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with equal ability, some beginning to speak in the first year, some in the second, and some in the third.^[1]

13. I will therefore show, in a general way, how children should be instructed during the first six years: (1) in a knowledge of things; (2) in labors with activity; (3) in speech; (4) in morals and virtues; (5) in piety; (6) inasmuch as life and sound health constitute the basis of all things in relation to men, it will be shown how, by diligence and care of parents, children may be preserved sound and healthy.^[2]

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COLLATERAL READING.

 

Edgeworth’s Practical Education, Chap. XX.; Laurie’s Primary Instruction in Relation to Education, Chap. I.; Preyer’s Mental Development in the Child, Chap. I.; Richter’s Levana, Second Fragment, Chaps. I., II., and III.

 

1. The student of education, familiar with the writings of Comenius, is constantly surprised at his familiarity with child-mind,—a familiarity not common among educational philosophers in our own day. How much more remarkable it must have been two and a half centuries ago!
2. [[Author:Aristotle}} had previously declared: “The first care should be given to the body rather than to the mind.”