Chapter 1

INTEREST IN TEACHING. Source of enjoyment in teaching.--The boy and the steam-engine.--His contrivance.--His pleasure, and the source of it.--Firing at the mark.--Plan of clearing the galleries in the British House of Commons.--Pleasure of experimenting, and exercising intellectual and moral power.--The indifferent and inactive teacher.--His subsequent experiments; means of awakening interest.--Offenses of pupils. --Different ways of regarding them.

Teaching really attended with peculiar trials and difficulties.--1. Moral responsibility for the conduct of pupils.--2. Multiplicity of the objects of attention.