[229] I am aware that this term is not found in the latest Webster, but I see no other way of expressing the force of the word éducatif, which seems to signify the disciplinary, or rather the culture, value of a study. (P.)
[230] See Chap. III. of Book III. paragraph 1st. Just medium between two extremes.
[231] Here is an example from Père Girard’s arithmetic:—
“A father had the habit of going every evening to the dram-shop, and often left his family at home without bread. During the five years that he led this life, he spent, the first year, 197 francs, the second, 204 francs, the third, 212 francs, and the fourth, 129 francs. How many francs would this unfortunate father have saved if he had not had a taste for drink?” (P.)
[232] Naville, De l’Éducation publique, p. 411.
[233] Explication du plan de Fribourg en Suisse, 1817.
[234] See the interesting articles of Lafargue in the Bulletin pédagogique de l’enseignement secondaire, 1882.
[235] Messieurs Rapet and Michel were associated in the publication of the Cours éducatif de la langue maternelle.
[236] “Man owes his growth, his energy, chiefly to that striving of the will, that conflict with difficulty, which we call effort. Easy, pleasant work does not make robust minds, does not give men a consciousness of their powers, does not train them to endurance, to perseverance, to steady force of will, that force without which all other acquisitions avail nothing.” Dr. Channing.