Educating, Chapter 4

Notes for Chapter 4 (see page images at the Internet Archive)

p. 39 "Comenius, Spencer, and Froebel, (...) Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Paul Richter"

Comenius, educational reformer known for the Orbis Pictus, which taught Latin through pictures.

Herbert Spencer

Friedrich Froebel, German inventor of the Kindergarten.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, best known for Emile.

Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825), German Romantic writer, also known as "Jean Paul."  His most famous educational work was Levana: Or, The Doctrine of Education.

p. 44 "Susannah Wesley taught her children at home"

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pp. 44-5 "the Jews, who in far-off times had no public educational system"

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p. 46 "Lincoln's mother, uneducated"

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"the Chancellor of Oxford University declared"

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, known at the time as "Lord Curzon."   Link to news clipping covering his tribute to Lincoln.

"Greeley"

Horace Greeley (1811-1872), American newspaper editor, politician, and would-be radical social reformer.  Left school at age 14, after declining a scholarship to Philips Exeter Academy.

p. 53 "Heaven is not reached at a single bound"

From a poem by the American writer Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)

"genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"

Proverbial saying, sometimes attributed to Dr. Johnson or Thomas Carlyle

"he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city"

Proverbs 16:32

p. 57 "He that toucheth pitch will be defiled"

Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 13:1

"Pope's 'Universal Prayer'"

"The Universal Prayer," a poem by Alexander Pope.  First published in 1738.

"Lead, Kindly Light"

Hymn based on a poem by John Henry Newman, written in 1833.

"Voltaire, Gibbon and Ingersoll"

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p. 58 "the first chapter of Genesis"

Genesis 1, Latin Vulgate with Douay-Rheims English translation side by side