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. 1888 Excerpt: ... to infuse life into the entire body. It is estimated that 95 per cent of all the children attending school can learn music. Must we, then, afford to do without its practical benefits in the school-room, at the home, and all through life, substituting in its stead the branches now belonging to our customary courses of ...
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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. 1888 Excerpt: ... to infuse life into the entire body. It is estimated that 95 per cent of all the children attending school can learn music. Must we, then, afford to do without its practical benefits in the school-room, at the home, and all through life, substituting in its stead the branches now belonging to our customary courses of study? A few years ago a musical instrument was too costly to be thought of in the homes of the poor, but to-day the small sum needed to purchase a really excellent one can be saved from a moderate income; the happiness the family will realize from its use will repay a hundred times the economy needed for its purchase. It is found that children in the first primary grade can learn to read music and enjoy the lessons. If I were called upon to decide what my daughter must have in her course of study, I would say at once, give her less, if necessary, of arithmetic, geography, technical grammar, etc., and teach her, from her first entrance into the school-room, music. She should be taught, also, observation of the world around her, politeness, kindness, self-control, truth, purity, and temperance. She can gain much additional knowledge in after-life, but she can not develop into a true, lovely woman unless her education in these most essential matters is first in time and first in importance all the way. And here I wish I might preach a long sermon on the exact teaching theue should be in all our primary schools; on the habits of order, neatness, accuracy, and obedience learned from the ever-present examples at home and in school; on the absolute necessity of the little girl beginning in the infant classes what will enter into her success when she grows to woman's estate. It matters very little to her or to those about her whether she can ever giv...
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