That conference betwene those which haue interest in children: Certaintie of direction in places where children vse most: and Constancie in well keeping that, which is certainely appointed, be the most profitable circunstances both for vertuous mannering and cunning schooling. (P. [281].)

[Cap. 45.]

The peroration, wherein the summe of the whole booke is recapitulated and proofes vsed, that this enterprise was first to be begon by Positions, and that these be the most proper to this purpose. A request concerning the well taking of that which is so well meant. (P. [292].)

[Chapter 1]——PAGE
Author aims at improving Schools[2]
Why he writes in English[3]
[Chapter 2]——
Settling first Principles[4]
The three Stages of Learning[5]
The first Stage chosen[6]
Matters to be discussed[7]
[Chapter 3]——
Mistake of neglecting Circumstance[8]
Consideration of Circumstance[9]
The Realm of Circumstance[10]
Authority affected by Circumstance[11]
Use of previous writers[12]
Right Reason the best Authority[13]
Truth no Respecter of Persons[14]
[Chapter 4]——
The Ideal and the Possible[15]
What Parents want[16]
At what age should schooling begin?[17]
Circumstances limit choice[18]
Against forcing young wits[19]
Powers of mind and body[20]
Father must decide Care of the body[21]
Parents’ duty in training the body[22]
Meet schoolroom stillness by regulated exercise[23]
Parents must consult with Schoolmaster[24]
[Chapter 5]——
Discerning of ingenerate abilities[25]
Measure of ripeness in soul or body[26]
Three Powers: Perception, Memory, Judgment[27]
Morals the care of Parents and Teachers[28]
Instruction before Grammar Age. Reading[29]
Reading English before Latin[30]
Rote for Youth: Reason for Years. English[31]
Writing invented before Reading[32]
Skill in Writing: its value for the child[33]
Write English hand first. Drawing[34]
Value of Drawing. Painting?[35]
Music[36]
Music good for mind and body[37]
Objections to Music answered[38]
For child reading, writing, drawing, music39
[Chapter 6]——
Training needed for both body and mind[40]
Bodily exercise needed by student[41]
Exercise and health[42]
What is health and sickness?[43]
Dangers to health of the body[44]
Use of exercise The Student[45]
Parents’ and Masters’ parts[46]
Parts of the body and their train[47]
Heart, liver, brain, &c.[48]
Exercises for the various parts[49]
[Chapter 7]——
Four Points to be treated of[50]
[Chapter 8]——
Exercise athletical[51]
Exercise martial[52]
Exercise for health[53]
[Chapter 9]——
The particular exercises chosen[54]
Defence of the choice[55]
[Chapter 10]——
Loud speaking[55]
Good effects of loud speaking[56]
Cautions in loud speaking[57]
Recitations[58]
[Chapter 11]——
Music and health[59]
Music and health[60]
[Chapter 12]——
Reading aloud[60]
Reading aloud approved by Ancients[61]
Soft Reading[62]
[Chapter 13]——
Talking[62]
[Chapter 14]——
Laughing. Weeping[63]
Laughing and weeping as exercises[64]
Weeping no Exercise[66]
Keep the Young in awe[67]
[Chapter 15]——
Soundness of Wind[68]
Use of holding the Breath[69]
Effects of holding the Breath[70]
Cautions[71]
[Chapter 16]——
Defence of Dancing[72]
Dancing: its use and misuse[73]
Kinds and causes of Dancing[74]
Ancient and modern Dancing[75]
[Chapter 17]——
Kinds of Wrestling[76]
Cautions to Wrestlers77
[Chapter 18]——
Kinds of Fencing. The Ancients[78]
Counsels for Fencing[79]
[Chapter 19]——
Tops ancient and modern[80]
Use both Hands alike. Plato quoted[81]
[Chapter 20]——
Walking commonest and best for health[82]
Kinds of Walking[83]
Kinds of Walking and their effects[84]
Walking up and down hill, &c.[86]
Choice of place: by the sea, &c.[87]
