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Identifier: oldtimeschoolss00john (find matches)
Title: Old-time schools and school-books
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: Education Textbooks
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in England, andwere men of more than ordinary capacity and expe-rience. Our own Harvard, too, sent forth manygraduates who found places in the schools as wellas in the pulpits. The teachers were all deeply im-bued with that religious spirit which characterized THE ENGLISH SCHOOL-MASTER. Teaching all his Scholars, of what age foever, themoft eafy, fhort, and perfeftor-der of diftinA Reading, and true Writing ourEnglifh-tongut, that hath ever yet beenknown or publifhed by any. Portion of the Title-page of a popular Text-book first published in 1596. the Puritan epoch, for this was the trend of theirwhole training. Their college studies were thestudies of a divinity school. There was some arith-metic and geometry, physics and science, but asfor the rest — it was grammar, logic, and rhetoric;politics and ethics; Chaldee, Hebrew, and Syriac;biblical and catechetical divinity. The earliest spelling-book was Cootes The Eng-lish School-Master-, a thin quarto of seventy-two Begin ginnings 21
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fqrj3fo~:J£ff&ijru m George-//an) m Lombard Avert Frontispiece to a Speller entitled, A Rational Way of Teaching, 1688. 22 Old-time Schools and School-books pages, first published in 1596. It continued to beextraordinarily popular for over a century. Accord-ing to the title-page, he which hath this Bookonly, needeth to buy no other to make him fit fromhis Letters to the Grammar-School, or for an Appren-tice. Besides spelling, it contained arithmetic, his-tory, writing lessons, prayers, psalms, and a shortcatechism. To add to the intricacy, much of thetext was printed in old English black letter. Another ancestral speller was Englands PerfectSchool-M after, by Nathaniel Strong, London, 1676,of the editing and use of which the author says inhis The Epiftle to the Reader rPon confideration of the bad reading of many, who knownot how scarcely to spell any word rightly: I have fortedall the zvords I could think of and ranked them in particularTables. By this Book a Lad may be taught t

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