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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27

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The total unacquaintance with the science of pedagogic, and with all that has been written about it, in which the intending schoolmaster is, in England, suffered to remain, has, I am convinced, injurious effects both on our schoolmasters and on our schools.—Mr. Matthew Arnold.

To those who maintain that schoolmastering wants no theory, and can have no science, the true reply is this: The old system of use and wont—the "blind hands" system, as we may call it—has broken down. A theory we must have, and if it turns out that we can have no science, this will be a very bad business for everybody. Those who now oppose themselves to scientific inquiry, are no more to be accounted of than so many Mrs. Partingtons trying to sweep back the Atlantic.—Rev. Mr. Quick in opening lecture of Cambridge Course for Teachers.