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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65215	Considerations concerning free-schools as settled in England	Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1678 (1678)	Wing W1015; ESTC R38239	54,418	122

Disciples asking the solution of what was allegorically deliver'd prescribe Rules to the Scholar of a modest liberty in propounding his doubts apposite to the present lesson and subject in discourse as also to the Master of a gentle condescension in resolving those doubts that he think it not grievous to repeat to inculcate his instructions with regard to the difficulty of the matter in debate or slowness of the Learners comprehension Thus have many Teachers been improv'd by forming an apt answer to pregnant questions propos'd by their Auditors And for our Instruction doubtless was the child Jesus found in the Temple sitting in the midst of the Doctors both hearing them and asking them questions This work hath been carried on by exercise or Books As for Sundaies and Festivals Verses upon the proper Gospel or Psalms reading sacred Poëms Dialogues Epistles Meditations Confessions and such like pieces which have been set forth in a small form fitted for the use of young Learners In divers Places the Statutes require over and above decent attendance on the publick worship that the Scholars be call'd to render an account of what they were taught When S t. Chrysostome upon occasion had prest his Auditors to the repeating at home what they had at Church heard that every House-keeper being return'd would spread a double Table the one of bodily food the other of the word of God and the Husband to recount what had been there spoken the Wife to learn the Children also to hear nay the very servants not to be debarr'd from that repetition Make thy House saith he a Church as being accountable for the Souls of thy Family as the Minister stands charg'd with those of the whole Congregation the people of Antioch hereupon broke out into loud Acclamations which that Father accepted not as an empty Applause but as the pledge of their obedience As to the religious conduct of youth I shall onely add upon this Head that there is extant a Treatise of the same Fathers anciently styled the Golden Book of Education brought to light by the learned Combefis and render'd into English by M r. John Evelyn a person whose fruitful industry hath oblig'd his Country nor ever to be mention'd by me without much honor §. 40. Further as care is taken that the Masters Salary be duely paid so because the Tenure is not Frank-almain as was that of Abbies and may that of Hospitals be call'd but what implys a duty to be perform'd which gives Title to the Reward in many places besides the Governors special Visitors are appointed whether some Gentry by the designation of the Founder thought fit and willing to oversee the discharge of the trust or some three or four Neighbor Ministers who annually at certain prefix'd time or times preside over the sollemn exercise of the Scholars and from their proficience estimate the abilities and diligence of the Master After all which the Bishop as general Visitor both superintends the Master and is Head of the Commission for charitable Uses Indeed subordination and Dependency is the form of Bodies collective without which nothing is strong nothing is beautiful The more immediat concern of the Church Organical successive is commended to the Bishop not onely by the Holy Scripture but by the ancient Canons by Canon-Law and by the Statutes of this Realm and practise of all Ages and places Christian the Ordinary gives licence to the School-Master and exacts his duty but withall the same with other Commissioners by him engag'd vindicates School-Revenues detain'd by Executors or interverted by Trustees As much fond as any are of Liberty no man surely envys the greatness of that power which he apprehends for his own Interest And Interest in the highest Prelate may the poorest School-Master assure by assiduity and vigilance over himself his small flock I shall onely add upon this Head that such seeming not to have consider'd enough their own weakness draw upon them●●●●es the low rate and esteem set upon this Profession and gratify that whether overt hatred or inconsiderate policy of others in impeaching the growth and flourishing of the state Scholastick whosoever do not with humble gratitude embrace that superabundant strength which God hath vouchsaf'd them from the Kings Majesty the common Nursing Father of publick Schools in his gracious Letters Patents from the High and Honorable Court of Parliament in Laws made for their Immunity and Vindication from worthy Neighbors or worshipful Companies of the great City their vigilant and faithful Governors from many of the Nobility Gentry or Neighboring Ministers often their special Visitors lastly from the Right Reverend their Diocesan and Spiritual Father always their general Visitor §. 41. There remains another advantage of publick Schools the greatest benefit to Learners after the Master is a good Library Before the Art of Printing was discover'd when Books all written by hand were rare and however less correct and compleat to be purchas'd at excessive rates those that set up Schools in the Provinces of the Empire Greek and Latine Heathen or Christian provided themselves ordinarily with some store of Copies to promote the common studies of their Scholars with themselves And even in that affluence of Books which this present Age daily furnishes although a Parent can afford to provide his Son of such as are cheap and portable for his present use as he proceeds in Learning yet there are voluminous Authors Pillars of a Library which would highly advance Study yet are not the purchase of every one that is most studious and therefore best able to use them In which regard a Library would even at the present be reputed a necessary Member of a School-House This would not consist of promiscuous Books English Histories Treatises in Faculties of Law Physick and Divinity unseasonably read intervert the time due for other studies preparatory to the Scholars daily exercise and therefore Universities lay a prudent restraint on Artists according to their several progress in the Facultie to keep some years in Seats at the entrance of the publick Library under Books of those Arts about which they are for that time conversant Some having been question'd how it came to pass that former Ages who fram'd the very Theoremes of those Sciences in compiling and transforming the Systemes whereof we so much glory could advance so far have been ready to attribute it to the fewness of their Books upon this very account not without some appearance of reason though how truly I list not here farther to enquire Be therefore onely proper and organical Books hither admitted and few of that sort would be excluded He is a good Workman that can use every Tool Even those writings that are earnestly censurd as hindrances to Scholarship allow'd with careful directions in their time and place prove helps to proficiency Better were it for the peace and comfort of Life if it fell out in matters of higher consequence

