ESUME OF LECTURES ON EDUCATION, BY C.C. HOWARD, ESQ, F.R.G.S.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 138, 13 November 1877, Page 2

ESUME OF LECTURES ON EDUCATION, BY C.C. HOWARD, ESQ, F.R.G.S.

Lecture XVI. Subject—Okder, and how * to secure it; Disorder, and how to prevent it. Hints on Class Management.

The word Order is derived from 5 Ordo, arrangement, and its old meaning signified to bind or fasten wool, to spin, to weave ;; hence the word signifies any fixed determinate arrangement for a given end. The schoolroom should be made the place where is found the recognised presence of law. Loyal obedience of every individual is as necessary for the good government of the school as of the people. The teacher should aim to exercise thorough control—a subdual of self the children, and a readiness to do what is prescribed by others'. Disorder is the absence of control, self-assertion, the being resolved to do when and how whatever the person himself pleases. The duty of self control must be taught continually by precept and by example. The teacher should create an orderly atmosphere in the school, and arrange a proper time and a proper place for everybody and everything in the school. He should impress upon his scholars the fact that school is the realm of order, and that it has a special influence to be exerted. Out-of-door exercises should be hearty, but all such feelings should be subdued on entering the school. The necessity of order should be enforced by exam pie of-, the junior teachers. Disorder creates idleness, and shews a lack of interest in the Bclu ol work. • The time table should,be prepared with care, and the lessons he various, short, and interesting. Remove all incour vemiences, and' avoid all excesses oi warmth or cold. Teachers should have no, f chilly''to win the confidence'of all the children. In class management, children should" be taught to act and work together as a body, and only in thinking to be independent of each other. The various phases of character in children should be carefully watched, and made use of to the best advantage.