Popular Education. Ira Mayhew
Mayhew.
Monroe, Mich., July 4th, 1850.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| In what does a correct Education consist? | Page 13 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Importance of Physical Education | 28 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Physical Education—The Laws of Health | 44 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The Laws of Health—Philosophy of Respiration | 81 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| The Nature of Intellectual and Moral Education | 111 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The Education of the Five Senses | 146 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Necessity of Moral and Religious Education | 193 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Importance of Popular Education | 224 |
| Education dissipates the Evils of Ignorance | 226 |
| Education increases the Productiveness of Labor | 253 |
| Education diminishes Pauperism and Crime | 286 |
| Education increases human Happiness | 311 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Political Necessity of National Education | 325 |
| The Practicability of National Education | 353 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Means of Universal Education | 362 |
| Good School-houses should be provided | 372 |
| Well-qualified Teachers should be employed | 410 |
| Schools should continue through the Year | 440 |
| Every Child should attend School | 442 |
| The redeeming Power of Common Schools | 454 |
| Index. | 461 |
NATIONAL POPULAR EDUCATION.
CHAPTER I.
IN WHAT DOES A CORRECT EDUCATION CONSIST?
I call that education which embraces the culture of the whole man, with all his faculties—subjecting his senses, his understanding, and his passions to reason, to conscience, and to the evangelical laws of the Christian revelation.—De Fellenberg.
From the beginning of human records to the present time, the inferior animals have changed as little as the herbage upon which they feed, or the trees beneath which they find shelter. In one generation, they attain all the perfection of which their nature is susceptible. That Being without whose notice not even a sparrow falls to the ground, has provided for the supply of their wants, and has adapted each to the element in which it moves. To birds he has given a clothing of feathers; and to quadrupeds, of furs, adapted to their latitudes. Where art is requisite in providing food for future want, or in constructing a needful habitation, as in the case of the bee and the beaver, a peculiar aptitude has been bestowed, which, in all the inferior races of animals, has been found adequate to their necessities. The crocodile that issues from its egg in the warm sand, and never sees its parent, becomes,