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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63806	A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them during their younger years shewing that they are capable ... : also, what methods is to be used by breeding women ... / written ... by Tho. Tryon ...	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3190; ESTC R34678	43,755	121

expressing each Word distinctly after you and making a Pause after every Word till the Child hath done repeating and when you come to any Words or Word that the Child cannot easily pronounce or express then you ought to reiterate it with a plain strong Voice assisting and helping the Child in his pronouncing but if it be still hard leave it go on it will perhaps be easilier done at another time Thus when you have read one Book or as much of it as you think fit chuse another provided always that your Books be innocent and pleasant by this means you shall accustom your Schollar to a variety of Prints Letters and Words which will be of great use to him whereas in the common Schools you see a Child that can read tolerably well in one Book or one Chapter and yet not be able to read a word in another but by practicing the Method we prescribe two or three Hours in a day in eight o● ten Weeks time the Child shall be able to read in most Books All the Sences have their appointed Offices Now the particular Office of Hearing is to receive in and distinguish Sounds and bring them thro' the proper Organs and present them to the Memory which is a Retentive Faculty of the Soul whose Office is to Register all the Ears have presented it with that they may be forth coming when any Occasion shall call for them Now the Ears being the natural Organs to receive all Sounds and Words that Sound Voice or Word that is spoken by another Person and receiv'd by a Third makes a far deeper Impression on the Memory than that which he reads himself So that he that reads aloud remembers more than he that reads softly to himself because the strong Speaking enters the Organs more forcibly and conveys the Sound and Sense to the Memory which records and presents it to the Judgment which is the guide of Actions and judges of what passes and repasses thro' the little World Man For this cause never any Man did or can pronounce any Language or Tongue truly and properly by reading of it only if he has not heard it spoke and truly pronounced to him which is the reason that many speak most of their words improperly tho' they have read them a thousand times but the Ears immediately catch what they hear properly spoken and convey it to the Memory so that it shall never be forgotten Now the Sense of Hearing is made good by Hearing as in Musical Harmouy by the common use and hearing of good Musick and Singing the Ear can distinguish Sounds and know when it is well perform'd and the like is to be understood of the speaking of Tongues For any Person shall learn to speak any Language by ten Degrees sooner and better by Hearing and Conversation than by any other Method Therefore Children shou'd be taught to speak the Tongue or Language by Hearing or Conversation before they think of learning the Rules For the Reason and Philosophy of Speaking is a great Art and the work of Time and not at all to be taught Children This preposterous Method does rather distract and confound them than improve and profit So that by the Methods commonly used in the Schools very few ever arrive to speak of many things It is Conversation that givesChildren an Universal Tongue or way of Speaking By this means viz. By frequency of Speaking and Discoursing the hardest words will become easie and familiar for as we said already they ought to speak and read perfectly before they enter upon the Reason and Rule of Speaking Now the Advantages of the fore mention'd Methods are First It saves Expence of Time which is of great Consequence in our Schools a Boy learns for seven Years and after all can neither write nor speak a Line of true Latin Besides the difficulty in their way of Proceeding damps and discourages the Child's Industry and Inclination to learn Secondly He shall pronounce his Words more properly and exactly Thirdly He shall more readily read in any strange Book offer'd him at first sight Fourthly It does wonderfully benefit and imprint the matter on the Memory of the Teacher so that there is as it were a Co-partnership in Learning between the Master and the Schollar Fifthly By this way any Father Mother or Friend may with Ease and Delight teach their own Children to read at home without the Charge or Trouble of sending them abroad to School where for the most part they learn nothing but lewd Words and ill Manners and in short lose all their time Sixthly This Method will not be only beneficial to Children but to those of maturer age that would learn to read well who may hereby be improv'd in three or four Weeks to admiration and be made capable of pronouncing all Words with their right tone and accent as well as if they had been bred Schollars For example when they have heard and been used to pronounce this word Participate short they will never say Par-ti-ci pate making the last Syllable save one long which wou'd be ridiculous yet these and a many other Absurdities are the effects of the common Methods of Teaching A true Method of Teaching to Write a good Legible Hand LET there be Copies Engraven and Printed on good Paper not one line only on the top or side as is usual for Writing Masters to place their Copies but in lines quite through the Books First The beginning strokes of every letter and then the next added and so on till the whole Letter is finished that the Child may know how and where each Letter is to be begun and made After that let there be several lines of small Letters and the like of Capitals and lastly Copies of Joyned-Hand all well writ or cut with the due strokes of a neat mixt hand which is now most in fashion easily learnt and best for general use Then let the Child with a good Pen and the best red Ink go over the Letters and make them red and so proceed to the whole Letters and then to the Joyning only at the first it will be necessary that the Father Tutor or some one that can write pretty well should show the Child how to hold his Pen and guide his hand for two or three weeks and not suffer him to run rudely and hastily over the Copy which is but wasting ●me and Paper and spoiling the the Childs hand it must be done heedfully and when he has made his Letter to observe what is amiss and mend it in the next till he can make all his Le●ters exactly and then and not before let him proceed to the Joined-hand Copies and when the Book is writ out provide another in the like manner This Writing over the Copies will by frequent use and cu●om bring his Hand to an habit of making his Letters without them in a short time For if you keep him to this practice two or three hours in a Day and make him