[11] L’éducation et l’instruction chez les anciens Juifs, by J. Simon, Paris, 1879, p. 16.
[12] Levit. xix. 2.
[13] Prov. xiii. 24.
[14] Prov. xxiii. 13, 14.
[15] Prov. xix. 18.
[16] On similar grounds, Alexander declared that he owed more to Aristotle his teacher, than to Philip his father. (P.)
[17] What were the methods followed in teaching reading and writing? We are told by Renan in his Vie de Jésus that “Jesus doubtless learned to read and write according to the method of the East, which consists in putting into the hands of the child a book which he repeats in concert with his comrades till he knows it by heart.”
[18] This statement needs qualifying. “In nearly all the families of high rank,” says the Dictionnaire de Pédagogie (1ere Partie, Article Juifs), “the daughters spoke Greek. The Rabbins did not look with any favor upon the study of profane philosophy; but notwithstanding their protests, there were many devoted readers of Plato and Aristotle. It is said that among the pupils of the celebrated Gamaliel there were five hundred who studied the philosophy and the literature of Greece.” (P.)
[19] For a series of interesting documents on the actual state of education in China, consult the article Chine, in Buisson’s Dictionnaire de Pédagogie.
[20] Dittes, op. cit., p. 32.