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Show Common School Km 'cation. Ex-I'rertidonl Ex-I'rertidonl Hill, of Hurvard collide, uiveH theso art the three essentials of tho puhlic hchouia: l-'irot, Bound morals; secondly, good English; thirdly, elumcntary inathemalie:. Tlie Hchool which tenches these well , and thoroughly givert a good common j jm'hool educ.ttion; tiie achool which j , fails in either of the throe makes a vital failure, 'Ihe child who han, j crude tiahiu ol industry, acquire of its ;oivii accord all the further education w:iich its ahihlica and itsooportunitica allow. To ' hrin into a primary school tlie 'abstraction:! of riiiimiar, the dry honed ol luaturicul tl.tles and names, the niyaterici of physiology, and other ; hih school or collehite branches, is abjured; hut role-tfininc and read-in read-in nimple mtibic, de?crijilive natural hintory and i;eoyr.iiliy, the facia of tiooineiry, and B!ui)o geometrical , ilrawing, lire tt) the child's taite; and-to and-to allow a purl of Iih lime t he iveii to such studies will muke him hriht j and interested, and more e.icer to hum hia reading and wriliiiL" and ciphering; precisely aj the belcction id' really instructive and intcrcsting readini: hooks in place of wealt and mawkish wnti:i will hive the game etlcct. Tlie schools which are the most interested in geometry, drawing, singing, and natural history, are found lo be the bct readers and wriUrt and tho quickest at figurea. |