School managment Author:Joseph Landon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THREE LINES OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. In considering the training and growth of the child, it is usual to divide education into five branches... more », I. physical, 2. intellectual, 3. moral, 4. religious, and 5. aesthetic. It will, however, be sufficient for our present object to view the last three in conjunction, as the cultivation of the emotional nature. Though we may usefully group educational work for purposes of discussion, in practice the divisions, although broadly distinguished, intermingle and affect one another in various ways ; so that we cannot rightly regard them as definitely distinct and independent. Without some care for the health and even the comfort of the body, the intellect cannot be made to concentrate itself upon its work as it should do ; the attention is disturbed, the energy diminished, and the continuity of action often seriously interfered with. On the other hand, physical well-being has very frequently a moral significance. Conversely both the intellect and the morals exert a powerful reciprocal action upon the body. Many mental acts have a moral side. Morality without intelligence would be incomplete ; our conceptions of right and wrong would be of the haziest description, or well-nigh impossible ; we should not be able to give a reason for our actions,and we should never be brought to act from a sense of duty. The morals, again, affect the intellect to a large extent, and their influence is needed to induce us voluntarily to undergo the work, which is necessary to the complete control and development of the intellectual powers. ' Education,' writes Willm, ' should be religious that it may be more assuredly moral; moral to be correctly religious ; and intellectual for the sake alike of religion and morality. . . . Each sentiment will ...« less