It is vastly more important for a young lady, in the social circle, to know how to sing, than to comprehend all the mysteries even of cube root, square root, algebra and geometry. A gentle voice is a pleasant thing in a woman. We think the course of study in the grammar schools might be slightly modified for the better. One half the time in all the schools is devoted to arithmetic the grand hobby of American teachers, and Yankee ones, in particular while penmanship, drawing, and spelling receive comparatively little attention. In this respect, our primary schools are a quarter of a century behind the European.
Education is development the harmonious development of all the faculties of man's nature.
The perceptive and expansive faculties, and training, as well as the reasoning and reflective. Feeling, affection, and sympathy are better teachers than cold, reasoning intellect. The truest teaching is something intangible an electric fire, which cannot be set down in figures and percentages, by examining committees. A teacher with a great heart is better than one with a great head. It will always be so, while children have souls as well as brains .