Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-04

least If the teacher will use these for illustration, Pike's almost any other work, perhaps will an- swer for the pupil. In Geography, black board also to be used for representing the outlines ofcontinents seas islands, countries, mountains, rivers, &c Ol- ney's and Smiley's, believe considered, upon the whole, the best systems. Some, however, pre- fer Woodbridge's others Worcester's, others again the Matte Brun geography, which Is somewhat on the inductice plan. Either under judcious teacher and with constant reference to the accompanying maps, will secure competent knowledge of the subject. (Note. All geographes and maps are ceedngly deficient with respect to the western states The locality of Cincinnati, well as its means, in- teigence and enterprise, makes it desirable, that this deficiency may soon be supplied from thence.) In Grammar Kirhham's or Murray's, the former, in some respects preferable. For small children cards each with part of speech written or printed it, to be used-the cards being thrown promiscuously table, they required to pick out all the words that signify the of things these all the words that signify doing thlng these verbs, &c. The list of irregular verbs, which many mistakes occur, q done it the boiler bursted ho has went, &c should be carefully studied, and the pupils shown how to use them correctly. Dra,cing has not generally been taught in schools; but no ought to be ignorant of its importance in the business of life To be able, in half an hour, to make with led pencil sufficiently correct picture any com mon house, apartment, tool or instrument that we see, to model to copy from is certainly no tr6ing attainment. It is as certain, that to this tent it may easily be learned."-(Journal of Educa-
 
 should be studied in all seminares, such as am now speaking of-Grimshaw's recommended Geogra- Phy ofthe country always 10 prscede it, and recourse had to the map, in all cases, where the of any event or march of an army is not familiar to the mind "Geography and Chronology says Chester field, fare the two eyes of history" I say nothing, at present, of Botany, Geology, Mineralogy Natural History, &c. for, however proper and important parts of commOn English education they may be, the time, fear has not yet for their introduc- n hnrp tha portance of having, in every school Holbrook's ap- paratus for schools and academies, commonly called Infant School apparatus" Each set contains an orrery, set ofsolids, five maps, five inch globe a. | rlthmeticon, &c. Price in Philadelphia $l0. The Booksellers of Nashville have obligingly ordered on sets of this apparatus, which, it is expected. will be received shortly.
 Some remarks on elementary classical schools will close this essay Every branch of edacation noticed above will be taken for granted, Is either well un- derstood, when the pupil enters academy or the study of them will be prosecuted at stated periods, until they fully mastered. Algebra (Bonney- catle's) should be commenced and carried on, far Quadratic Equations, inclusive, during the acade- mical course. The black board recommended; and for the sake of emulation the same exercise on it. to be assigned to the whole class section at the same time. Ancient Geography should be carefully sudi- ed, either before or immediately with the study of Latin and Greek. The outline of the Meditenane- an, which may rightly be called the classic sea, to be represented paper the black board, together with its Islands, and countries it's coasts Nothing contributes more to the profit and pleasure of read ing the classics, than familiar acquaintance with ancient geography 1 would urge the importance of this subject because believe is not duly appre cated and is very generally neglected. On account of it's cheap and excellent Ancient Atlas would re- coIxmend Worcester's Geography entire for cassi- cal schools.
 menced until the pupil is eight years old. This per haps, is soon enough, in most cases though very considerable progress has been made at an earlier age. Addison records remarkable discovery made by an English traveller that the little children Tn France, speak French. Grammar to be used, Adams or Ruddman's, or almost any other that IS sufficiently simple. Essential parts of it only, to be learned first: that is, the models of nouns, adunc- lives, pronouns and verbs; emitting all exceptions which may be more easily and effectualy learned by reading. General principles of Synta1, only to be explained by the teacher at first, when the pupil is translating. Rules afterwards to be committed when the understanding help the memory- The pupil should be studiousy taught to refer every decnable word to its appropriate model in the gram mar. For this purpose recommended to write down, upon sheet of paper the aforementioned models, and to keep them constantly before him during reel tatons, until they become familiar. The simplest mode of parsing being doubtless the best, ask with regard to noun, only two things: the gender and what model it is declined lile thus itera is femi- nine, and like penna natiO is feminine, and like sermO, t&c &c. with regard to the other dccna- be parts of speech The pronunciation of the four verbs amo, doceo ego and audio should be accu- rately taught and the corresponding syllabes of all the corresponding verbs be carefully pronounced with the same quantity. A large amount of Proso- dy will, in this way, be easily learned. It mat ters little what books read first, provided they be easy enough. The following, however, are recommended, and, in the order in which they stand Liber Primusor Historic Sacra Visi Ro- me, Cornelius Nepos, with which Mairs Intro- duction or Latin Tutor should be commenced and Bricks Dictionary used-Selecte Profanis-Ce- sar's Comnlentaries-select parts of Orvid's Meta morphoses, with prosody-Saust with Ainsworth's Diciionary-Virgils Bucolics and six books of the Eneid, with prosody-Livy, five books-Cceros oratOns-Horace with prosody, beginning with the letters-wth Ovid, Tooke's Pantheon should be commenced and completed. Every sudden tshould also have Lemprere's Classical Dictionary (An- thon's edition, best) Mairs Latin Tutor to be read entire notes, illustrations, English sentences, &c. Young boys to be taught, rica cocc, the Latin names of all familiar sensible objects, and how to combine them in easy sentences.
 | Greek to be commenced with Nepos earlier- Grammar, Valpy's, and taught in the same manner as the Latin grammar, essential parts only first Quantity of long and short vowes to be carefully | observed at the beginning. General principles of Syntax merely explained at first, by the teacher at rectations. Books to be read: Valpy's Delectus, an excellent little work. Greca Minora or Greek Reader, with prosody of the poetical parts. With Graca Minera, Anthons Greek Exercises to be commenced, the first rule of which should be accom- panied with the study of the augments and the for nation of the lenses in grammar; tense with tense and voice with voice. The rules in Greek exercises | being learned, rather in order to teach them, would now begin to investigate comparatire syntaz, | by means of such questions these: What cases do adjunctives govern Latin2 What cases in Greek; What adectives govern the genitive in Latnl What | in Greek7 What the Gen. Dat. Acc in each an-