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OF THE TRANING VP OF YONG GENTLEMEN. OF PRIUATE AND PUBLIKE EDUCATION, WITH THEIR GENERALL GOODS AND ILLES. THAT THERE IS NO BETTER WAY FOR GENTLEMEN TO BE TRAINED BY IN ANY RES...

THE MEANES TO RESTRAINE THE OUERFLOWING MULTITUDE OF SCHOLERS. THE CAUSE WHY EUERIE ONE DESIRETH TO HAUE HIS CHILDE LEARNED, AND YET MUST YELDE OUER HIS OWNE DESIRE TO THE DISPO...

OF TEACHERS AND TRAINERS IN GENERALL, AND THAT THEY BE EITHER ELEMENTARIE, GRAMMATICALL, OR ACADEMICALL. OF THE ELEMENTARIE TEACHERS ABILITIE, AND ENTERTAIMENT. OF THE GRAMMER M...

THE PERORATION, WHERIN THE SUMME OF THE WHOLE BOOKE IS RECAPITULATED AND PROOFES VSED, THAT THIS ENTERPRISE WAS FIRST TO BE BEGON BY POSITIONS, AND THAT THESE BE THE MOST PROPER...

HOW TO CUT OF MOST INCONUENIENCES WHERWITH SCHOOLES AND SCHOLERS, MAISTERS AND PARENTES BE IN OUR SCHOOLING NOW MOST TROUBLED. WHEROF THERE BE TWO MEEANES, VNIFORMITIE IN TEACHI...

THAT YOUNG MAIDENS ARE TO BE SET TO LEARNING, WHICH IS PROUED, BY THE CUSTOME OF OUR COUNTREY, BY OUR DUETIE TOWARDES THEM, BY THEIR NATURALL ABILITIES, AND BY THE WORTHY EFFECT...

WHAT THINGES THEY BE, WHERIN CHILDREN ARE TO BE TRAINED, EARE THEY PASSE TO THE GRAMMAR. THAT PARENTES, AND MAISTERS OUGHT TO EXAMINE THE NATURALL ABILITIES IN THEIR CHILDREN, W...

WHAT TIME WEERE BEST FOR THE CHILD TO BEGIN TO LEARNE. WHAT MATTERS SOME OF THE BEST WRITERS HANDLE, EARE THEY DETERMINE THIS QUESTION. OF LETTES AND LIBERTIE WHERVNTO THE PAREN...

THAT CONFERENCE BETWENE THOSE WHICH HAUE INTEREST IN CHILDREN: CERTAINETIE OF DIRECTION IN PLACES WHERE CHILDREN VSE MOST: AND CONSTANCIE IN WELL KEEPING THAT, WHICH IS CERTAINE...

OF THE GENERALL PLACE, AND TIME OF EDUCATION. PUBLIKE PLACES, ELEMENTARIE, GRAMMATICALL, COLLEGIATE. OF BOURDING OF CHILDREN ABROAD FROM THEIR PARENTES HOUSES, AND WHETHER THAT...

AN ADUERTISEMENT TO THE TRAINING MAISTER. WHY BOTH THE TEACHING OF THE MINDE, AND THE TRAINING OF THE BODIE BE ASSIGNED TO THE SAME MAISTER. THE INCONUENIENCES WHICH ENSUE, WHER...

OF EXERCISES AND TRAINING THE BODY. HOW NECESSARIE A THING EXERCISE IS. WHAT HEALTH IS, AND HOW IT IS MAINTAINED: WHAT SICKNESSE IS, HOW IT COMMETH, AND HOW IT IS PREUENTED. WHA...

THAT BOTH YOUNG BOYES, AND YOUNG MAIDENS ARE TO BE PUT TO LEARNE. WHETHER ALL BOYES BE TO BE SET TO SCHOOLE. THAT TO MANY LEARNED BE TO BURDENOUS: TO FEW TO BARE: WITTES WELL SO...

