Hints on an improved and self-paying system of national education; suggested from the working of a village school in Hampshire with observations, ... inspection, on the Irish national schools - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... 20 of conversation and of interest among themselves, in their cottages, instruction of this kind gives rise to. I may mention such questions as the following, which they do in writing as well as they can: Point out the various uses of soap, how it adds to our comforts and cleanliness; and the different purposes for which iron is used; the advantages of being able to convert it into steel; how many kinds of tools they can enumerate which are made of it. Write down what they know of sugar, tea, coffee, and where we get them from: trace a little sketch, and put down the names of all the counties which a ship will coast along in bringing coals from Newcastle to Southampton; and, in fact, an infinity of little questions of this kind. Then again, in arithmetic, they are occasionally set questions to take home, such as the following: If each person consume lbs of sugar in a year, how much will the whole family consume, and what will it cost at per lb.? Give the number of acres of the parish, and population; how many to an acre; number of houses, how many in a house? The population of the parish in 1831, was 1040, at the census of 1841 it had increased 7 per cent., what is it at present? Twenty per cent, of the population ought to be at school, but there are only 15 per cent., how many are there, and how many absent who ought to be there? It would be useless to multiply these questions here, but I have known some of them to afford amusement to a whole family for an evening; and they lead to considerable discussion among themselves, as to whether they do use more or less of such and such articles. Hitherto they have thought little in this way, and these suggestions are of great use to them. The more advanced boys have also a very competent knowledge of...