Index:The education of the farmer.djvu

Title	The education of the farmer
Author	Thomas Dyke Acland
Year	1857
Publisher	J. Ridgway
Location	London
Source	djvu
Progress	Done—All pages of the work proper are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
Validated in	April 2016

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CONTENTS.
 
 

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Introduction	1
The Education of the Farmer not to be separated from Middle-Class Education generally	6
Middle-Class Education must prepare—
1, for business, not for college	7
2, for dealing with things rather than with men	8
Education of the Child:—
Mother's training	10
Servants	13
Education of the Boy:—
School and schoolfellows	14
Useful education illustrated	15
i. What is really useful for business:—
Language	20
Calculation	20
Natural philosophy	21
Chemistry and physical science	22
ii. What is useful to educate a Man : —
Literature, late Professor Hussey	24
Awakens mental power	25
⁠Coleridge's schoolmaster	27
⁠Cyril Jackson	28
Trains moral feeling	28
The study of language	32
Should farmers learn Latin?	34
Opinions of Mr. Penrose	36
⁠„⁠ Dr. Boole	36
⁠„⁠ Mr. Thring	37
⁠„⁠ Dr. Kennedy	38
Geography and history	38
Drawing and music	40
The expense of education	41
For small farmers	44
For the higher yeomanry	45
Middle-class colleges	45
APPENDIX.
Extracts from Dr. Arnold on Middle-Class Schools	50
Letter from Dr. Voelcker on Teaching Chemistry at School	52
Eton Questions on Chemistry. By Mr. Pepper	53
Rev. Stephen Hawtrey on Music as a means of General Education	55
List of Books	57