Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-01-24
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THE HALF DAY, ONE SESSION Garden
AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

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your meta. brains for the purpose of lit
tie public thought on education.
Education is universal in supply of
means. God would not create a race OF
beings whose best good depends on the pos
session of knowledge,-and not furnish
the power to acquire that knowledge He
has not created such a race. He could
not do it. 1t becomes important then, to
inquire whether the equal daily devel-
opmcnt of body and mind is the way to
realize the efficacy of all our educational
instrumentalities and whether the cur
rent system of schools derived from the
Papal cloister should not be examined by
the light of truth.
The great thing overlooked is this: the
child cannot do anything else very i'm
portant in his tender childhood but secure
his education in letters. Is not this child
hood the period providcntial y appro-
priated to his education; by the equal
union ofphysica and intellectual discipline
which has never yet been tried There
has never been school trial of this uu.
ion of body and mind.
This united discipline of body and mind
in education has had thousands of indi.
vidual examples of perfect success. But
no school trial has ever been made.
To shut child up from niue in the
morning till four in the afternoon, absorbs
the appropriate time and does not leave
sufficient for full physical action. The
child cannot act at mid night, but at mid
day: "If any man walk in the night he
stumbleth." Hence. If a child is to be
physicaly educated he must hare daylight
in such an arrangement of hours for &C
ton as to give him natural, quiet pro.
cess of that action to the full ertemt Of
his po,oer and ability to act. No such pc.
riod Of full absorbing. natural bodily en-
ployment can be secured, if the child be
confined from nine in the morning till
four in the afternoon in school. | know
it is quite difficult to conceive Of rudi,
mentary school which shall employ any
Of these midday hours otherwise than on
the study-benches. But if air and light,
action and labor. food and its perfect d.
gestion are indispensable sources of brain
and nervous power, the child must spend
part of each day-a part of his school
day-so as to enjoy this air, action and
food in such manner as to secure this pow
err, and his school hours must be- modified
to allow it to be secured
There is no general and effective educa-
tional enlightenment possible but by the
equal bodily and mental Development of the
child from first to last. and it is of no use
for anyone to fud fault with anything
else hut the want of this equal develop.
mcnt So long as present school hours
are retained. so long the effective enlight-
ement of the world must be deferred No
other change will answer but such an one
AS shall allow full bodily and mental de-
velopment in the same day.
Does the power reside within the prov
ince Of man to change these school hours,
which have remained unchanged, and till
recently unquestioucd, through all the
revolutions which have swept and mould.
ed the earth since the revival Of letters
Plain enough no dire necessity compcls
the divorce of equal action of the body
and mind of the child, and compcls the
necessity of ignorance. The forenoon can
be given to mental education in sch DOL,
and the afternoon to bodily education out
IF school, and wherever desired, a garden
may be attached 10 any district school at
any amount of expense desired, but. gar
den or no garden, nothing but evil can
come of two sessions for pupils who have
not physical constitution built up and
fortified by physical development.
A continuous school can be secured for
all by this means; for if three hours each
day be not spcnt in school it will be spent
in wasteful idlcness which will be can.
ker to all his time and energies. Such a
daily constant school would impart free
of cost a vastly greater amount Of intel.
lisence, occupying the entire childhood
than is now obtained, by roke attend.
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