Lanterna Rally

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9781331136224

Excerpt from Report on the Organization of a High School for Girls, and Seminary for Female Teachers, 1840 One examination should be held each half year at the close of the term. Half yearly examinations have several advantages; - they tend to diminish the disposition on the part of pupils in the public schools, to apply for admission into the High School before they are duly prepared; to diminish the bad effects of erroneous decisions in regard to the claims of candidates for admission; and to make the exchange of pupils from class to class, in the school, more easy. With a further view to correct errors in admitting pupils not properly qualified, I would propose that for the first six months, those admitted, should be on probation; the parents to withdraw them, if found deficient in preparation or in maturity of mind, and their places to be returned to them, if desired, in the public school from which they came. The details of the manner and time of conducting these examinations, and the notices of their occurrence, might be left with the Principal of the school. Course Of Study. The course of study might very properly be completed in four years, so that a pupil who entered at twelve, the lowest possible age for admission, and passed through the classes, regularly, would leave the school, or enter the seminary for teachers, at sixteen. Corresponding to these four years, should be four classes, or divisions, and a pupil, who from negligence was found, for three consecutive examinations in the lowest division, should be withdrawn by her parents, as this would prove that she did not appreciate the advantages of the school, or was too indolent to profit by them. The places in this school should be held up as rewards for exertion, and thus would serve as powerful incentives to study, in the public schools. The following list comprises the studies proposed. I do not, at present, recommend the introduction of any foreign language into the school. 1. English Grammar, Reading, Composition, Etymological Exercises, Course of Reading. 2. Geography, to be taught chiefly from maps and globes, and by oral lessons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.