. School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress. d the prayers of cockering mothersand the requests of indulgent fathers. He belongs to the best type of the Humanist,and regards education rather from the point ofview of all-round development and training than asthe acquisition of knowledge , encyclopedic in cha-racter. He adopted a wise precaution in his treat-ment of weak and precocious children. He adaptsthe curriculum to each child. He presupposes child-study. His works bear evidence that he closelyobserved those under his charge. When gerundgrinding and verbalism occupied th
. School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress. d the prayers of cockering mothersand the requests of indulgent fathers. He belongs to the best type of the Humanist,and regards education rather from the point ofview of all-round development and training than asthe acquisition of knowledge , encyclopedic in cha-racter. He adopted a wise precaution in his treat-ment of weak and precocious children. He adaptsthe curriculum to each child. He presupposes child-study. His works bear evidence that he closelyobserved those under his charge. When gerundgrinding and verbalism occupied the front placein the curriculum he girded at the fetish, andstrenuously insisted on the necessity of first ac-quiring the mother tongue. He recognised thatteachers, few of whom were good, would not adoptteaching as their life work owing to low remunera-tion. He believed in the training of those who hadto train the young. But he did not under-estimate the value of aclassical education. A knowledge of Latin, indis- C r(A S. n oo r c2 G ro> KCA c > (X pi(/). EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PROGRESS 137 pensable to the scholar, enabled the traveller totraverse Europe with ease, and opened up theworlds best literature to the reader. He recognisedthat the mother tongue formed the true foundationupon which to work. Ahead of his contemporariesin this, he also admitted drawing within the range ofhis training subjects, and introduced music, which hecalled a medicine from heaven against our sorrowson earth. The everlasting interaction of body and mind is atheme upon which he enlarges, and he writes atlength upon the care of the body and the attain-ment of healthy physical development. Theimportance he attached to due attention to ahealthy body in relation to a healthy mind can beestimated from the fact that twenty-seven chaptersof the Positions are devoted to the subject. While it is well known that the girls of well-to-dofamilies received an excellent education in his days,the daughters of
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