THE

AMERICAN

Journal of Education.

EDITED BY

HENRY BARNARD, LL.D.

VOLUME XVI.

NEW SERIES. VOLUME VI.

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.

THE

American Journal of Education.

[NEW SERIES, NO. 17.]
No. XLII.-MARCH, 1866.

CONTENTS.

PORTRAIT OF RT. REV. ALONZO POTTER, D. D., LL. D.,

I. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE,..

1. Elementary Schools,....

Historical Development from 1621 to 1864,..

Present System-Organization-Internal Economy,..

II. THE NATURE AND VALUE OF EDUCATION,....

A Prize Essay on (1) Physical, (2,) Intellectual, (3.) Moral Education,.

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III. THE DIGNITY OF THE SCHOOL MASTER'S WORK,........

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A paper designed for the Argentine Confederation by Senor D. P. Sarmiento,..

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IV. DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF NORMAL SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES,.

LABORS OF REV. SAMUEL READ HALL FROM 1833 To 1840,.

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LABORS OF JAMES G. CARTER IN BEHALF OF NORMAL SCHOOLS IN MASSACHUSETTS, 77

Outline of an Institution for the Education of Teachers-February, 1825,...

Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts, by James G. Carter, 1826,...

Report by W. B. Calhoun of Select Committee of Legislature, on Memorial, 1827,.

INFLUENCE OF THE PRUSSIAN SYSTEM OF NORMAL SCHOOLS,...

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Report of Alexander H. Everett, and Statements by Dr. Julius, in 1836,.

MEMORIAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION IN 1837,.

MUNIFICENT OFFER OF EDMUND Dwight-LEGISLATION OF MASS., 1838..

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V. THE ORIGINAL FREE OR TOWN SCHOOL OF NEW ENGLAND...

Characteristics found in the first Town School of Dorchester,..

VI. GLIMPSES OF THE MEANS AND CONDITION OF AMERICAN EDUCATION PRIOR TO 1800, 109

1. North Carolina-Autobiography of Prof. Charles Caldwell, M. D.,..............................

2. South Carolina-Reported Conversation of General Marion on Free Schools,..

3. Georgia-Barring out the Schoolmaster, a School Scene,.....

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VII. SCHOOLS AS THEY WERE. Described by those who went to them. Third Article,....126

Jeremiah Day-Willard Hall-A. Bronson Alcott-Henry Ward Beecher,..

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VIII. FEMALE EDUCATION AS IT WAS,.....

137

IX. AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL BIOGRAPHY,..

141

X. HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES,.

Portraits of Newton Bateman-Richard Edwards-J. V. N. Standish,.

Report to Convention of State Superintendents-February, 1865,.

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XII. ADVICE ON STUDIES AND CONDUCT-BY MEN EMINENT IN LETTERS AND AFFAIRS,. 187

Letter of Lord Brougham-on the Training of a Public Speaker,.

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Letter of Thomas Carlyle-on Reading and Working,..

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