Notes relating to school apparatus.

Date:
[188?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes relating to school apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    /X Here, the school begins at 9 a. m. The first half-hour is spent in general exercises. In the case of the more intelligent, these consist of singing with a piano accompaniment. In the case of the lower grade ' of pupils, of marching in various waySjLwith a piano, to give an idea of time. At 9:30 all the pupils take their seats. Our school-rooms are so arranged that each child has a designated seat; and a desk or table in front. ' Then the classes are called. The pupils, when not in class, are supplied with something to occupy the attention, at their seats; if possible, something to do. The apparatus sent (if it is worthy the name) is designed for the lower grade of pupils. I St. To cultivate the perceptive faculties;—developing ideas of form, size,.position, color and combinations of form and color. 2nd. To give dexterity; the use of the hands and fingers. 3rd. To furnish some simple forms of occupation to the pupils when not in classes. It is to be understood, that every pupil is in a class at the Gymnasium at least one half-hour (in the early stages of instruction, usually two half-hours,) every day, under a gymnast or drill-master. The object of the training is not to develop the muscular system, but to develop the will. Incidentally also, the imitative faculty. Standing in a row in front of the