OUR subject may seem to the reader a commonplace and well-nigh exhausted one, and may prompt him to turn our pages rapidly in search of more novel and more entertaining matter. We, nevertheless, presume to invite his patient attention while we present a few considerations in connection with this subject. We desire to consider it from a student's point of view, – although not restricting ourselves to this, feeling that many of the defects in the modern educational systems are due to a neglect to recognize that there are these two views of education, the teacher's and the student's. It will be well to explain what we understand by these terms. By the teacher's view, we mean the theory of education as propounded by instructors and school committees, and as practically carried out in the educational institutions of the present day. By the student's view, we mean that knowledge of the inadequacy of a large part of modern education to really satisfy an earnest mind, which is gained by the student who possesses a decided aim in his pursuit of study, and who not only studies, but also thinks. It may seem as presumptuous for one who occupies the position of a learner to attempt to advise in regard to the VOL. VI. NO. 48. 1 |