This course would have the effect of keeping back pupils
from College, a year or two, or, in some cases, of bringing the
parents or guardians of the pupil to reside in Cambridge; but it
would instantly destroy the root of endless grievances between the
student and teacher, put both parties on the best footing, --
indispensable one would say, to good teaching, -- and relieve the
professors of an odious guardianship, always degenerating into
espionage, which must naturally indispose men of genius and honorable
mind from accepting the professor's chair.
_English Reformers_
Whilst Mr. Sparks visits England to explore the manuscripts of
the Colonial Office, and Dr. Waagen on a mission of Art, Mr. Alcott,
whose genius and efforts in the great art of Education have been more
appreciated in England than in America, has now been spending some
months in that country, with the aim to confer with the most eminent
Educators and philanthropists, in the hope to exchange intelligence,
and import into this country whatever hints have been struck out
there, on the subject of literature and the First Philosophy.
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