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h grave duties, on the proper discharge of wh

ny evils to be eradicated had their stronghold in the mode in which education had been conducted, and soon after the commencem

e not fitted, and which they, indeed, often loathed; the really valuable tendencies of these men, bent in an

, the germs of the imperfections and crimes of the man, detected and eradicated in the child; whilst valuable q

pied with pursuits for which nature and education had fitted them; whilst the power and works of men of genius would be many times increased and

ected if the first step to so

of the characters of children,-their qualifications and natural tendencies physical or m

nd phlegmatic; the boy of genius or talent, as the dullard; the one who loved, as he who disliked, or had a tendency to dislike, study; the weakly, as the strong. They were all driven together

miliated and discouraged, although with care the deficient quality could have been supplied. The want of this perhaps would make the boy a recruit to the r

sequences of all

n became irksome, and he was expected to become moral and religious. I saw that precepts were of little use unless th

l with bad habits, and vices so marked and developed, that even the exertions of the most s

ive-it may be said unerring-means to search ou

mind and heart, their sole occupation being to discover the qualities, tendencies, and incipient faults of children, and act accordingly; to dive, as it were, into the

e distinct from the masters, called "Zicche," or fathers of

ed for searching out, discriminating and correcting faults of character, interpreting the real qualities that na

e united in one master, there would be many objecti

will see hereafter, I was not content to wait till a disease, whether of the mind or body, had developed itself, spreading contagious poison

each child according to his temperament and the circumstances in which he may be placed. Faults and qualities are often of a

s are not unfrequently born from the very richness and exuberance of the soil, whilst many a dark and seemingl

emand great-almost constant-atte

f detecting or tracing their real cause, and suggesting the remedy, the character-diver is often obliged to enter into terms of intimacy with the children, particularly those of tender age,

treatment than those of maturer age. The defects of the young, like inci