Times of Walking[88]
[Chapter 21]——
Running, its importance[89]
Vehement Running unhealthy[90]
Moderate Running. Running backwards, &c.[91]
[Chapter 22]——
Of Leaping[92]
Kinds of Leaping. Spartan women[93]
Leaping. Skipping[94]
[Chapter 23]——
Of Swimming[94]
Swimming: where best[95]
Swimming in salt water[96]
[Chapter 24]——
Riding, ancient and modern[97]
Trotting: Ambling: Posting[98]
[Chapter 25]——
Hunting combines all exercises[99]
Hunting on horseback and on foot[100]
[Chapter 26]——
Shooting practised in Islands[101]
Archery v. Hunting. Ascham[102]
Prince Arthur’s Knights[103]
[Chapter 27]——
Ball games ancient and modern. Handball[104]
Handball and Football[105]
Football and Armball[106]
Why some classic games are left out[107]
[Chapter 28]——
Rules must vary in practice[108]
[Chapter 29]——
Galen’s triple division[109]
[Chapter 30]——
Diseases are of three kinds[110]
When exercise helps in disease[111]
Exercises for the weak and old[112]
Exercise according to state of the body[113]
[Chapter 31]——
Place for exercise[114]
Pure air115
[Chapter 32]——
Time of exercise[115]
Times according to Hippocrates, &c.[116]
Time for exercise and meals[117]
Morning best[118]
[Chapter 33]——
Limits in exercise[118]
Limits. Strong and weak. Old and young[119]
Time of year. Condition of the body[120]
Kind of life[121]
[Chapter 34]——
Rubbing the body[122]
Practice of the Ancients[123]
[Chapter 35]——
Same trainer for body and mind[124]
The Divine and the Physician[125]
Against specialising[126]
Trainer to magnify his office[127]
Praise of health. Trainer’s knowledge[128]
Physician the Trainer’s Friend[129]
Importance of Groundwork[130]
Discretion in applying Knowledge[131]
Art general; Discretion particular[132]
[Chapter 36]——
Boys and girls. Boys first[133]
Train tests wit. Is school for all?[134]
Danger from too many learned[135]
This danger universally admitted[136]
Evils from too few learned. Choice[137]
Sorting of wits. Dangers from misplacement[138]
Reading and writing for all. Rich and poor scholars[139]
Middle sort best for learning[140]
School not for all. Choosing[141]
[Chapter 37]——
All parents would have children learned[142]
The Country must decide[143]
Necessity a good restraint[144]
Number of scholars kept down by law[145]
Private opinion must yield to public[146]
The poor and the rich[147]
Fewer bookmen needed since Reformation[148]
A learned paucity. Choice[149]
Right choice in a monarchy[150]
Ideal monarchy scholar[151]
His patience with masters and comrades[152]
Less clear cases. Master first chooser[153]
Against early choice. Some dullards kept[154]
Schoolmaster and parent[155]
The same. Colleges not almshouses[156]
Evils from bad elections[157]
Catchers in Colleges[158]
College factions warned[159]
Influence of the great misused by the little[160]
Abuse of patronage161
Bursuries. Degrees gained by favour[162]
Daws as peacocks[163]
Evils ensuing. Livings[164]
Preferment to livings[165]
Professions overcrowded[166]
[Chapter 38]——
Teaching of girls[166]
Four reasons. First, English custom[167]
Second, Our duty[168]
Physical education of girls[169]
Third, Girls’ natural towardness[170]
Fourth, Good results accruing[171]
Plutarch, &c., about women[172]
Panegyric of Queen Elizabeth[173]
Limits. Learning allowed[174]
Choice, as with boys[175]
Studies for girls. Reading[176]
Writing. Music. Housewifery[177]
Learning suited to station[178]
How much?[179]
Professions denied. Drawing allowed[180]
Languages, &c. To what age?[181]
Where? and by whom?[182]
[Chapter 39]——
Need of train in women and in gentlemen[183]
Public training best for gentlemen. Private[184]
