{"id":329,"date":"2012-09-03T23:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T04:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=329"},"modified":"2012-09-03T23:05:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T04:05:41","slug":"early-elementary-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/09\/03\/early-elementary-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Elementary Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One must lead the child to declensions and to conjugations at the same time as he is learning his letters.\u00a0 Because, from the fact that the same word changes case and gender, that the first syllables remain and that the latter\u00a0ones change, not hapharzardly, but according to rules, the teacher derives two advantages: the child learns without difficulty how to read and how to register in his memory that which he needs to retain and that which is necessary in order that the instructional edifice be solidly established.\u00a0 We have said that in your class you must lay the foundation for studies as on a rock; <strong>your class must be so to speak a nursery for the finest trees<\/strong>, which you&#8217;ll not see rooted in soil nor standing in gardens nor orchards, but at the bar and in the senate (and) the courts of kings, and bearing abundant fruits of wisdom.&#8221; John Sturm, &#8220;Johann Sturm to Abraham Feis, Teacher of the Tenth Class. (1565),&#8221; trans. Lewis W. Spitz and Barbara Sher Tinsley, <em>Johann Sturm on Education<\/em> (CPH: St Louis, 1995), p. 264.\u00a0 [Emphasis Added]<\/p>\n<p>In this letter Johann Sturm describes the first level of education in a sixteenth-century school.\u00a0 This level (tenth class)\u00a0would be approximately equivalent to modern first grade.\u00a0 Sturm instructs the teacher to simultaneously train the child with\u00a0Latin vocabulary\u00a0and the formation of nouns (declensions) and verbs\u00a0(conjugations).\u00a0 In this manner the child builds a solid foundation in his or her memory of the basic elements of Latin.\u00a0 Sturm also compared the teacher to\u00a0a gardener who tends to small trees which will grow up to have significant influence in\u00a0legal work (at the bar), political service, and teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One must lead the child to declensions and to conjugations at the same time as he is learning his letters.\u00a0 Because, from the fact that the same word changes case and gender, that the first syllables remain and that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/09\/03\/early-elementary-teaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-johann-sturm","category-renaissance","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}