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WHEN Dr. Johnson kept school at Lichfield in 1736 he drew up a “Scheme for the Classes of a Grammar School,” which his biographer, Boswell, inserted in the pages of the famous “Life” with the remark that “Johnson, well knew the most proper course to be pursued in the instruction of youth.” The scheme consisted of Latin accidence, translation, and syntax in the lower plasses, with the addition of Greek in the third class. No other subject was mentioned. For a hundred years or more this was broadly the basis of the system adopted throughout English grammar schools, with the addition, of a little arithmetic, geography, and history.
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Literature and Science in Education . Nature 98, 432–433 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/098432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098432a0