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The education of children in learning declared by the dignitie, vtilitie, and method thereof. Meete to be knowne, and practised aswell of parents as schoolmaisters.
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Kempe, William.
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1588
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THE Education of children in learning Declared by the Dignitie Vtilitie and Method thereof Meete to be knowne and practi sed aswell of Parents as Schoolemaisters Teach a childe in the trade of his way and when he is old he shall not depart from it Prou. 22 6. Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in learning and information of the Lord. Ephes 6. 4. The rod and correction giue wisedome but a child set at libertie maketh his mother ashamed Prou 29. 15. Foolishnes is tied in the heart of a child but the rod of discipline shall driue it away Prou. 22. 15. Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin for Iohn Porter and Thomas Gubbin 1588. To the right Worshipfull Maister VVilliam Hawkins Esquier Maior of the Towne of Plimmouth and to the worship full companie his Brethren the Maisters of the Towne W. K. wisheth prosperitie in this life and euerlasting ioy in the life to come ALthough it bee a matter of it selfe most euident that the discipline and vertuous bringing vp of children in good learning is the very foundation and groundworke of all good in euery estate aswell priuate as publike yet such is the corruption and iniquitie of our time that most men are found very carelesse and slacke to do their duetie therein yea there want not those that in flat termes affirme it to bee superfluous insomuch that they can do well enough in their owne iudgement without it For what parents in these daies haue not more care to prouide wealth for their children than wisedome More care to leaue theÌ„ lands and liuings in this world than to bequeath them that knowledge whereby they may enioy the right vse and fruites of these temporall blessings be directed the right way to that glorious inheritance layd vp for Gods children in heauen The common practise of many parents proueth this complaynt to bee true and the priuate talke of some defendeth this practise to be good VVherefore hauing regard of my duetie in this behalfe and being assured of your VVorships courtesie in accepting my good will to withdraw my neighbours and countrie men from this prophane opinion and pernicious custome and to allure them vnto a better and more godly consideration I haue thought good in your VVorships name to set before them first as it were in a Preface the excellent dignitie of this Discipline then the vtilitie and afterwards in the rest of the booke a Treatise of the easiest and playnest way to be vsed therein Your Worships euer to commaund in the Lord W.K. ¶ To the Gentle Reader I Haue sent you deere friend a little pamphlet of the education of Children in learning which is no phantasticall nor idle toy but a verie profitable matter and most necessarie to be vrged in this secure and licentious generation Wherein I confesse that many learned men haue alreadie bestowed verie exquisit and commendable labours yet for that we haue endeuoured not only to fill vp the emptie roome with such members as wanted and to sepatate that which seemed superfluous but also to new cast the whole in another mould and to bring it to another forme breefe and easie I suppose that it will seeme altogether a strange and a new Booke Furthermore where as the charge of teaching apperteineth but onely to a fewe of the learneder sort namely to Scholemaysters we to make the argument more popular haue prefixed a necessarie exhortation for all other sort of people setting foorth the dignitie and vtilitie of the matter with such holie and ancient Histories with such plaine and sensible reasons as may teach the vnlearned with some delight and not be tedious to those that are learned Agayne to satisfye in some part the expectation of the learned we haue handled the method more methodically and adorned the whole worke with some wittie Greeke and Latin sentences englishing the same neuertheles in the Margent for the behoofe of the vnlearned And as generally both sorts may peraduenture thinke that the reading of it will be worth the labour so almost euery one of each sort in particular may finde somewhat for his purpose For who is it of what state or degree soeuer vpon whom God hath not cast the care and charge either of teaching or of learning or else of causing others to be taught and learned Farewell VV. K. ¶ Io. Sw. In Authorem â—ogdoastichon STurmius Ramus Freigius Manutius Ascham Quicquid ad hoc spectans explicuere genus Kempus id omne tenet bene collocat edocet Anglos Sedulitate simul cum pietate pari Lectio sedulitas labor hac placuere peritis Nec dabit inuidia tam pia cura locum Sin tamen immerito Theonino dente petare Perfer ab hijs melius te meruisse memor Abrahami Wislaki de libri argumento Epigramma QVantus honos Parnasse tuus reuerentia quanta Quos Helicon fructus praemia quanta feras Fronte canit prima modulato pectine musa Doctisoni reserans limina trina fori Tùm quid amor patrius peragat doctusque magister Depingit Satyros procul esse iubet Quo mandat puer ore cibos quae mansa remandat Quas tenero primas deligat vngue rosas Et quî firmato procurrat poplite tandem Perfacili rectum tramite pandit iter Vel tibi Thersites mordax quod carpere possis Hîc nihilest nihilest hic tibi liuor iners Semper enim Charites sequitur licet obstrepat vsque Stentorio Momus gutture verus honos VLtimus victor telum contorsit Acestes Vltimaque victrix vestra Thalia canit Namque exsors tibi restat honos rex magno Olympi Sic vult inuidit nec bonus Eurytion Hen. Whit. in operis Authoris laudem QVe spinosa diu rigidis fuit horrida saxis Plana fit ad musas te duce Kempe Via AA ⧠The Dignitie of Schooling IT is common with heathen men when they will commend their Nobilitie to deriue their pedegree from their Gods giuing vs to vnderstand thereby that if there were any excellencie in them it came not of themselues but God was the author thereof Therefore O most noble discipline from whence doest thou fetch thy pedegree What parentage hast thou Who is the author of thine excellencie Who should it be els but the father of lights euen the author of euery good and perfect gift He at the beginning created man in perfect righteousnesse and holinesse beautified him with all singular knowledge He also after the fall of man gaue his only Sonne to restore him agayne and ordayned meanes and wayes by the which not onely his seruants might be made partakers of this restauration but generally all men might leade an honest and ciuill life here in this present world the doore and enterance wherevnto is this discipline and schooling which I speake of But what are the men vpon whom this gift was first bestowed Who entertayned it Who hath been a practiser and furtherer thereof Surely
