WE have no beginners. The children of the youngest class read, write, and solve problems in the first three rules of arithmetic, and repeat sacred history, so that our order of exercises is arranged according to the following roster:—
- Mechanical and Graded Reading.
- Compositions.
- Penmanship.
- Grammar.
- Sacred History.
- Russian History.
- Drawing.
- Sketching.
- Singing.
- Mathematics.
- Conversations about the Natural Sciences.
- Religious Instruction.
Before I speak of the methods of instruction, I must give a short description of the Yasnaya Polyana school and its present condition.
- ↑ Yasnaya Polyana, or Fairfield, is the name of the count's estate a few miles out from the city of Tula. It is also the name of a journal of education published at his own expense. A complete file of this journal is in the library of Cornell University, the gift of the late Mr. Eugene Schuyler, to whom Count Tolstoï presented it.
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