Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The share which I had in the political struggles of the last part of the nineteenth century put my early convictions to a severe test. I was a revolutionary in the cause of justice; I was convinced that liberty, equality, and fraternity were the legitimate fruit to be expected...
The share which I had in the political struggles of the last part of the nineteenth century put my early convictions to a severe test. I was a revolutionary in the cause of just...
2. CHAPTER II.Among my pupils was a certain Mlle. Meunier, a wealthy old lady with no dependents, who was fond of travel, and studied Spanish with the object of visiting my country. She was a...
3. CHAPTER III.Once I was in possession of the means of attaining my object, I determined to put my hand to the task without delay. [2] It was now time to give a precise shape to the vague asp...
4. CHAPTER IV.The time had come to think of the inauguration of the Modern School. Some time previously I had invited a number of gentlemen of great distinction and of progressive sentiments...
5. CHAPTER V.The most important point in our programme of rational education, in view of the intellectual condition of the country, and the feature which was most likely to shock current pre...
6. CHAPTER VI.There must be a co-education of the different social classes as well as of the two sexes. I might have founded a school giving lessons gratuitously; but a school for poor childr...
7. CHAPTER VII.In regard to hygiene we are, in Spain, dominated by the abominable ideas of the Catholic Church. Saint Aloysius and Saint Benedict J. Labré are not the only, or the most charact...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The choice of teachers was another point of great difficulty. The tracing of a programme of rational instruction once accomplished, it remained to choose teachers who were compe...
9. CHAPTER IX.There are two ways open to those who seek to reform the education of children. They may seek to transform the school by studying the child and proving scientifically that the ac...
10. CHAPTER X.Rational education is, above all things, a means of defence against error and ignorance. To ignore truth and accept absurdities is, unhappily, a common feature in our social ord...
11. CHAPTER XI.In setting out to establish a rational school for the purpose of preparing children for their entry into the free solidarity of humanity, the first problem that confronted us wa...
12. CHAPTER XII.The Modern School did not confine itself to the instruction of children. Without for a moment sacrificing its predominant character and its chief object, it also undertook the i...
13. CHAPTER XIII.At the beginning of the second scholastic year I once more drew up a programme. Let us, I said, confirm our earlier programme; vindicated by results, approved in theory and prac...
14. CHAPTER XIV.To promote the progressive evolution of childhood by avoiding all anachronistic practices, which are merely obstacles placed by the past to any real advance towards the future,...
15. CHAPTER XV.In the Bulletin of September 30, 1903, we published the work of the pupils in the various classes of the Modern School, which had been read on the closing day of the second scho...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The Modern School needed and found its organ in the Press. The political and ordinary press, which at one time favoured us and at another time denounced us as dangerous, cannot...
17. CHAPTER XVII.I have reached the culmination of my life and my work. My enemies, who are all the reactionaries in the world, represented by the reactionaries of Barcelona and of Spain, believ...