was what the Boylston Professor of English at Harvard LITTLE 

 calls "fadism, or the successful effort at flabbiness." JOURNEYS 

 Our Harvard friend thinks that education should be a 

 discipline that it should be difficult and vexatious, 

 and that happiness, spontaneity and exuberance are 

 the antitheses and the foes of learning. To him grim 

 earnestness, silence, sweat and lamp smoke are pref- 

 erable to sunshine, and joyous, useful work so wisely 

 directed that the pupil thinks it play. He believes that 

 to be sincere we must be serious. 



In these latter-day objections there is nothing new. 

 Socrates met them all ; Rousseau heard the cry of 

 "fad;" Heyne, Pestalozzi, Campe, Knuth and Froe- 

 bel met the carpist and answered him reason for rea- 

 son, just as Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo told why 

 the earth revolved. 



The professional teacher who can do nothing but 

 teach the college professor who is a college professor 

 and nothing else hates the Natural Method man as the 

 person who wears a paste diamond hates a lapidary. 



fEINRICH CAMPE was the tutor of the 

 Humboldts for two years, when he entered 

 the employ of the King as Commissioner 

 of Education ."After this, however, he con- 

 tinued to spend one day a week at Tegel 

 for some} time. He loved the boys as his 

 own and his hope fori their future never relaxed. Pos- 

 sibly his interest was not wholly disinterested with 



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