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Mens sana in
corpore tano

Improvements

1 Tanto

Making the most
of their time Leaving
no part unemployed.

2. Mixing useful
corporal exercise
with intellectual.

3. Discarding useless
studies - however
prevalent:
by Giving Making the priority
of the several studies
in y as
the degree of intelligence
required
without regard to
practice

5. Teaching mathematical
propositions
(for the purposes
of mixed mathematics)
upon
trust, reserving
demonstration till
the reason is ripe
for it - Why not
then as well as
moral ones &c?

6. Setting for coping
among the most
useful things,
there least likely
otherwise to be remembered.

Incitements.

7. Motives. Giving
the principle of
Challenging every
extension it is susceptible
of.

8. For the multiplication
of classes
rising one above another
- with characteristic
symbols
abut their

&c So the principle
of reciprocal

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Latin
to be learnt from
Linnaus's Systema
Natura &
Philosophica Botanica

No Classes at
least for ordinary
Boys -

If any, exception
from all the principal
ones.

No Poets - even
in Exception - unless
possibly Horace

Greek -
If any - little
but the Grammar
for the sake of
Etymology-

I

f any - Lucian's
History of Alexander
the Imposter
Plutarch's Life
of Sartorius

10* Recreations - none
but what are subservient
either to pecuniary
profit or to instruction.

making
the indication of the
use go hand in hand
with the precept of the
art or science.

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French
From Voltaires
General History

La Voisier's Chemistry

Quere Foureroy
for the Natural
History

If Buffons only
for the Animals,
not for the
Theory of the Earth

To little Children
it might perhaps
be taaught from
such a book as
Berguin's Aim
des Enfans

—

Improvements
continued

13. Pushing the
principle of instruction
by playthings
utile dulcito
to the utmost

Ivory letters Gingerbread - Wooden
Geometrical figures.
Dissected Maps - lands

14. Verifying instructions
- Generalizating
Grey's Memoria
Technica.

What can be done
by Education, &
what not - Limits
of improvement

1. Arming against
vulgar sources of
positive unhappiness.

2. Giving capacities
for happiness by
forming tastes & means
of gratification.

3. Giving natural talents the utmost
chance of finding
their proper subject matters

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German A Book of Statistics Crills Annals of Chemistry after reading LaVoisier. Improvements continued 10. In language teaching, giving the convivial principle its utmost extension 11. In language teaching, teaching no book for the sake of the language only exclusive of the matter. If the language affords no matter worth teaching don't teach it. At the end of Improvements, or after each considerable improvement give the Historia Aetiologica shewing how it has happened that each improvement has not yet taken place. 12. In morality nothing exaggerated or impracticable discredits the whole and makes it unfit for use. —

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