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BUTLER'S Spellers, Readers, Grammars,

KENTUCKY STANDARD SCHOOL SERIES.

A Revised Edition Butler's Practical Grammar
is now ready. Specimen copy for examination, 50 cents, the introduction price.
It is a good book made perfect.
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
Harrodsburg, Ky.

I pronounce it one of the best grammars of the English language.-T. U. Wells, Clinton College, Clinton, Ky.

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Southwestern Journal of Education.

FOR TEACHERS AND FRIENDS OF EDUCATION.

Vol. V.

SEPTEMBER, 1880.

FORMATION OF CHARACTER.

MARY R. ALLING.

No. I.

[ODERN thought has laid upon the teacher new responsibilities.
In former times he might be satisfied if he taught his pupils the
rudiments of knowledge contained in the few text-books used, and ad-
ministered with due severity the one punishment for all offenses. To-
day he may dismiss them from his conscience through no such simple
Not to teach a few facts, but to lead out the whole train of in-
tellectual powers; not to keep order by rod or ferule, but by awakened
interest in study and intelligent self-control-this is now the common
conception of a teacher's work.

means.

But this never resting nineteenth century does not stop here. Al-
ready it has forced our leaders to swear allegience to a still harder task
-the symmetrical development of character. Most of us but dimly

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