This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...and they will read the notes as easily as letters, and their musical talent will be freely developed. In the same manner, I put a pencil into their hands, and bid them imitate the objects around them. They were not very successful in this, and I thought they were disheartened by the want of resemblance; therefore I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...and they will read the notes as easily as letters, and their musical talent will be freely developed. In the same manner, I put a pencil into their hands, and bid them imitate the objects around them. They were not very successful in this, and I thought they were disheartened by the want of resemblance; therefore I gave them easy pictures to copy. You will be amused by the regularity with which their occupations alternate. We need some rules, or we shall forget; forms, you know, have been likened to casks, needed to contain the wine; rules have a similar virtue. Beside, I only describe what my school has been for several months; when they are tired of any exercise, or are proficients in it, I shall omit it, until they can return to it with pleasure. Do not suppose that I begin so many accomplishments and studies thus early from an undue desire to bring the children forward. I do it from a far-reaching economy; believing that moments now, while the organs are susceptible, are worth hours hereafter; and that we should not develope one sense more than another at an age when Nature has left them all equally open. By exercising all the inlets as equally as possible, physical and intellectual symmetry are preserved. This should be done at every period, but particularly in extreme youth. V Calisthenics 1 do not alternate; they are as needful one day as another. I am desirous to develope the children as fully in person as in mind; for by neglecting any one of our numerous muscles and organs, we bring on ourselves disease and feebleness.! We are not aware of what beauty the human form is capable, until we behold some rare and fine specimen; we are not aware of its nervous power, nntil we see the feats of some Arab or trained athlete; then we ask ourselves, "Was...
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