Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Excerpt from The Kirografik Teecher: Adapted for Use as a Text Book in Common Schools, High Schools, Academies, and Colleges
The author has endeavored to supply a long felt need in England and America. The English speaking people have suffered patiently for generations, because of a barbarous orthography. The time has now arrived when the teachers, of both England and America, are ripe for changes which shall go to the bottom and reform our sys tem of spelling in our Common Schools, High Schools, Academies and Colleges. Tiro, the father of short-hand, who lived in the days of Cicero, did not live to see it introduced in the public schools; but after his death it was further improved by Vipsanius, Philargy rus, Aquilla, and Seneca the philosopher, and introduced into schools by the practical Romans, where for centuries it was taught as a branch of study. Can our people afford to be less practical? The success which has attended the introduction of Stenography into the primary schools of France, in teaching a phonetic orthogra phy and enunciation and in teaching deaf-mutes, has been remarkable. In England and America there has been marked success in the same direction wherever the attempt has been made. Experience has demonstrated that children can acquire the rudimentary elements of an English education in from one to two years less time, even where the clumsy expedient of diacritical marks are resorted to for teaching a phonetic orthography.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.