The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.17
The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.17
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c5.s17.17
16. The economy with which children are taught to write in the native schools, and the system by which the more advanced scholars are caused to teach the less advanced and at the same time to confirm their own knowledge is certainly admirable, and well deserved the imitation it has received in England. The chief defects in the native schools are the nature of the books and learning taught and the want of competent masters.