Let Him First Be a Man and Other Essays

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Excerpt from Let Him First Be a Man and Other Essays: Chiefly Relating to Education and CultureTalks, rather than essays. Some of the pieces have appeared in Education the Ohio Educa tional Monthly, Intelligence, and other journals. The dominant purpose of the several essays and of the collection is to Oppose the deadening in¿uence of mere mechanical routine in the training of children, whether in school or at home. The Procrustean bedstead, the cramming-machine, the conser vative groove, still find a place in the generality of schoolhouses, and there is still need of abolitionists to urge their removal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.