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COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS. EVENING MEETING, 45 45 Dr. WHITE having been voted into the chair, the Rev. W. Chantler Izard, M.A., Head Master of the Stepney Grammar School, proceeded to read his paper on are. By physical education I understand the employment of those means by which the body is brought to the utmost degree of perfection in all its functions, by which growth, health, and strength may be promoted. Habits of cleanliness, temperance, and exercise are the means to be employed. Walking, running, leaping, riding, skating, swimming, cricket, foot-ball, gymnastics, are conducive to this end. The perfect form of the Greeks and Persians resulted from the amount of attention which this school of education received from them. Pure air, wholesome food, the due regu. lation of the appetites, are also necessary. Not only do we perceive, remember and reproduce, but we compare also the impressions made by objects whether present or absent, distinguishing them one from another, by their dimension, form, colour, or other qualities; hence we are said to possess the faculty of comparison. Another intellectual faculty is that of language-that gift of God which, with others, distinguishes us from the lower animalsthe faculty of expressing thought by sound, as when we hold communion one with another; or by means of symbols, when we commit our ideas to writing. Thus it is that our ideas, or the results of our experience, are not confined within ourselves, but are communicated to others; and the life of man, in a certain sense, is bounded, not by his own individual existence, but embraces the whole of the future period of the existence of his species. Then there is imitation: we imitate the sounds we hear, we copy the forms we see. Thus follow the faculties of observation, association, abstraction, classification, generalization, and lastly that of reason, or judgmentby this last we distinguish truth from falsehood; compare facts with facts, events with events, and from their relations and bearings deduce conclusions. Reason, in a well regulated mind, holds the mastery over all the other faculties; it gives strength and precision to them all, harmonizes their operation, and checks the unhealthy action of any one of them. This faculty is in the highest degree susceptible of cultivation; and a proportional amount of attention will be bestowed upon it by the careful instructor. It lies beyond the scope of the present paper to show by what means, or to what degree, each of these faculties may be cultivated. I have entered upon this analysis of the intellectual powers only as introductory to that of the moral affections, to which I now ask attention. MORAL TRAINING IN SCHOOLS. THE importance of the subject which has Let me now ask your attention for a few been selected for consideration this evening, is moments to the intellectual faculties, and to so great that it is impossible to overrate it. It the laws of their operation; it is of extreme is no ordinary occupation in which, as educa- importance we should know something of the tors, we are engaged. The raw material out philosophy of the subject. The human mind of which the fabric of future society is to be is entrusted to us for education; we ought to constructed is entrusted to us. The character have some philosophical perception of what of the generation which succeeds us will take mind really is. A man entrusted with the its impression from us. The seeds we now direction of a machine should know something Sow in the soil of the minds and hearts of of the principles of its construction and its children will spring up and bear fruit long mode of action. after we have passed away. As it is in the Without going far into any analysis, the physical world, so also is it in the moral; no chief intellectual faculties may be ranged under motion or dynamical action is lost in the one, perception, memory, comparison, conception, no moral movement or moral dynamical action imagination, and reason or judgment. is lost in the other. The results of our actions The first of these faculties is perception, by and teaching will be felt through future which the mind becomes conscious of the ex-ments have been made; but the most philoages; nor is it possible to integrate that istence of external objects. These produce formula which shall express the remote bear- upon us impressions, which we call sensations; ings of any error or neglect in the duties and they affect us, through one or other of our entrusted to us. The importance of the sub-six senses (for though the received number has ject is measured only by the responsibilities been but five, yet the resistance we experience under which we lie, not to parents alone, but to to muscular action is now generally recognized children, to society at large, to future genera- as a sixth.) Those sensations may be either tions, and to God. Man is a physical being, inasmuch as he possesses a body in which he dwells, and by which he maintains contact with the outer world; but he is also a spiritual being, endowed with high intellectual gifts and moral faculties. Education, therefore, in its most comprehensive sense, must have reference to each and all of these endowments. Nor can that be considered as education, which would train any one or more of these without including the third. This evening I propose only to consider the last of the three departments of education, and, as the result of our discussion, to deter mine the best methods by which the moral education of boys can be effected. First, let us define what we understand by moral training. Training, I take it, is the art of drawing out, successively or collectively, of fashioning, developing, strengthening the various gifts or endowments-whether physical, intellectual, or moral-which God has be stowed; and moral training is that series of acts, or modes of acting, which shall develope of pleasure or of pain; but by their means we Perception is the first of our intellectual faculties which becomes developed; the first by which knowledge is attained; and the first, therefore, to which, in elementary education, attention should be directed. We remember past impressions and perceptions; hence we are said to possess the faculty of memory, without which we should be wholly ignorant of the past, and equally unconscious of much that is passing around us. Memory is to all of us a kind of humble confidential servant; a sort of keeper of the stores, who is expected to keep whatever is committed to his charge, and to bring forward at a moment whatever is required. Then comes conception, which is that faculty by which, at the exercise of our will, we recall past impressions and scenes; by which we place them, in all their detail, as it were, actually before the mind, and make them the objects of contemplation. Coexistent with the earliest stage of intellectual development in children, certain appetites, passions, and motives to action present themselves. Different analyses of these endow sophical seems to be that which would divide them into the passive and the active-those through which we are affected by pleasure or pain, and those which supply motives to conduct. Among the former are pride, vanity, fear, hate, falsehood. By each of these in turn, or by all of them simultaneously, we may be affected. They produce pain, misery, disquietude; by these we are placed in a condition of suffering, not of action, as Dean Trench has so well remarked in his study of words. We sometimes think of a passionate man as a man of energy and exercising a strong will. The word "passion," he says, declares to us plainly the contrary; it means, properly, suffering; and a passionate man is not doing something, but suffering something to be done to him. The man who gives way to anger, or to any other evil temper, suffers from the effect of that temper. Other affections again are productive of pleasure only; as veneration, wonder, a sense of the beautiful and the sublime, love, joy, peace, hope, truth, simplicity, purity. The extent to which we are affected by these is matter of experience. The pleasure derived from the contemplation of the sublime and beautiful is often intense. We gaze on and admire objects because they afford us pleasure. The bright sun, lighting up the sky and earth; the green fields and flowers, |