Show TYNDALL ON TEACHING AND TEACHERS we W have before us a lecture which prof tyndall delivered before tile royal institute of great tony forty till unco years ago many thoughts 0 of mill make good dewling I 1 ili n salt lake city lust just now the lecture was avas upon the study of physics A w holcli lie ins called an ail implement 0 of culture lie he spoke ili lint at of 0 tile cultivation of the voice and explained As what tat meant ills till os as follows there tre arly certain me membranes rn at the top ot of hie t lie windpipe which throw into vibration tile the tile air forced between them from tile lie lungs thui thug producing musical notes these membranes are to some extent under tile the control of 0 the will avill and it lias has been found that they can bo be so no modified by exercise as to produce notes ot of a clearer and on d move moie melo melodious diotis character tills this exercise we me call the eju education ot of the voice we Is may choose for or our one exer exercise Cibe songs new or old festive or solemn the education of the ice being tit lie object aimed ILL at tho the songs nay may be regarded as the means hy by which tills this education Is ig accomplished then with that example as a text the great areat man went on oil to discuss ilir cuss the edu education catlon of the human abd in id as the improvement and development of the mental faculties next he that the subjects ot of physics proper fire are those which lie nearest to human perception ce litton light heat color round bound milien motion molien tho the loadstone electrical ilona and I 1 lepul alons thunder and lightning ing rain snow dew etc I 1 then he explains how we see oce the fact but unsatisfied sat I 1 ailed that must be recounted for taking the facts we transfer them to the domain of 0 thought compare them and bringing them closer and closer in n me mental vital thought finally alight aron the cau cause which unites them then leaving guessed the cause we set out from the th center and travel in the other direction with ith the thought that if cur guess la Is true certain murt follow and nil we appeal to the law und testimony of experiment to test the truth in that way our reasoning powers po aro are called into play next the ix of the ilia mind of a little child Is traced ile he grasps at the moon nna and ills failure to reach it gives elves him respect for or distance ile he hurts burts his gums with a spoon and thereby learns leams the impenetrability tr of matter ho drops the aboon upon the table and thus learns his first lesson upon sound and gravitation he learna the conditions of Ms bin physical well A a 11 being by falling down cutting or burning ills his fingers etc then than the idea of cause anil and effect dan n upon him and then real expansion begins of the progress gress ile he says say ho he learns leans that things which at first sight seem to stand isolated and without apparent brotherhood in nature are organically united and finds the detection of such anal analogies ogles it a source ot of perpetual dought thus the gradual conquest ot of tho the material world and the consciousness of augmented strength which accompanies com it render the study of cs as t a delightful f in I 1 as it Is important then s a triumph triin m ph Is given in these words tile the invisible vis i billows of ether con can bs be measured u red with the tha sanity samo easo ease and certainty as th that at with sith which an ar engineer gincer measures a base mind and two tingles angles and from these finds the distance across the thames hero here Is one of his sunbursts sun bursts la Is something ennobling in n the triumph of mind over Tr matter iatter apart even from its uses to society there Is Pom something ethIng elevating in the idea of nun having timed ted that wild force velch flashes through the telegraph wire and makes it the alie minister of ills his will then he tells of roans mails progress in subduing tho the earth and its forces from rom horse and mule up to the steam engine anil and says animal strength falls but here tire are the forces which hold the together and tho the instincts and juncos s of milli man assure win him that these forces are his when ahen ho he Is wise miss enough to com command marid them then hei he asks turks why aby members of rail lament for instance should be ignorant of the subjects concerning which a aich they axe are called upon to lg legislate slate and declares that the education which does not supply tho the want avant here re ret frred to falls in its duty duly to england ile he believes thoa that the study to the workingmen would be profitable not only as a means of intellectual culture but also a as it a moral influence to woo them from pursuits that now degrade them lie he bewailed the fact that for fop want of culture the men who rho ahoi k la in our factories and foundries cannot observe what they see and adds grant these Sain sons sight and you multiply ane chances of discovery dl covery and with them the prospects of national advancement ile he be llevad tho the tearful fearful accidents in coal mines would be avoided except tor fot the low intellectual ILI condition of it the miners next he be described lila its manner of teaching it was avas to sIth withdraw draw the tha boys from the routine of the book and to appeal to their self power in the treatment of questions not comprehended in that routine the close of the lecture is very beautiful and wo ire copy jt A jn in part parl if there be one profession in england of paramount importance I 1 belove believe it to be that of ill the a schoolmaster and if there be a position v here selfishness ne and incompetence do most serious mischief by lowering the ton tono and exciting hr li reverence everence and cunning where reverence rind and noble truthfulness ought to bo be the feelings evoked it Is that of EL a principal of a school when what a man of large mind ani and heart cornea comes among boys when ho he allows allow its ills spirit to stream through them and abse observes arves tho the operation of his own character evidenced in tile the elevation of lt would bo be idle to talk of the position of such a a man mail being honorable liono the man inn Is a blessing to tilma elf elt and all around him such men mail I 1 believe are arc to bo be found in england und it behooves those who aho busy with ill the mechanics of education at tile presena present day to seek ool C them out for no matter what meant means of if culture may be chosen chomen whether thor physical or philological success must ever mainly chipenda upon tho amount of lire life love lind and tile hie leather himself brings with him to his bis location there are men in fit till this aglon NI who ho do not believe that great i real met nicci avid women oman ar r nc iu dudl foi dl roti f tear a bein liri or that A treat groat is 11 a great crt nl agent ill tho tha world let at such men read the last few 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