Education : its principles and practice / as developed by George Combe ; collated and edited by William Jolly.

  • Combe, George, 1788-1858.
Date:
1879
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    some, 495; not fairly tested, 495 • has got poor food, 496 : are happier when educated, 498 • should be consulted on their educa- tion, 498 ; are all capable of more than labour, 499 ; their having higher faculties proves capacity, 500 ; their universal improvement very slow, 500 ; personal advan- tages of education to, 501-507 • social advantages of education to,' 508-512; George Combe's early association with, 501 ; effects of the want of education on, 504-506; effects of education on their condi- tion, 506 ; their inferiority to the higher classes from want of educa- tion, 508; their state punishes the community, 508; their want of edu- cation endangers social order, 509, 513; and leaves them without ration al regulation, 510; will become fitter for civil duties by education, 511 ; begin to appreciate education, 512; possess share of ability among them,' 512 : their education necessary for general safety, 513; especially with increasing political power, 513, 514; and with universal suffrage, 515 ; their political power grows, 513, 514 : objections to their education! 523-538 {See Education, the Uni- versal, of the People): do not become too refined through Real education, 528 ; or restless and unhappy, 528, 532, or socially discontented, 531. Lalor's Prize Essay on Education 471. Lancashire Public School Association 238, 596. Lancaster's, Dr Edwin, Practical Physiology, 365. Lancaster, Joseph, his system of Mutual Instruction, 322; George Combe's opinion of it, 322 ; on edu- cational reform, liv, Iv, lvi ; his Tractate, lviii; his Improve- ments in Education, lviii, 473; trains teachers early, lxi. Language, what it is, 444 ; its func- tion, 71, 83, 447 ; its signification, on what dependent, 444 ; its relation to things, 83, 446 ; and to writing, 446; when separated from thought, 461; the effect, not the cause, of knowledge, 85. Language, the faculty, its functions, 443, 447, 660, 670 ; too much 755 appealed to in education, 426 • its tmimngwhen large and small, 441 its relation to other faculties, 444 4$ '• t ^ .0bS<rhlS fuc«lties , its effects when lar-e 446 when small, 447 ; its relation to memory, 464; in memory of names! 467 ; should t be firsU , used in education, 469 y Rp,1i' 7\ I9'' theiv Nations to taught than things, 70 ; what lan- guages should be taught, 26 89 • their results compared with those of Real education, 79, 83 ; their intel- lectual discipline, 80 ; as the bases of further knowledge, 80 ; as pre- paring for life, 82; discouraged in (secular schools, 256. Languages, foreign, the power of learning, 447; relation of a learner • to, 448 ; learning the spirit of 449. Latin, remains of words of, in Scotch schools, 390. Laurie's, J. W., Home and its Duties, 366. Laurie's, Simon S., Dick Bequest Report for 1865, 406 ; Primary Education, 473. Laws, our, their relation to religion 161. 8 ' Laycock's, Professor, The Scientific Place and Principles of Medical Psychology, 107. Learned Man, its original mean- ing, 72. Learning, its old meaning, 524, 524 note ; Prof. Nichol on, 525. Lectures, popular, begun, lx. Lee's, Dr Edwin, translation of Mar- tin's Education of Mothers, 104. Legislation, education required to im- prove, 516. Leinster, Duke of, letter of Lord Stanley to, on Irish education, 597. Leitch's, James, Practical Educa- tionists, 322, 406, 471, 636. Leslie, Prof., on geometry and fluxions, 433. Leverson, Dr R. M., on Social Science, 200 ; advocates William Ellis's principles of, 200; his Social Economy, 197 ; his Common Sense, 199. Lewis's, Dr Dio., New Gymnastics for Families and Schools, 365.