Among those exercises which be vsed abroade, what one deserueth to be set before walking, in the order and place of traine: what one haue they more neede to know, which minde, t...

OF WHAT FORCE CIRCUNSTANCE IS IN MATTERS OF ACTION, AND HOW WARILY AUTHORITIES BE TO BE VSED, WHERE THE CONTEMPLATIUE REASON RECEIUES THE CHECK OF THE ACTIUE CIRCUNSTANCE, IF TH...

HOW LONG THE CHILDE IS TO CONTINUE IN THE ELEMENTARIE EAR HE PASSE TO THE TOUNGUES, AND GRAMMER. THE INCURABLE INFIRMITIES WHICH POSTING HAST WORKETH IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF STUD...

If _laughing_ had no more wherfore to be enrouled in the catalogue of exercises, then _weeping_ hath, they might both be crossed out. And yet as they be passions, that tende in...

The play at the _Ball_ seemeth compound, bycause it may be vsed, both within dores, and without. Wherof good writers haue deliuered vs thus much: that in the olde time there wer...

In the bodie which is to take good of exercise, there be three pointes to be considered: 1. for either it is _sickly_ hauing his operations tainted and weake: 2. or it is _healt...

Daunsing of it selfe declareth mine allowance, in that I name it among the good and healthfull exercises: which I must needes cleare from some offensiue notes, wherwith it is ch...

My purpose is to helpe the hole trade of teaching, euen from the very first foundation: that is, not only the Grammarian, and what shall follow afterward, but also the Elementar...

All they which vse exercises vse them either not so much as they should, and that doeth small good, or more then they should, and that doeth much harme, or so as they should, an...

Though all men can tell, what a singular benefit breathing is, whervnder the vse of our life is comprehended: yet they can best tell, which haue it most at commaundement. For as...

The manifest seruices which we receiue by our legges and feete, in _warre_ for glorie, to pursue or saue, in _game_ for pleasure to winne and weare, in _Physick_ for health to p...

The exercise of the voice which in Latin they name _vociferatio_, in Greek ἀναφωνησις, as them φωνασκόι which were the training maisters, in English maye be tearmed lowd speakin...

OF EXERCISE IN GENERALL AND WHAT IT IS. AND THAT IT IS ATHLETICALL FOR GAMES, MARTIALL FOR THE FIELDE, PHYSICALL FOR HEALTH, PRÆPARATIUE BEFORE, POSTPARATIUE AFTER THE STANDING...

Plan of this book 292 Author’s intention 293 Reason of his prolixity 294 His choice of subject 295 Advantage of ideal 296 Why girls’ training is treated of 297 Wishes 298

_Time_ is deuided into _accidentarie_ and _naturall_, and _naturall_ againe into _generall_ and _particular_. The _naturall time_ generally construed is ment by the spring, the...

The physicians seeme to commend shooting for the vse of health sufficiently, in that they make _Apollo_ and _Æsculapius_ the presidentes and protectors of _Archerie_, which both...

_Hvnting_ is a copious argument, for a poeticall humour to discours of, whether in verse, with _Homer_, or in prose, with _Heliodorus_. _Dian_ would be alleged, as so auoyding _...

_Leaping_ should seeme to be somewhat naturall, and chearfull, bycause at any pleasant or ioyefull newes, not onely the hart will leape for ioye, but also the body it selfe will...

In the old time, when they would point at a fellow, in whom there was nothing to be made account of, they were wont to saye, he neither knoweth letter on the booke, nor yet how...

The vse of the weapon is allowed for an exercise, and may stand vs at this daie now liuing, and our posteritie in great stede, as wel as it did those which went before vs. Who v...

If any wilbe so wilful as to denie _Riding_ to be an exercise and that a great one, and fittest also for greatest personages, set him either vpon a trotting iade to iounce him t...

He that will deny the Top to be an exercise, indifferently capable of all distinctions in stirring, the verie boyes will beate him, and scourge him to, if they light on him abou...

