Lecture on the necessity of the study of physiology : delivered before the American Institute of Instruction at Hartford, August 22, 1845 / by Edward Jarvis.

  • Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884.
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1845
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    as to the special preparatory means, by which these are to be brought about. Yet all agree as to the first step. A child must first learn to read, and thus obtain the key to all other knowledge. Beyond this step, every other is a questionable one ; not so much whether it should be taken at all, as whether it should be taken sooner or later. Which shall be first taken? Shall the child step first into arithmetic, grammar, geography, or writing ? Or, if so be, time and opportunity will permit only one of these studies to be pursued, aud all the rest neglect- ed, shall the boy now, and the man hereafter, be a writer, a geographer, a grammarian, an arithmetician, a philosopher, an astronomer, a rhetorician, a logician, a naturalist, or a physiologist. Every one of these subjects of study is useful. Each one may be wanted in the course of life; no boy's education is full and complete without them, nor is he ready-armed and equipped for the chances and the responsibilities of manhood, without under- standing each and all of them. But they are- not all equally necessary. Man can live, he can perform the duties, and bear the burdens of life, better without some, than he can without ofliers. Writing seems the second article in education ; reading is the first necessity, but writing seems the second. First, to learn for ourselves, second, to com- municate to others that which we have learned; this is the general, perhaps the natural crder.