Education : its principles and practice / as developed by George Combe ; collated and edited by William Jolly.

George Combe

Date:: 1879

Credit: Education : its principles and practice / as developed by George Combe ; collated and edited by William Jolly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$counted a blockhead at home his mental organs, 442 457- his education, 457; his works xk-' one of the first to write on Phvsi-' ology for schools, xxxviii, 103 ; his works on Physiology recommended, with Ins brother, 134 : his advo- • V on Sympathy, 328: his Prim 103 364, 365, 459 ; Management of Infancy, 104, 406, 425 • his memory of names, 467 : his « Intro- ductmn of Eeligion into Common Sfig* f56?' 580; quoted, 6?1* Life of, xix, 104, 442, 458 Combe, George, his birth, xvii; home disczphne, 402, 125 ; early'educa- tion, 456, 460, 354 ; his relig ouS ducation, 127; learning to K 40b, 462 , learning geography, 456 • learning mathematics, 457; learn-' mg English, 461; his defective blockhead, 442 ; his early mental struggles, 111; education in Hi™ School, 398, 404,126;hisphvsL&al S01?11',3?? ; llisTuneand Time «t)8 ; his Latin verse-making 468 • his early association with working classes, 501; at Edinburgh Univei? sity, 443, 126 ; his tendency to mental studies, xvii: his earlier wr tlngSi xv hig ear] education, xvii; founds the Phreno- logical Society of Edinburgh, xvii • his first work on education, x3i ' becomes a candidate for Chair of Logic hi Edinburgh, xvih; his tes- timonials then, xviii; offered a Oiiair, xvm ; marries Cecilia Sid- dons, 332 ; retires from business xvm; visits America, xviii; his work there, xviii; his account of it, xviu xxvii; travels much on the Continent, xviii, 505 ; his con- nection with the Phrenological Journal, xvm, xix ; list of his edu- cational writings, xix, xxv-xxvii, inn; writes the life of Dr Andrew Combe xix; his part in the anti- classical contest of the century, xix, lix ; tides to improve the Edin- burgh High School, xx; his con- nection with Infant schools, xx • lectures on education throughout the country, xx : receives his first 741 of tCl '!/■' Moral Government of the work! from Spurzheim, 124; early history in search of the Punches of this Government, 125 tv,K US nurseiy experiences of tins government, 125; his school ami college experiences of same, 1M , his religious education in re Ss fn V5J ^theological studies in relation to it 128?).w .scientific studies in relation \o \t, ^9 , its true principles begin to dawn in.commerce an'd population 130; Bishop Butler sheds some Jght on 1,132 ; its central principle discovered by him, 132 : accused of nfidehty 158; his interest in broader theology, 166 ; his advo- cacy ot Kehgious education, 167- propounds the sacredness of science,' 168 ; teaches it in Williams' School 416 ; proves the supremacy of moral law, 178 ; one of the earliest advo- cates of teaching Social Science, xx^ 96 ; founds the Secular school in Edinburgh, xxii, 201: his connec- tion with Glasgoweducational movel ments, xxiv 224; with Lovett, ^25 ; with Manchester educational movements, xxiv, 239 : becomes a Governor in John Watson's Institu- tion, Edinburgh, 362 ; his efforts in lavour of Physiology, 98, 107, 362 ; improves Watson's Institution, £63;. lessons given by him on 1 hysiology Phrenology, and Social Science 474-488 ; one of the foun- ders of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, xxi : one of the greatest advocates of Secular education xxi, xxni 586 ; his use of the term . Secular, lxxi,lxxii,718; his action in favour of Secular education, xxi \xiv ; of National education, xxi' S«U ;Cn*itS Mr Bastard in Doraet, i Me ' 0n Popular lectures, ix, bib ; one of the earliest to give them, lx ; his advocacy of Eeal edu- cation, xix, xxxvi, xxxviii; fur- nishes the basis of the present Na- tional system, 586 ; examines and describes the educational system of Zurich, 624 : his advocacy of Nor- mal ' schools, 649; of universal popular education, lv ; of improving the range of study in schools lix : one of the earlier reformers ol the process of education, lvii • his$