Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-07-13 | Page 2 | Gives Dickens Credit

GIVES DICKENS CREDIT Hill Did Much for ro PI Public lc Et Ethical Education len t lot iOl Says Sas Dr hughes Dickens as an Educator was the theme therne of the lie co closing lecture of Dr James JamesL s L L. g o of Toronto delivered at Barratt liar Bar r- r rl hall hal last evening h and after listening to o It I. I on one could coull not fall fal to agree with wih Dr Hughes in his statement mI made at nt the thc beginning of the address that that- that Dickens Is s the greatest t educator that England has produced In an artcle article written In 1 Sickens a advocated Froebel's Ideas In what whal Dr Hughes characterized as the best arIde artIce article ar ar- ar- ar Ide tIce on the kindergarten that lint was ever written wiltEn In the English language In that article artcle Dickens said aid Do Justice anti and anc honor to the tho nature of a child and there lucre is II 3 no other greater thou thought ht expressed In Inthe inthe the he language according to the hue Idea Ilea of or Dr Hughes unless It I be he Unit that other say- say hag Ing ng Train Trin up UJ a child chil In the wa way he lie should hould go 0 etc Dr Hughes quoted quote nt at ol length from the I writings of Dickens esp especially those thos in which school life Is dwelt upon Dickens I laving having l treated of t twenty eight wen t different t schools In his books Looks of or the educational defects pointed out L by Dickens In these books hook which are so 80 valuable to the tho students students stu stu- stu- stu dents of pedagogy and which had thc they riot not been bEen written In the form of or novels would have ave reached but few r whereas th they hey I hn have been read by millions