THE

AMERICAN

Journal of Education.

EDITED BY

HENRY BARNARD, LL.D.

VOLUME XV.

NEW SERIES. VOLUME V.

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY HENRY BARNARD.

NEW YORK: F. C. BROWNELL. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CU

BOSTON: E. P. DUTTON.

LONDON. TRÜBNER & CO., 64 PATERNOSTER ROW.

1865.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by

HENRY BARNARD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.

THE

American Journal of Education.

[NEW SERIES, NO. 13.]

No. XXXVIII.-MARCH, 1865.

CONTENTS.

PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL R. HALL, Principal of the first Teachers' Seminary in the U. S.,.....

L. THE AMERICAN DOCTRINE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,.......

Address to the People of New Jersey-Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane,....

Penn, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jay, Rush,..

Educational Policy of Massachusetts-Horace Mann,.

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II. NAVAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES,......

REPORT OF VISITORS OF NAVAL ACADEMY FOR 1864,..

III. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION TO OUR NATIONAL SCHOOLS,......... 51

Speech of Senator Anthony of Rhode Island in U. S. Senate,.

Opinion of General Thayer and others,.......

IV. NATIONAL Literary and SCIENTIFIC CONVENTION IN 1830-31,.

V. NAVAL AND Navigation SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND,...................

VI. THE PUBLIC OR ENDOWED GRAMMAR SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND,.

REPORT OF THE QUEEN'S COMMISSIONERS, 1861-1864,..

Origin-Endowment-Government-Statutes-Foundation Scholars,.

Course and Subjects of Instruction-Classes-Promotions-Prizes,....

Results-Introduction of Modern Languages and Science,..

Physical Training-Discipline-Monitors-Fagging....

Religious Teaching and Influence-Domestic and Sanitary Rules,.

Fees and Charges-Holidays-City Schools,.

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Summary of General Recommendations by the Commissioners,.

VIL HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN EDUCATION,..

The American School Society-1830 to 1833,.

Biographical Sketch of its Officers,...

VIII. ENGLISH TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS,....

Sir Henry Wotton, Provost of Eton College,..

IX. ENGLISH PEDAGOGY,.......

MENTAL ARCHITECTURE, or APHORISMS ON EDUCATION,..

X. NATIONAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION IN 1864,........

IL ENGLISH GRAMMAR.........

Introductory Discourse before the National Teachers' Association,...

XII. LIBERAL EDUCATION, OR THE AMERICAN COLLEGE CURRICULUM,.............

A Lecture by S. P. Bates, Deputy Superintendent of Common Schools in Penn.,.... 175

XIII. COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIP OF PEDAGOGICS,.........

Abstract of a Lecture by Prof. Hill, of Harvard College,...............................

Read before the National Teachers' Association by J. L. Bulkley,.

XVI. OBJECT TEACHING. BY DR. H. B. WILBUR,.........................

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ELEMENTARY TRAINING,....................................................................... 189

THE OSWEGO SYSTEM OF OBJECT TEACHING............

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