An Experiment in Education, Made at the Male Asylum at Egmore, Near Madras, Suggesting a System by Which a School or Family May Teach Itself Under Th

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1805 Excerpt: ... ever observed, that the smallest inattention to the preservation of any part of the system occasions a proportional falling off., Some of the facts, to which a reference was made above, are as follow: William Smith, a youth of seventeen years of age, attended the embassy to Tippoo Sultaun, when the hostage princes were restored, and went through a course of experimentsj in natural philosophy in the presence of the Sultaun; and was detained nineteen days by the Sultaun, after the embassy had taken leave, to instruct two of his arz begs (lords of the requests) in the use of an extensive and elegant philosophical and mathematical apparatus, presented to him by the.government of Madras. Boys of twelve years of age have been instructed in arithmetic vulgar and decimal, bookkeeping, grammar, geography, geometry, mensuration, navigation, and astronomy/ Several boys of twelve years of age, and only two years in school, have learnt arithmetic, as.far as vulgar fractions, grammar, and geography. '.See Appendix. In regard to several of these sciences, little more is meant in general, than that some of the boys, for whom it seemed eligible, are initiated in their first elements, that if their future destination require it, they may build on the foundation here laid. Boys of nine years of age, and only two years in school, have learnt grammar and geography. Charles Hancock, a boy of fourteen years and one month, has assisted in teaching the first class, with diligence and success, for a year. Stevens, a boy of fourteen years and three months, has, for the same time, taught the second class of twenty-eight boys, v ho are instructed in geography, grammar, and arithmetic as far as vulgar fractions, with great ability and success. This youth has the sole charge of this cla...