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Updated: May 8, 2025
So many of our statesmen have acquired a merely kindergarten knowledge of the science, that we have had many object-lessons of the disadvantages of a merely elementary knowledge of the subject. To come right down to it, I am a great admirer of Henry. At any rate, he had the courage of his heart-convictions." "You really surprise me," tapped Boswell.
The after fate of the Sadlier-Keogh gang including the suicide of John Sadlier and the scarcely less wretched end of Keogh have ever since been terrible object-lessons to the Irish people. In his later years I enjoyed the friendship of one of the most distinguished of the Tenant Right leaders, who had also played a prominent and honourable part in the Repeal and Young Ireland movements.
It was a common enough story on the wharf, and he had heard it before without paying much attention, but now he glanced at the slight figure beside him, who evidently required as many object-lessons as could be given and decided that here lay the opportunity for giving Lesson No. 2. "Pay O'Donnell and sack him," he commanded. "Very good, sir," said the ganger, moving away.
Father Le Jeune tells us that "such holy pictures are most useful object-lessons for the Indians." On one occasion he made a special request for "three, four, or five devils, tormenting a soul with a variety of punishments one using fire, another serpents, and another pincers."
In the days when teachers argued about the differences between Object-lessons and Nature-lessons, one point insisted upon was that the Nature-lesson far surpassed the Object-lesson because it dealt with life. We have learned now that we should as much as we can surround our children with life and growth.
If the Olympia, Isthmia, or Panathenaea were only on now, those object-lessons might have been enough to convince you that our keenness is not thrown away.
The methods throughout should be objective, with copious illustrations by way of object-lessons, apparatus, charts, pictures, diagrams, and lectures, far less book work and recitation, only a limited amount of room study, the function of examination reduced to a minimum, and everything as suggestive and germinal as possible.
Human nature appears in a more pictorial guise by lamplight, after the day's work is over. The groups at the street corners, the glittering display in the watchmaker's windows, the carriages flashing by and disappearing in the darkness, the mysterious errands of foot-passengers, all served as object-lessons for this student of his own kind.
The remaining nine curtains were devoted to outline maps of the world, and to illustrated object-lessons in the most important and interesting departments of nature.
But he must not be given too many object-lessons or he will lose more than he will gain a something which might almost be described as a sense of individual responsibility. That is to say, responsibility to the human master who delegates his power to him.
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