THAT PART OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION WHICH
TREATS OF THE NATURE OF THE SEVERAL BRANCHES

OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE METHODS OF TEACHING
THEM ACCORDING TO THAT NATURE.

BY

JAMES PYLE WICKERSHAM, A.M.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, MILLERSVILLE,
PENNSYLVANIA; AND AUTHOR OF "SCHOOL ECONOMY."

"The method of nature is the archetype of all methods."-MARCEL.
"Man cannot propose a higher and holier object for his study, than education,
and all that appertains to education."-Couз

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1871.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, h

JAMES PYLE WICKERSHAM,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

ATORIMMIM

As a Tribute of Respect

the

To the men and women now constituting the Teachers' Profession in America, characterized as they are by learning, worth, and devotion to a work among the most noble that human effort ever aspired to accomplish right education of the whole people of the nation—who for their heavy labors receive small recompense save the con

sciousness of

doing good,

The Author,

Whose desire it has been to be worthy of a place as a co-worker among them, whose hope it is to aid in elevating and dignifying the Fro-" fession to which he and they belong,

and whose reward it will be to

have secured their approval

of his work, bogs leave

to dedicate this

book.

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