Private education and public[185]
Disadvantages of private training[186]
The same[187]
The same[188]
Why prefer private to public?[189]
Public school with a private tutor[190]
Public schools and private[191]
Studies of a gentleman[192]
Gentlemen. The new rich[193]
The new rich[194]
Noblesse oblige[195]
What makes the gentleman[196]
Nobility and gentry[197]
“As they be true gentlemen”[198]
Virtues not tied to the person[199]
Noble and gentle[200]
Learning useful to noblemen[201]
A wise counsellor[202]
The Divine[203]
The lawyer and the physician[204]
Apes[205]
What is needed for the gentleman[206]
The same[207]
Travelling beyond sea[208]
Travel not necessary[209]
Against foreign travel[210]
The same[211]
Women do not travel. Queen Elizabeth[212]
Socrates. Plato on travel213
Plato’s traveller[214]
His treatment on return[215]
Plato’s reception of foreigners[216]
Doubts about travel[217]
Gentlemen and the professions[218]
Gentlemen’s advantages[219]
Must not be smatterers. Princes[220]
Training of a Prince. Elizabeth[221]
[Chapter 40]——
Three stages of school education[222]
School building: 1, superior; 2, primary[223]
3, Secondary. Buildings and hours[224]
Boarding schools, pro and con[225]
Grammar schools in suburbs[226]
Master’s pay dependent on diligence[227]
Changing schools. Master’s pay[228]
Moving schools out of towns[229]
School buildings. Times[230]
Hours best for study and play[231]
[Chapter 41]——
Same trainer for mind and body[232]
Elementary master most important[233]
Pay elementary master highest[234]
Grammar master and his pay[235]
Good masters stopt by bad pay[236]
Teacher’s training. University reform[237]
A college for tongues[238]
A college for mathematics?[239]
Tongues too much thought of. Ascham[240]
Sir J. Cheeke on Cambridge mathematics[241]
Talking Latin. Mathematics[242]
College for Philosophy[243]
Study of words. Necessity of mathematics[244]
Philo and Aristotle[245]
Mathematics studied by Ancients[246]
Mathematics and Philosophy[247]
Law Reform. Training College[248]
Use of the seven colleges[249]
Sorting by age. Uniting of colleges[250]
University Readers[251]
University Reform. Readerships[252]
The same[253]
Learned Professors needed[254]
Admission of teachers[255]
[Chapter 42]——
Against forcing[256]
Ills from haste[257]
Degrees taken too young[258]
Over-hasting. Vives[259]
Value of time[260]
Limit of elementary course[261]
[Chapter 43]——
Schoolmasters’ troubles. Melanchthon[262]
Want of uniformity[263]
Proposal of common scheme264
Able and ordinary teachers[265]
Gains from uniformity[266]
Changing schools. The common Grammar[267]
Too many school books[268]
Choice of books. Chrestomathies[269]
The same. No poetic fury[270]
Profit from uniformity[271]
Mulcaster will write himself[272]
Printed rules of hours, punishments, &c.[273]
Parents and punishments[274]
Monitors. The rod needed[275]
The rod[276]
Socrates. Plato. Xenophon[277]
Coat story in Cyropædeia[278]
Tarif of stripes[279]
Great offences. Master’s age[280]
Master’s calling[281]
[Chapter 44]——
Confer with parents[281]
Conference with neighbours[282]
Teachers and neighbours[283]
Teachers and parents. Xenophon[284]
Conference of teachers[285]
The same. Certainty in direction[286]
Certainty at school and at home[287]
Certainty at home and at Church[288]
Advantage from certainty. Constancy[289]
Discretion in change[290]
Summing up[291]
[Chapter 45]——
Plan of this book[292]
Author’s intention[293]
Reason of his prolixity[294]
His choice of subject[295]
Advantage of ideal[296]
Why girls’ training is treated of[297]
Wishes[298]

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