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...essay states that a small boy who is obliged to learn the English language is subjected to "one of the most mind-stunting processes that has ever formed a part of the general education of any people." Then again it says, "the child who has difficulty in learning to spell may be expected to develop strong logical faculties...
...truth of the first statement is perfectly obvious, even to the novice in educational matters; namely, any small boy that one meets on the streets shows that he is undergoing a process of "mental and moral stunting," traceable, of course, to his application to English in the primary schools. Going further up the scale, can any one observe the enervated and demoralized state of the average foreigner, after a short struggle with our tongue, without feeling what a terrible thing this language is? No remarks need be made about "ye student and his theme," for they always speak loudly...
...essay goes on to say, that the boy who lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine...
...account of the immaturity of students as follows: "Many people seem to suppose that at some epoch in the life of a young man the capacity to choose starts up of itself, ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit it is more dangerous. For building up a moral manhood...
...inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly mediate, and wait for the moving of the spirit. In order to accomplish this revolution, a few more changes are necessary. Abolish the boy choir, do away with ringing of the bell, strip the Chapel of its decorations, and finally remove the compulsory feature, and allow the Quaker-like spirit of devotion to manifest itself in its full voluntary aspect...