E Education, Hon. John Young Evansville High School Building Experimental Science in the School Room, Prof. Joseph Ting- ley Errors of the Case, John H. Hart, LL. D..... Education of American Girls, Robert McNiece.. Encouraging Words.... Examination for Promotion.. 1 ..193, 276 195 .232, 403, 442 239 258 324 God's Truths... Graduation in the Indianapolis Training Schools. Graduation in Terre Haute Schools... Grammatical value of the Instruction between Thought and the 24 335 336 363 456 H Hendricks County Rules.. 29 House of Refuge, Editorial.. 128 Hygiene in the School Room, Prof. R. T. Brown . 219 How should Examination of Teachers be conducted? S. N. Indianapolis Schools-Questions in Examination.. L Laws of Health, Hon. John Young 300 309 Leaving Indiana.... 147 302 Necessity of Teachers Knowing more than they are required to Objects to be Aimed at by the Professional Teacher in the Public Powers and Duties of Superintendents of Public Schools in 477 Remarks on Words regarded as Prepositions, Prof. Noble 272 S School Examination, President A. R. Benton.... 27 Small Things in and about the School Room, Editorial.. 31 35 Study of the English Language, Prof. M. S. Newell 51 State Institute Agent 73 Statistics from Department of Public Instruction. 74 State Collegiate Association, Editorial Spelling-How to Teach it, A. W. Watkins.. 76 81 289 291 292 Suggestions Concerning the Building of School Houses State Convention of Examiners.... State Convention of School Superintendents INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL. January, 1868. Vol. XIII. GEORGE W. HOSS, Editor. No. 1. EDUCATION. BY HON. JOHN YOUNG, RECENT CONSUL TO BELFAST, IRELAND. Education, in its most general sense, denotes the process by which we bring into full exercise the latent powers of all living beings. The florist, who by rich soil and favorable circumstances, changes a wild single flower into a double head, full with petals, is an educator. The gardener who greatly enlarges the size and lusciousness of a fruit, by his plan of cultivation, is an educator. He simply educes the powers that were latent in the plant. These improved plants, by neglect for a few generations, will return to their former state. The education of animals is also very common. The sentences uttered by the parrot are indeed few, and the meaning vague, because its mental powers are not suf ficient to secure much further advancement. It is very beautiful to see a well trained horse sweep round the ring of a circus, and the horse usually performs its movements with as much regularity as the rider. The different families of dogs have been trained and fitted for the uses to which they are applied. The Scotch Collie is a most faithful and clever guardian of the sheep. The New Foundland dogs, of St. Bernard know well that it is their duty to conduct home weak persons fallen in the snow. The Pointer and Setter show a peculiar tact, which is the product of training, now become hereditary. The educational training of man divides itself into two ranches. 1st. The production of proper habits, and the increase of powers by repetition and imitation. 2d. The impartation of systematized knowledge to the pupil, to save the time of self search. Our success in the second department is mainly dependent upon the habits and powers acquired by the previous training. The individual seems at death to carry away with him the acquired knowledge; but he has imparted to his offspring, much of the habits and powers of mind and body which were educed by training. This fact opens a glorious prospect to the educator who spends much time in training and strengthening mental powers. His work will live even in the next generation, and by still receiving accessions of force in each age, the race may yet rise much higher than we expect. These two kinds of education, no doubt, blend together in practice, but if either may be neglected, certainly a failure to impart information will be less hurtful if we have disciplined the mind, increased the powers by use, so that they can afterward successfully study any subject for themselves. For this purpose, one subject well mastered, will avail more than half a dozen tried and trifled with. The preparation of men for all the arts of life are processes of education. The seaman has to learn the names of a great variety of ropes and pins before he can be of any use on board. Then his speed in ascending the ropes, and his tenacity and steadiness in standing in the rigging, are powers acquired by long habit. The workshop of the artisan is a school. Young men enter there with clumsy motions, and their first attempts are awkward failures. By degrees their muscles begin to act with ease and put forth only the power required without waste. The eye learns to decide upon correctness, |