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Fundamental axioms

Learning – i:e: intellectual instruction considered in a mass
in regard to the time of commencement physical depravity, not usage should
be the guide.

The culture of the understanding can not commence
too early. (7) It is part of among the advantages of the proposed plan
that this branch of improvement may take place universally their blessings may be administered
and at an earlier period than even among in the abodes of
affluence. may be taught to In point of are capable natural capacity, children are capable of learning their letters a
considerable time before they can speak – Learning to speak
and learning to read may therefore keep pace with each other. So
may hearsay learning arithmetic: the signification of
cyphers if not as easily learnt as that of single letters
is as easily learnt as that of words. In such an establishment
arithmetic need never be taught but with reference
to actual practice: the real accounts of the House will afford
examples as useful as the any feigned ones that could be taken from
Books. The learning of the multiplication table – a task
heavy on the memory – might be has been facilitated by music.

These acquirements form the rudiments of all
other intellectual improvements, and happily are not neglected
any where. But here they may commence at
the earliest possible period in the instance of every individual:
whereas in private families of all classes they
are its experience delay in all manner of degrees from
the highest to the lowest. The causes of this delay are
prejudice – inattention – want of intelligence – improvident over-fondness
– but principally the want of those means and
of instruction which depend upon such the division of labour
as carried to a degree which the narrow extent of a private family does not admitt
of, but which would here be found in the proposed order of
things would have been take place in this instance as in so
many others.

For want of sufficient muscular strength, writing
can not take place till at an age before which the child
will have been already fit for various profit-yielding employments: but
reading and arithmetic, so far as numeration is concerned, may
be carried on at an earlier age period: and may fill up the using of
time, till profit-yielding occupations commence at from which time period it
may be confined to Sundays.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	149	Main Headings	poor law
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	notes heads
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	49963
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