[2] This will again remind the student of the theories of treatment in medicine in diseases which, in the seventeenth century, were treated only by bleeding and emetics, are now treated by nourishing food, and no medicines, etc.
[3] The teacher will do well to consider the probable result of the constant association with mental inferiors entailed by his work, and also to consider what counter-irritant is to be applied to balance, in his character, this unavoidable tendency.
[4] The age at which the child should be subject to the training of school life, or Education, properly so-called, must vary with different races, nations, and different children.
[5] The best educator is he who makes his pupils independent of himself. This implies on the teacher's part an ability to lose himself in his work, and a desire for the real growth of the pupil, independent of any personal fame of his own—a disinterestedness which places education on a level with the noblest occupations of man.
[6] See analysis.
[7] Asiatic systems of Education have this basis (see § [178] of the original).
[8] The definition of freedom here implied is this: Mind is free when it knows itself and wills its own laws.
[9] Perhaps, however slow the growth, there is real progress in liberating the imprisoned soul (?)
[10] "When me they fly, I am the wings."—Emerson.
[11] The story of Peter Schlemihl, by Chamisso, may be read in the English translation published in "Hedge's German Prose Writers."