Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... SYSTEM OF EDUCATION ADVOCATED BY FRANKLIN The sources in which are found in the most finished form Franklin's recommendations for the organization of education are: The Rules His Writings governing the Junto; Proposals relaton ing to the Education of Youth in Education. Pennsylvania; Sketch of an English School; Observations concerning the Intentions of the Original Founders of the Philadelphia Academy. Other valuable ideas and explanations are found in minor treatises and in letters to friends. Franklin, being himself self-educated, advocated a system whereby each individual could so utilize the sources and forces about him that in so doing he would become learned System f of Education and useful. It was just the system advocated Dy which he had educated himself, by him. He believed that a man by his own efforts could reach perfection in almost any art. This we have set forth in the discussion of his plan for attaining to moral perfection. His altruism led him to give to others whatever he had found useful to himself, and his utilitarianism led him to seek from others what could be made of use to himself. This idea took shape in the Junto,1 a literary and debating club organized by him when he was twenty-two years old, for the purpose of applying his principles of self-education in a cooperative way. The importance of mutual aid was strongly Literaryand emphasized in the rules governing the Debating club. Every member was required to Societypropose queries for discussion, and periodically j to produce and read an essay of his own writing j upon some subject of interest to him. The de-' bates were conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, and members were prohibited, by small pecuniary penalties, from indulging in offensive...
