APPLES - AN OBJECT LESSON
ENGLISH APPLES
I wasn't sure whether to include this, but in the end thought it a curiosity which might interest a few people; "object lessons" were a staple of the primary school curriculum in Victorian England, and here's the way "The Apple" would have been taught in thousands of classrooms throughout the country:
LESSONS ON OBJECTS
As given to children between the ages of six and eight
in a Pestalozzian School at Cheam, Surrey, 1873 (22nd edition).
Published by Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, Fleet street, London.
AN APPLE
Parts:
The eye,
core,
pips,
peel,
pulp,
juice,
stalk,
surface,
inside,
outside
Qualities:
It is spherical,
bright,
odorous,
coloured,
opaque,
natural,
vegetable,
juicy,
hard,
nice,
solid,
pleasant
The eye
is dry,
brown,
shrivelled.
The pips are:
brown on the outside when ripe,
white in the inside,
pointed oval,
hard,
bright.
The core is
membranaceous,
stiff,
yellow,
hard,
semi-transparent
REMARKS ON WORDS
Spher-ical is derived from Sphere.
TEACHER. Give instances of similar terminations.
CHILDREN. Cylindr-ical, Crit-ical, Con-ical.
Odor-ous is derived from odor, scent.
TEACHER. Give instances of similar terminations.
CHILDREN. Nutrit-ous, Indigen-ous.
Veget-able is derived from veget-are, to grow as a plant.
TEACHER. Name other words derived from this.
CHILDREN. To Vegetate, Vegetation.
Juicy is derived from Juice.
TEACHER. Give some other instances in which the names of qualities are derived from those of substances in a similar manner.
CHILDREN. Stone, ston-y; Milk, milk-y, Water, water-y.
Semi-transparent is derived from semi, trans, through, and parens, ap-pear-ing.
TEACHER. What is the meaning if semi?
CHILDREN. Half.
