Mirror of Literature,  10 (1827), 172–73.

The Tucumanese Schoolmaster

Anon

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue

Publications extracted:

Andrews 1827

Subjects:

Phrenology, Education, Mathematics


    Describes a village teacher with his pupils: 'He was reading a lecture on the heads of the scholars—a phrenological dissertation, if one might judge from its effects, with a wand long enough to bump the caput of the most remote offender' (172).



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