Color-names, color-blindness, and the education of the color-sense in our schools / by B. Joy Jeffries.

  • Jeffries, B. Joy (Benjamin Joy), 1833-1915.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Color-names, color-blindness, and the education of the color-sense in our schools / by B. Joy Jeffries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    COLOR CHART FOR THE PRIMARY EDUCATION OF the COLOR-SENSE. By Dr. HUGO MAGNUS, ^Docent in Ophthalmology, iti the University at Breslau, ■ AND B. JOY JEFFRIES, A. M., M. D. (Harvard). The need of proper means for teaching the elements of color in public schools has long been felt, and various attempts have been made to supply apparatus suitable for the purpose. The Color Chart designed by Dr. Hugo Magnus of Breslau, and adapted for use in American schools by Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, is believed to meet all necessary requirements. The chart contains the following standard colors: Brown, Crimson, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, with four shades to each color in addition. Two cards for each color are furnished for the use of pupils. The chart is accompanied by a manual for teachers, in which its practical use in the school-room is fully explained. COMMENDATIONS. This chart has received the highest commendation from distinguished scientists^ educators, etc., from amoug which the following are taken : — From Dr, A. Von Feuss, in the Vienna Medical Press. In urging the introduction of color-teaching in the primary schools, I am but asking what has long ago been done for the ear. Music is taught in all the schools, and I will not ask whether this is not secondary to the education of the color-sense. Moreover, for this there is no call for a new subject and study among botli teacher and scholar. Color-teach- ing must commence as early as possible in the kindergarten, but more definite teaching will begin in the primary school as a part of object-teaching, and afterward associated with natural-history studies. It must of course be continued in the grammar school, and only ended with professional studies. The suggestion of the whole subject comes from Dr. Hugo Magnus, docent of ophthal- mology at Breslau, who is unwearied in urging it. He here develops, as in his former writ- ings, a definite plan for teaching colors in the primary scliools, and thus offers the necessary means of instruction. I think that this method of instruction can but commend itself to all. From Dr. S. Kalischer, in the Gegenvoart, Berlin. Of the many methods which have lately been added to school appliances for educating the color-sense, it seems to us that of Dr. Magnus, the so well-known ophthalmic surgeon of Breslau, is by far the best. Not only has Magnus’s method tlie advantage in the variety of the colors and their shades, but also, as it seems to us, in the fact that the children .are less likely to become tired, because the activity of the hands is called into pl.ay and their attention and interest excited by the necessity of se.arching for two special ones among the cards. This metliodical system of education cannot but help, more than anything else, the distinguishing of colors, and assist in remembering them. ’ ’ Dr. Jeffries says, in his Preface to the American edition: A thorough study and trial of it induced me to abandon all other ideas, and endeavor t) introduce it into our schools. After I h,ad made this decision, I was much gratified to find that the plan had met with the especial approval of the highest authority, Dr. Magnus having received the following diploma from the Interu.atlonal Medical Congress at the Amsterdam meeting in 1879 : ,CONGRfcS INTERNATIONAL DES SCIENCES MfeDICALES. 6' Session. Amsterdam, 1879. Dipldme d’admission nvcc mention honorable (distinction unique ddcernde nar le Comit^'i ddlivrd & M. le Docteur Hugo Magnus, a Breslau. ^ ^ ' Le Secrdtaire Gdndral, Dr. GUYE; Dr. W. C. GORI. It is with Dr. Magnus’s especial in America. Le President, DONDERS. La Direction de I’Fxposition, TILANUS, VAN LISSA. t consent and approval that the chart is published here T'rice of Chart, Cards, and Mannal - _ _ _ L. PRANG & COMPANY, - - $13.00. Publishers. ( I 1 I ! \ i'