J^otice of "Plans for the Instruction «^c. 161 



Note. In concluding this essay, I wish to express my 

 obligatios to the members of the New-York Historical So- 

 ciety, for the very liberal manner in which they have allow- 

 ed me access to the valuable library, collected under their 

 auspices, which is extremely rich in all works connected 

 with American Antiquities. 



New-York, No. 126, Broadway. 



EDUCATION. 



Art. XXI Kotiee of a new zvork on Public Education, enti- 

 tled "" Plans for the government and instruction of boys in 

 large numbers : drawn from experience.'''' London 8vo. 

 1822. 



(Communicated for this Journal.) 



Of the two great divisions of Education, namely, gov- 

 ernment and instruction, the former has had, at least in 

 schools, far less than its due share of attention. 



It has indeed been considered at all only because a cer- 

 tain degree of order is necessary in the little community 

 before the teacher can insure the attention of the scholar 

 to his proffered lessons. More than this, however, few 

 masters have attempted. Docility and submission, with a 

 certain degree of ardour to acquire information and deserve 

 their praise, form in the minds of instructors in general, 

 the beau ideal of a pupil, and many of our readers will per- 

 haps feel astonished that wo should require any thing more. 

 But we cannot forget that we are members of a free coun- 

 try, and we examine with great and solemn interest, the 

 habits and influences under which they are educated to 

 whom we must eventually resign the guardianship of the 

 free constitution, which it hath pleased Almighty God to 

 bestow upon us as his choicest blessing. 



It may perhaps to many minds, be a new mode of con- 

 sidering the subject, but the fact undoubtedly is that our 

 method of teaching our children to sustain their parts in a 

 country of liberty is by placing them during some of th«- 

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