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    Ciphers For the Little Folks A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon
    Ciphers For the Little Folks A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon
    Ciphers For the Little Folks A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon
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    Ciphers For the Little Folks A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon

    By Dorothy Crain

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Ciphers For the Little Folks A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon - Dorothy Crain

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      Title: Ciphers For the Little Folks

      A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon

      Author: Dorothy Crain

      Release Date: March 15, 2012 [EBook #39149]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CIPHERS FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive.)

      THE DOROTHY CRAIN SERIES

      Ciphers

      For the Little Folks

      A Method of Teaching

      The Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon

      Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban

      Designed to Stimulate Interest in Reading, Writing and Number Work,

      by Cultivating the Use of an Observant Eye

      With an

      Appendix on the Origin, History and Designing of the Alphabet

      By Helen Louise Ricketts

      RIVERBANK LABORATORIES

      EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

      Dorothy Crain, Director of Kindergarten

      GENEVA, ILLINOIS

      Copyright, 1916

      GEORGE FABYAN

      INTRODUCTION

      These lessons are presented as suggestions with the idea that the teacher or parent will adapt, lengthen, shorten, or remake, as the needs of the little folk demand. Their value will depend on the way in which they are brought before the children.

      The aim is not to impose on children adult knowledge and accomplishments, but to afford them experiences that on their own account appeal to them, and at the same time have educational value and significance.

      Children should have a great deal of handwork; they do their best thinking when they are planning something to do with their hands. Their attention is much more easily focused upon something they are doing with their hands than upon something which they hear or read. Building with the blocks, paper folding and cutting, painting and drawing, and what is known as constructive work, are all means of self-expression.

      An explanatory paragraph will accompany each lesson. In order that the workings of the Biliteral Cipher, from which these lessons were derived, may be more readily understood, a short explanation will follow for the guidance of the teacher or parent, to whom it is left to choose the best methods of explaining the Cipher to the children, step by step.

      The Biliteral Cipher devised by Francis Bacon and explained in detail in his Advancement of Learning (see Spedding’s English edition of Bacon’s Works, Vol. IV, pages 444-447) is based upon the mathematical fact that the transposition of two objects (blocks, letters, etc.) will yield 32 dissimilar combinations, of which only 24 would be necessary to represent all the letters in our alphabet (i and j, u and v being used

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