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...look at some of the consequences of this feebleness of our retentive powers. The disadvantages resulting from forgetfulness of studies are far from being the only ones. How often have we been baffled in trying to recall the incidents or the characters of a book which we have once read! What has been our mortification at ransacking our minds to no purpose for historical facts with which we were once perfectly familiar, and of which it is even a positive disgrace to be ignorant! A "Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" is no substitute for words which we wish to recall...
...that the mind opens and expands like a flower under the rays of the morning sun. Well, I regret to say it, in these normal schools there are no ideas communicated; instead of broadening, they have the contrary effect of narrowing one's views. The pupils are taught to read, write, and calculate arithmetical problems; they are instructed in religion, and, in fine, they are educated, or rather (for the word is not apt) are fashioned, like machines. During the three years that they pass here they turn upon their own footsteps without making a single advance, like the horses...
Conversing on literary matters, he remarked that though he had often attempted to read Milton's Paradise Lost he could not endure it. Shakespeare he liked exceedingly...
...will probably be opened formally next academic year. The girls who are here at present study hard, but in many cases do not keep up with their classes; and as a rule they are not ordinary girls by any means. Dr. Clarke's Sex in Education has been widely read, and the majority of the students hold substantially the same opinions as those expressed by the Doctor in the chapter on Coeducation...
...eight hundred francs a year. But this salary paid, the instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization has not yet penetrated - hesitate to pay this assessment. These people cannot themselves read, they cannot write, and yet they have lived, eaten, even amassed a little wealth, and perhaps have bought a piece of land. Very well; what need of learning in the management of their affairs! To milk cows or hold the plough requires no great amount of science. Then...