has not actually been said. Andyet, though I have read not a few volumes on thesubject, and have dipped into a great many more, Inever yet found in them the sort of direction or en-couragement which, in working out my own education,I most needed. They insisted much on the various iv TO THE EEADER. modes of teacHn
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