games of rowing running whorlebatting shooting and skirmishing on horsebacke at the graue of Anchises his father like to Achilles games of riding whorlebatting running sword playing hurling the stone shooting and casting the darte at the Tombe of Patroclus his deare friend the harnesse of Aeneas made by Vulcan like to the harnesse of Achilles made by him also And in diuers places but not euery where he doth imitate Homers descriptions similitudes phrases and words as Manutius and other learned men haue both noted and quoted Now when the Scholler hath been a while exercised in this kinde of imitation sometime in prose sometime in verse let him assay otherwhiles without an example of imitation what he can do alone by his owne skill alreadie gotten by the precepts and the two former sorts of practise After a three yeeres exercise in this degree of studie he may aâ—tend to the fourth degree of Arithmetike and Geometrie And according to the same manner easely passe through these Artes in halfe a yeere and so before the full age of sixteene yeeres be made fit to wade without a schoolemaister through deeper mysteries of learning to set forth the glorie of God and to benefite his Countrie And thus the maisters duetie of orderly teaching by precepts and by practise of them not only in vnfolding other mens workes but also in making somewhat of a mans owne and that either by imitation of examples or without imitation wee haue breefly declared His duetie of gouerning is to prescribe a good order both for manners and learning and to cause the same to bee kept These good orders therefore spoken of in the fathers duetie aswell concerning godlinesse as of daylie praying of resorting to the Church of reuerent attentiuenes there of learning the doctrine of Christian religion as also concerning Christian honestie that is of obedience to parents and gouernours reuerence to superiours courteous manners towards all men ciuill behauiour in all words and deedes the maister shall efâ—soone repeate vnto his schollers sowing in their tender mindes the seedes of Christian holinesse Further he shall appoynt vnto them the time of comming to schoole and going thence how and wherein they shall spend euery houre there when they shall repeate precepts of Arte when they shall meditate and learne their lesson and renter an account thereof to their maister when they shall exercise themselues in translating writing of theames verses and such like studies These and all other good orders that may further vertue learning the Maister shall plainly declare straitly enioine vnto his Schollers causing them with all carefulnes to obserue the same by encouraging the good and reforming the bad for considering that the hope of honour and the feare of punishment are elementa virtutis wisely did Solon place the preseruation of the common wealth and consequently of the Schoole in prâ—mio poena The good then he shall encourage first with words praising them for their well doing declaring what great commoditie ensueth thereof and exhorting them to go forward This praise of it selfe alone is such a bait to drawe men to vertue that the Apostles Peter and Paule toke it generally for all rewards of well doing and Simonides saith that for the desire of glorie men will take any paine Then he shall encourage them with rewards for a good Schoolemaister is like a good Captaine Inuitat pratijs animos praemia ponit as sometimes to giue trifles and gay things to such as shewe any token of forwardnes diligence and wittines and to such as are victors in vertue according to Horaces saying Pueris dant crustula blandi Doctores elementa velint vt discere prima sometime to reward their painefull studie with libertie to recreate theÌ„selues by rest honest disport and walking abroade for otherwise as a bowe alwayes bent at length will lose his strength so the mind alwaies occupied in studie will waxe dull and not be able to endure Wherefore Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est Haec reparat vires fessaque membra iuuat Lo héere such praises such rewards are propounded vnto thée if thou be a good Schollar consider them well Tantáne tam patiens nullo certamine Dona sines Shall they not encourage thée Shall they not make thee willing and diligent at leastwise though thou be so retchles that thou carest not for these rewards yet blush at that which followeth Nemo est tam agrestis quem si non ipsa honestas contumelia tamen dedecus magnopere moueat Let the vnthriftie then and those that do amisse be reformed and corrected by admonition rebuking and punishing acording to y e qualitie of the fault for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 First therefore let him be admonished then rebuked herein the cause shall be throughly sifted paciently heard by equitie iudged and last of all soundly reproued that the conscience of the offender may be touched for the fault if this will not serue for Non satis vna tenet ceratas anchor a puppes aâ— also punishment sometime with the rod which according to Salomons saying driueth away foolishnes that is tied to the childs hart and maketh him wise and learned sometime punishment by restraining that libertie of recreation which otherwise should haue bin graunted and sometime by seruice of drudgerie as may be the swéeping of the Schoole c. Generally of all these corrections none may be differred when it is fit time nor executed before due time Temporibus medicina valet data teÌ„pora prosunt Et data non apto tempore vina nocent But if the Maister at any time for some iust cause do omit the deserued correction he shall threaten a greater and perfourme it also when the next fault shall require y e same Et semper lentuÌ„ pensabit acerbo These are the meanes to allure Schollars to vertue and to driue them from vice which as Plutarch counselleth must be vsed by turne sometime the one and sometime the other after the fashion of a louing nursse who when she hath made her child weepe for his fault giueth him the teat to still him againe which resembleth also the discretion of the cunning Physician that tempereth his bitter medicines with sweete and pleasant drinke But if any be so incorrigible that neither the sweete rewards of vertue can leade him nor the bitter correction of vice draw him to amend let him be cut off from the Schoole Ne pars syncera traâ—atur for he that dwelleth with a Creple will learne to halt and doubtlesse many haue perished with this poison Now we see all the parts properties of this most noble and profitable discipline as it were portraied out before our face which to some peraduenture may yet séeme too hard for that it is so manifold the parts so diuers respect so diuers persons But what then should this make vs shrinke at the matter what