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Excerpt from The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice The object of this book is to present an account of the development of the teaching in the English Grammar Schools from the time of the Invention of Printing up to 1660. It is a history of the practice of the schools, of their curricula, and of the differentiated subjects of instruction, in distinction from the history of the theories of educational reformers as to what ought to be taught, and how existing methods might be improved. The basis of the work is therefore bibliographical. It has been impossible, within the space at disposal, to include a statement of all the bibliographical detail, on which the generalisations are based, but, throughout, the attempt has been made to describe really representative documents and school text-books. The study of English educational history has not hitherto included much consideration of the old school text-books used in the 16th and 17th centuries. Yet this seems to be the safest way of securing a sound basis for the study of the school practice of the times. It will be evident how much use has been made of the Ludus Literarius (1612 and 1627) of John Brinsley and the New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching School of Charles Hoole (1660).This has been the more necessary because as yet there are no reprints of those outstanding historical documents of 17th century school work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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