UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE

DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

THE

SCHOOL MASTER:

ESSAYS ON PRACTICAL EDUCATION,

SELECTED FROM THE

WORKS OF ASCHAM, MILTON, LOCKE,

AND BUTLER;

FROM

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION ;

AND FROM

LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. I.

LONDON:

CHARLES KNIGHT, 22, LUDGATE STREET.

MDCCCXXXVI.

SSD

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

Page

Analytical Account of Ascham's “Schoolmaster,"

with a Biographical Notice of Roger Ascham,

and Wolsey's Letter to the Master of Ipswich

School

Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib. By

John Milton

106

Analysis of Some Thoughts concerning Education.

By John Locke

122

Bishop Butler's Sermon on Charity Schools 159

Introductory Discourse, delivered before the Ame-

rican Institute of Instruction. By Francis Way-

land, jun., President of Brown University . 179

Of Moral Education. By J. de Sainteville 206

Early Education. By Mrs. Barwell *

233

On the Importance of Physical Education. By

J. C. Warren, M.D. .

257

On the Discipline of Large Boarding Schools. By

287

.

*

G. Long

Page

On the Means which may be employed to stimu-

late the Student without the Aid of Emula-

tion. By John L. Parkhurst

348

On the Advantages and Defects of the Moni-

torial System, with some Suggestions, show-

ing in what particulars it may be safely adopted

in our Schools. By Henry K. Oliver • 362

Account of the Seminary for Schoolmasters at

Königsberg in Prussia. By W. Wittich . 391

.

[Roger Ascham was born at Kirby-Wiske, or Kirbyupon-Wiske, near Northallerton, in Yorkshire, about the year 1515. His father, whose name was John, was steward to Lord Scroop, and is said to have been a man of very superior understanding, as well as of eminent integrity: his mother was of a good family. They had two other sons, Thomas and Anthony, both born before Roger, as well as several daughters. John Ascham and his wife are stated to have died on the same day, and almost in the same hour, after a union of forty-seven years.

Roger, who appears to have been born in his father's old age, was in his boyhood taken into the house of Sir Anthony Wingfield, to be educated, at the expense of that gentleman, along with his two sons. Their tutor was a Mr. Bond. Here he so greatly took Sir Anthony, by the love he showed for reading, and the rapid progress he made in his studies, that this generous patron resolved to complete his kindness by sending him to the University. He was accordingly entered of St. John's College, Cambridge, about the year 1530. He soon greatly distinguished himself in this new sphere, especially by his progress in the knowledge of the Greek language,