The Infant System For Developing The Intellectual And Moral Pow

_Days and scenes of childhood--Parental care--Power of early impressions--School experience--Commencements in business--Sunday school teaching and its results--Experiment on a l...

_Teachers of theft--Children the dupes of the profligate--An effort at detection--Afflicting cases of early depravity--Progress of a young delinquent--Children employed in theft...

_Degraded condition of parents--Dreadful effects of drunkenness--Neglect of children inevitable and wilful--The tutorship of wicked companions--Tricks of pantomines injurious--M...

_Means long in operation important--Prisons awfully corrupting--Deplorable condition of those released from jail--Education of the infant poor--Its beneficial results--Cases of...

_Moral treatment--Importance of exercise--Play-ground indispensable--The education of nature and human education should be joined--Mental development--Children should think for...

_Teachers should practice what they teach--Necessity of patience--Mere automatons will not do for infant teachers--Disadvantage of using excessive restraint--A master and mistre...

_Classification--Getting the children into order--Language--Lessons on objects--Rules to be observed by parents--Daily routine of instruction--Opening prayer and hymn--Object or...

_Original intention of the gallery--What lessons are adapted for it--Its misapplication--Selection of teachers--Observations--Gallery lessons--on a feather--a spider--a piece of...

_Necessity of some punishment--Rewards to monitors--Trial by jury--Illustrative case--Necessity of firmness--Anecdotes--Playing the truant--Its evils--Means for prevention--Devi...

_Days and scenes of childhood--Parental care--Power of early impressions--School experience--Commencement in business--Sunday-school teaching and its results--Experiment on a la...

_Teachers of theft--Children the dupes of the profligate--An effort at detection--Affecting cases of early depravity--Progress of a young delinquent--Children employed in theft...

_Degraded condition of parents--Dreadful effects of drunkenness--Neglect of children inevitable and wilful--The tutorship of wicked companions--Tricks of pantomimes injurious--M...

_Means long in operation important--Prisons awfully corrupting--Deplorable condition of those released from jail--Education of the infant poor--Its beneficial results--Cases of...

_Moral treatment--Importance of exercise--Play-ground indispensable--The education of nature and human education should be joined--Mental development, children should think for...

I shall now lay before my readers an account of the things necessary for the establishment of an infant school; previously to presenting them with the detail of the plan to be p...

_Teachers should practice what they teach--Necessity of patience--Mere automatons will not do for infant teachers--Disadvantage of using excessive restraint--A master and mistre...

_Classification--Getting the children into order--Language--Lessons on objects--Rules to be observed by parents--Daily routine of instruction--Opening prayer and hymn--Object or...

_Original intention of the gallery--What lessons are adapted for it--Its misapplication--Selection of teachers--Observations--Gallery lessons an a feather--A spider--A piece of...

_Necessity of some punishment--Rewards to Monitors--Trial by Jury--Illustrative case--Necessity of firmness--Anecdotes--Playing the truant--Its evils--Means for prevention--Devi...

"Without things, words, accumulated by misery in the memory, had far better die than drag out a miserable existence in the dark. Without words, theirs stay and support, things u...

"In arithmetic, as in every other branch of education, the principal object should be to preserve the understanding from implicit belief, to invigorate its powers, and to induce...

Among the novel features of the Infant School System, that of geometrical lessons is the most peculiar. How it happened that a mode of instruction so evidently calculated for th...

Geography is to children a delightful study. We give some idea of it at an early period in infant schools, by singing, "London is the capital, the capital, the capital, London i...

"The parents of Dr. Doddridge brought him up in the early knowledge of religion. Before he could read, his mother taught him the histories of the Old and New Testament, by the a...

As I have before said that it is our object to teach the children from objects in preference to books, I will mention a method we adopt for the accomplishment of this purpose. I...

As an Infant School may be regarded in the light of a combination of the school and nursery, the _art of pleasing_, forms a prominent part in the system; and as little children...

Music has been found a most important means of _mental_ and _moral_ improvement. Its application took place from my finding a great difficulty in teaching some children, especia...

"A few months ago, Mr. ---- gave his little daughter, H----, a child of five years old, her first lesson in English Grammar; but no alarming book of grammar was produced on the...

All persons acquainted with children are aware of the torpor of some minds, and of the occasional apathy of others, and to this it is necessary to provide some counteraction. Th...

* * * * * "Is it then fitting that one soul should pine For want of culture in this favour'd land? That spirits of capacity divine Perish, like seeds upon the desert sand? That...

"'Tis on his mother's bosom the babe learns his first lessons; from her smile he catches the glow of affection; and by her frown, or her gentle sighs he persuaded to give up wha...