that we were never prone to condemn and inveigh where we should rather limit and caution This Book is to be read over that consulted onely This to furnish matter that disposition a third ornament Words and Phrases are not sufficient to form a discourse nor a Concordance to make a Sermon they do not therefore obstruct they may conduce to the Work A systematical Artist is not the worst Artist They that always despise helps to perfection may as much prejudice their own profiting as those that continually rest in them Best Editions as latest are ordinarily may be desirable yet former are not to be rejected So much judgement in dealing with the Bookseller as not to buy corrupt Copies at the rate of the best but at a price vile as they are is frugality in a Scholar when to be skil'd in the choice of Editions and withal so ice as to nauseat what is not most elegant in Print and Binding is not discretion in a poor Student but Luxury Few Books well chosen may be of much use and the benefaction considerable but because Scholars grow these also range themselves into suitable Classes and because Schools grow they may spread Were I able to pursue this Argument particularly and at large it might be perhaps with some Readers of use but would arise to a just Volume both beyond the bounds and besides the Nature of this short Essay Some Heads of matter it may be nevertheless not amiss to draw over Therefore consider we learning in its Birth Growth and Ripeness and distribute we our Scholar into the Grammarian the Linguist and Critick both in Greek and Latine In the first Class Grammar and Dictionary each small middling or large The large Dictionary would be Ety mological as a Latine Scapula Which method seems most natural to words and best complys with the memory of Children Now whilst Sentences Fables Dialogues Epistles are carrying on the practise of Translation for instance of English-Latine Latine-English mutuasly best advance here with truth of interpretation Noun and Verb join'd as congruously so proper each to other Particles rightly us'd fall in and from these result a phrase lively and in some sort elegant Distinct helps to these are rather to be sought then refus'd as Phrasiologies Elegancies Idioms directions for the use of Particles and the like Guides of Imitation Of which form are Rolls of Names Glosses enterlin'd or side by side literal Translations in a word Locks and Keys and Doors of Language not successless as may be attested by many Late-Learners especially to furnish fluent discourse upon all Subjects the Greek yet wider in its Dialects and curious in its Tone For a second Class when style cometh to be form'd and the Scholar proceeding to the Classical Authors is enter'd upon Theam and Verse aids are here most needful Select Orators Poëts Historians fair and true printed at least with the Life and Testimonies concerning the Author with Arguments and some with plain and useful comments apart or in Bodies as the Greek and Latine Poëts and Authors of the Imperial History Abridgements too not to be disparag'd Match me L. Florus and Justine these conduce not to the memory onely but to the understanding also while they bring actions disjoin'd in time and place under one view accommodated to the narrow capacity of unripe judgements especially when illustrated by Tables Genealogical Chronological Geographical and what perhaps are beyond comments to studious Children profitable would be had the approved Translations of Historians Orators and Poëts into our own tongue since by them a Child cometh at once to understand writers how-ever abstruse equally with the man that had particularly at leisure inform'd himself in that Author But for assistance in Theam Invention is a hard Tax to be layd on the barren and unfurnish'd minds of Children Therefore let these busy Bees fall upon those flowry meads that have been fenc'd in by the industry of others let the young merchants trade in Witts Common-Wealth for an Apophthegm an Example a Similitude till they can set up a Staple at home the wisdom of Proverbs is not to be neglected and therefore Adagies at large or in their abstract would be procur'd Symbols and Emblems are embellishments rather pleasing when offer'd then requir'd When ripe for Institutions of Oratory there would be prepar'd a small middling and large Rhetorick such are extant old and latter Greek and Latine till they arrive at Declamation and Panegyrick As to Poëtry steps not unlike do well A Poëtick Institution small middling and large Then authority for quantities in making a Copy of Verses Their matter will be scant enlarge it with Poëtical Fables and Fancys these too moraliz'd by Mythological applications of such as have unlock'd the mysterie of Poësy Their Language mean Open to them the Store-house of Poëtical phrase Flowers of speech proper Epithets fashionable terms and choice of Expression all which are yet further'd by select Sentences Epigrams Epistles Orations and pieces of History thus the very Fragments of Sallust and Cornelius Nepos and Polybius may compare with the most compleat Volumes of divers other Writers A third Class of school-School-Books to finish this Library would be further serviceable when the style being well form'd and the judgement grown to some maturity the Scholar sticks no longer in the bare forms of speaking or composition of Sentences but can so read whole Books as to compare one Book with another and some parts with other parts of the same Book and yet be glad at times to have recourse to an Index or Synopsis can raise higher observations from them for common Life for Morals for Policy Here would he be help'd in Antiquities in Presidents of solemn Acts in several Pieces of particular Eruditions as of Measures Weights Coins Habits and the Histories of other like Species now begins he to discern Readings true from false authorities genuin from supposititious a skill that hath done the Church service in allegations of greater concern Therefore would relish variant Lections compar'd diligently He begins now to control time and place Therefore would he be enter'd into rationaries of time and Geographical Institutions the greater by the less not unacquainted with Maps and Globes Wit cannot be taught but may be provok'd and emulation ariseth betwixt persons chiefly where no great inequality is apprehended Therefore modern Poëts Orators Historians or other late Writers in Greek and Latine that have well imitated the Ancients would have their due place and respect since it may deservedly move disdain in an ingenuous spirit if that should be feasible to others of the Age wherein he lives unto which he might not aspire This Collection cannot every-where be made in one day If Gentlemen could once judge these publick Schools worthy to be trusted with the Education of their Children as in almost all Counties some are undoubtedly most fit they would without difficulty be induc'd at the entring of their Son to bestow some useful Book