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 Mansfield on American E du c a Hon. 



AMERICAN EDUCATION*. 



ITS PRINCIPLES AND ELEMENTS. 



DEDICATED TO THE TEACHERS OF THE TTNITED ST/TI.t 



BY EDWARD D. MANSFIELD, 



Autlior of '•-Political G-rammar" etc. 



This work is suggestive of principles, and not intended to point ol'\ t 

 course of studies. Its aim is to excite attention to what should he the 

 elements of an American education ; or, in other words, what are the 

 ideas connected with a republican and Christian education in this period 

 of rapid development. 



•'The author could not have applied his pen to the production of a book upon a 

 Bubject of more importance than the one he has chosen. We have had occasion to 

 notice one or two new works on education recently, which indicate that the attention 

 of authors in bein'^ directed toward that subject. We trust that those who occupy the 

 proud position of teachers of American youth will find much in these works, which are 

 a sort of interchange of opinion, to assist them in the discharge of their responsible duties. 



"The author of the work before us does not point out any particular course of studies 

 to be pursued, bat confines himselfto the consideration of the principles which should 

 govern teachers. His views upon the elements of an American education, and its 

 bearings upon our institutions, are sound, and worthy the attention of those to whom 

 they are particularly addressed. We commend the work to teachers." — Rochester 

 Daily Advertiser. 



"We have examined it with some care, and are delighted with it. It discusses the 

 whole subject of American education, and presents views at opce enlarged and compre- 

 hensive; it, in fact, covers the whole ground. It is high-toned in its moral ana 

 religious bearing, and points out to the student the way in which to be a. man. h 

 should be in every public and private library in the country."— Jackson Patriot. 



u It is an elevated, dignified work of a philosopher, who has written a book on tho 

 ■object of education, which is an acquisition of great value to all classes of our 

 countrymen. It can be read with interest and profit, by the old and young, the 

 educated and unlearned. We bail it in this era of superficial and ephemeral litera- 

 ture, as the precursor of a better future. It discusses a momentous subject; bringing 

 to bear, in its examination, the deep and labored thought of a comprehensive mind. 

 We hope its sentiments may be diffused as freely and as widely throughout our land 

 ha the air we breathe." — Kalamazoo Gazette. 



"Important and comprehensive as is the title of this work, we assure our readers il 

 ic no misnomer. A wide gap in the bulwark of this age and this country is greatly 

 .eeeened by this excellent book. In the first place, the views of the author on educa- 

 tion, irrespective of time and place, are of the highest order, contrasting Btrongly with 

 the groveling, time-seeking views so plausible and so popular at the present day. 

 A leading purpose of the author is, as he says in the preface, ' to turn the thoughts of 

 d in the direction of youth to "the fact, that it is the entire soul, in all iU 

 faculties, which needs education.' 



"The view* of the author are eminently philosophical, and he does not pretend to 

 enter into the details of teaching: but his is a practical philosophy, having to do with 

 living abiding truths, and does not sneer at utility, though it demands a utility thai 

 take* hold of the spiritual part of man, and reaches into bis immortality."— HoldtiCt 

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