The Reformed School, Part 24
Concerning the Means and Instruments w… are to be had in a readineſſe, and ordered for uſe, that theſe Tasks may thus be proſecuted on all hands.
THe things neceſſary to be made uſe of … bringing all this to paſſe, are 1. a co…nient Houſe fitted with rooms, wherein … Scholars may be at their exerciſes. 2. the ſc…laſticall Furniture, & dreſſing of thoſe roo… 3. the Books and other Implements, wh… the Uſhers and Scholars muſt have at ha….
The Houſe, where this courſe of educ… ſhould be intended, muſt not be within … City, but ſhould be near unto it, in a g… air, large and ſpacious; and as it were in … Countrey, with large gardens and orch… …ear the places of tillage and of paſturage, …hat the Countrey may afford unto the Scho…rs the aſpect and obſervation of all Natu…all things, wherein they are to be taught, and be City may afford them the ſight of all …rtificiall things; of all Trades and Manu…ctures, wherewith they are to be made ac…uainted.
The Rooms wherein the Scholars ſhould be … their exerciſes, ſhould be foure: Three leſſer …nes, for each Uſher and his peculiar Scholars …ne, and one large one; or father a Gallery …hich ſhould be for common Uſe unto all.
The Scholaſticall furniture and dreſſing …f theſe rooms ought to be this.
The large common room ought to be fur…ſhed with all manner of Mathematicall, Na…rall, Philoſophicall, Hiſtoricall, Medicinall, …ieroglyphicall and other ſort of pictures, …aps, globes, inſtruments, models, engines, …nd whatſoever is an object of ſenſe in refe…nce to any Art or Science, theſe things …e to be ſet in their order, according as …ey are ſubordinate unto ſeverall Sciences; …at at the times appointed, the Uſhers may …ade their Scholars into it; to receive the leſ…ns which they ſhall give them▪ upon the …cular inſpection of the Things, which ſhall …e ſhewed unto them.
The leſſer rooms each ought to be furniſhed with a high ſeat for the Uſher; that he m… overlook all his Scholars, and with twen… diſtinct places, ſo ordered for the Schol… to ſit or ſtand in; that their fac… may …e … towards him: and each in his place may ha… his own deck, to keep all his papers and oth… things to be uſed in good order. In each … thoſe rooms there ſhould be an iron forna… or ſtove to keep it warm in the winter.
The Books which the Scholars ſhall have … the School ſhall be none but ſuch as th… Uſher ſhall put in their hands. In the ſeco… Period of Inſtitution, they ſhall have a … books but their Latine, Greek and H…brew Janua's, and the Bible of the Old … New Teſtament in theſe Tongues, and i… their Mother-tongue. In the third Perio… beſides theſe books, they ſhall have fr… time to time, ſuch as their Uſher by the G…vernours direction ſhall furniſh them with… and none other; nor any longer then thinks fit.
The Inſtruments beſides pen, ink and …per, ſhall be a pen or ſtick with black lead▪ pen-knife, a pair of compaſſes, a ruler, ſ…ate; and ſome other implements which f… time to time ſhall be put in their hands, a… taught to make uſe of according to the …grees of their proficiency.