RESUME OF LECTURES ON EDUCATION, DELIVERED BY C. C. HOWARD, ESQ, F.R.G.S., AT THE NORMAL SCHOOL, CHRISTCHURCH.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 208, 16 July 1878, Page 2

RESUME OF LECTURES ON EDUCATION, DELIVERED BY C. C. HOWARD, ESQ, F.R.G.S., AT THE NORMAL SCHOOL, CHRISTCHURCH.

TmuD Cocbse—Genesal SiSrtect : Great TKACHEBB AMD SYSTKM3 OP EDUCATION.

Lecture It-rSubjsct—-Education in Eng- , "land prior to the Conquest Affrqd .the Great, King and Schoolmaster. ' '

The lecturer commenced by remarking that the present was one of personal interest It embraced the dawn of the intellectual era of England, and, though but the dfty-of small things, it was the period when'the/seed" was sown from "whence has. sprung, the present gigantic intellectual tree. It forms as it were a chain linking the ancient with the modern tiHies.j j The let-turer then ; dwelt at some length'upon the influence'of the 'Phoenician traders j the/, earjyj Britons, and the effect of their "6ivi)ized nabiW upon the inhabitants , whom ib'ey traded with for tin, and he felt that indirectly they greatly developed ihe educatioji.' -of the Britons, by their visits*, The early Britons had previously sfadie'd 'the 1 Book of Nature and< had"! pianted 'by. their observations. The .Briton^/w,e|e not .described as_' barbarous" by j'alius Caisarin the information ' :he=hadifHrnisbed Tespeloiirigi tljeir, system of education, m.tlie schools of the. flruids. Students remained *ih J f these 'schbb'ls' 20 years leisurely studying philosophy, astro;rtcffly, medicirjej j-and- and t practising devotion" and reverence for authority. The Romahs f ■- ttiel Bh-iiids. with a ; superior ijind-of trained, in schools of' .military discipline" of' a'"; vdry severe 'kind,' and afterwards,•.trahsplahlted.i the complete educational system of their own pquntry, into Britain. The pupils were first taught by/eto-arid then r by love?.', "The Romans were never popular, because opposed to previous methods of teaching, and hence were compelled to be severe. Famous.scb-oolsrandv monasteries -existed in Britain, according to Bede, even in Roman times, the two most famous being;• at Bangor : and ' lona. ':■ Bede, says', that the school at Bangor contained seven divisions, .each of which had at least 300 pupils. Dir Pilulet, ; on ' M iMonks and; Mendicant Friars," Bays-the.Celtic, schnols were d,istingnislied by being more Oriental, and the students leading a more contemplative life. The Influence of -lona and the Irish ■ schools was-; very; gmatil xMoro than 100 schools were, planned by Irish Missionaries from'the schools estabHshedby" St;. ! In 597 the mission of .Augustine: to reevangelise, the districts where the Gospel hMibeeh : opt by the \\m the education of jthe .cbuntyy. The establishnient of $ie order of Benedictine Monks , and the erection of Monasteries in CanteriPtX b T W ."-Benedictine ,princiciples, were itifluentiar for good. ' Nest came Caeamoii,!tlie'earliest poet, who had a remarkable dream, and whose work laid the foundation,ot ( the,scbpols of Wearniouth' arid f Jdrr6w, ; * 'Mr Howard { nest reviewed the life of the venerable Bede r the exemplary schoolmaster • with his 600; pupils, showing how he jexpressed his love of his work, and took pains tp qualify himself for his duties, until he raised himself to the first rank among English theologians and scholars. The success of his workwaa proved by the fame of his Monastery ir* after times. (To be continued*}