DICKENS AS AN EDUCATOR.
By JAMES I. HUGHES, Inspector of Schools, Toronto. Vol. 49. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.50.
ADOPTED BY SEVERAL STATE TEACHERS' READING CIRCLES.
All teachers have read Dickens's novels with pleasure. Probably few, however
have presumably thought definitely of him as a great educational reformer. But
Inspector Hughes demonstrates that such is his just title. William T. Harris says
of "Dickens as an Educator": "This book is sufficient to establish the claim for
Dickens as an educational reformer. He has done more than any one else to
secure for the child considerate treatment of his tender age. Dickens stands apart
and alone as one of the most potent influences of social reform in the nineteenth
century, and therefore deserves to be read and studied by all who have to do with
schools, and by all parents everywhere in our day and generation." Professor
Hughes asserts that "Dickens was the most profound exponent of the
kindergarten and the most comprehensive student of childhood that England has
yet produced." The book brings into connected form, under proper headings, the
educational principles of this most sympathetic friend of children.
"Mr. James L. Hughes has just published a book that will rank as one of the
finest appreciations of Dickens ever written."—Colorado School Journal.
"Mr. Hughes has brought together in an interesting and most effective manner
the chief teachings of Dickens on educational subjects. His extracts make the
reader feel again the reality of Dickens's descriptions and the power of the
appeal that he made for a saner, kindlier, more inspiring pedagogy, and thus
became, through his immense vogue, one of the chief instrumentalities working
for the new education."—Wisconsin Journal of Education.