For wrastling as it is olde and was accounted cunning sometimes, so now both by Physicians in arte, and by our countreymen in vse, it seemeth not to be much set by, being contem...

Reading is a thing so familiarly knowne, as there needeth no great proofe, that it exerciseth the voice, and therwith all the health, wherof the Physicians admit two kindes, int...

_Galene_ in the second booke of his preseruatiue to health knitteth vp three great thinges in verie few wordes, that who so can handle the exercises in due _maner_, with the _ap...

It were to much to wishe, that _Musick_ were the most healthy exercise, as it is the most pleasaunt profession, bycause either to much delite would drowne men in it alone, or to...

I will not here runne thorough all the kindes of exercises that be named either by _Galene_ or any other writer, wherof many be discontinued, many be yet in vse, but out of the...

That the place, wherein any thing is done, is of great force to the well or ill performing therof, and specially in natural executions, there can be no better profe, then that w...

Bycause the speciall marke wherat I shoote, is to bring the minde forward to his best, by those meanes which I take to be best, wherin I must of force continue verie long, as in...

There be six circumstances, which leade and direct all exercises, and are carefully to be considered of, by the trayning maister. For either the missing or mistaking of any one...

Talking in Latin _Sermo_, as it is accounted an exercise for succouring some partes, so both for eagernesse, and heat, in the nature of speeche, though not of passion, it comes...

The _nature_ of the exercise which we vse, either to recouer health and strength, if they be feebled: or to preserue them, that they feeble not, as it is verie forcible to worke...

Need of train in women and in gentlemen 183 Public training best for gentlemen. Private 184 Private education and public 185 Disadvantages of private training 186 The same 187 T...

All parents would have children learned 142 The Country must decide 143 Necessity a good restraint 144 Number of scholars kept down by law 145 Private opinion must yield to publ...

Same trainer for mind and body 232 Elementary master most important 233 Pay elementary master highest 234 Grammar master and his pay 235 Good masters stopt by bad pay 236 Teache...

Schoolmasters’ troubles. Melanchthon 262 Want of uniformity 263 Proposal of common scheme 264 Able and ordinary teachers 265 Gains from uniformity 266 Changing schools. The comm...

Discerning of ingenerate abilities 25 Measure of ripeness in soul or body 26 Three Powers: Perception, Memory, Judgment 27 Morals the care of Parents and Teachers 28 Instruction...

Teaching of girls 166 Four reasons. First, English custom 167 Second, Our duty 168 Physical education of girls 169 Third, Girls’ natural towardness 170 Fourth, Good results accr...

Training needed for both body and mind 40 Bodily exercise needed by student 41 Exercise and health 42 What is health and sickness? 43 Dangers to health of the body 44 Use of exe...

Boys and girls. Boys first 133 Train tests wit. Is school for all? 134 Danger from too many learned 135 This danger universally admitted 136 Evils from too few learned. Choice 1...

The Ideal and the Possible 15 What Parents want 16 At what age should schooling begin? 17 Circumstances limit choice 18 Against forcing young wits 19 Powers of mind and body 20...

Three stages of school education 222 School building: 1, superior; 2, primary 223 3, Secondary. Buildings and hours 224 Boarding schools, pro and con 225 Grammar schools in subu...

Confer with parents 281 Conference with neighbours 282 Teachers and neighbours 283 Teachers and parents. Xenophon 284 Conference of teachers 285 The same. Certainty in direction...

Same trainer for body and mind 124 The Divine and the Physician 125 Against specialising 126 Trainer to magnify his office 127 Praise of health. Trainer’s knowledge 128 Physicia...

Walking commonest and best for health 82 Kinds of Walking 83 Kinds of Walking and their effects 84 Walking up and down hill, &c. 86 Choice of place: by the sea, &c. 87 Times of...

Mistake of neglecting Circumstance 8 Consideration of Circumstance 9 The Realm of Circumstance 10 Authority affected by Circumstance 11 Use of previous writers 12 Right Reason t...