Inspector of Schools, Toronto Author of Froebel's Educational Laws Mistakes in Teaching, etc. The following pages are sufficient to establish the claim of Mr. Hughes for Dickens as an educational reformer--the greatest that England has produced. It will be admitted that he has done more than any one else to secure for the child a considerate treatment of his tender age. "It is a crime against a child to rob it of its childhood." This principle was announced by Dickens, and it has come to be generally recognised and adopted. Gradually it is changing the methods of primary instruction and bringing into vogue a milder form of discipline and a more stimulative teaching--arousing the child's sel…
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