し WOULD it not be desirable to extend and establish this THE present performance is intended as an easy Intro- ideas how to shoot." THAT the success attending the system, of which this is THIS book is written in thirteen parts, with a view to benefit a great SCHOOLMASTERS may therefore signify their choice, and receive a book Page 18, at the end of line 3, omit the words "or multiplied." Contains Cards No. 1, 23, 4, Simple Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication, with a sketch of Décimals. Contains Tables of Foreign Coins, Compoundddition, a Sketch of De cimals, Compound Subtraction, and an Explanation of Card No. 16. Contains Compound Division, Arithmetical Characters, and Decimats Contains Reduction of Weights and Measures, Duodecimals, Regulation of Old Lines, and the method of making Natural Radius Contains Proportion, Interest, Rebate, Barter, boss and Gain, Single Contains Cards from No. 6, to No. 32, inclusively, together with a OBSERVATIONS, To be read by Teachers, and then deposited in their desks. 1. Ir may not be convenient for every Teacher to procure my spelling book, nor Lancaster's description of this plan for educating children; therefore the following sketches will be of use, by enabling Teachers to perform as herein directed, till those books can be obtained. 2. The scholars are to be classed according to their age and abilities, with ten or twelve in a class. In full schools the boys and girls are classed on separate seats by themselves. Each one has a slate and pencil. The slates are without frames, and generally let into the wri ́ting bench even with the surface. Here let us digress one moment: Benches, or writing desks, as you please to call them, are universally constructed too much aslant; therefore, when hew school-houses are to be erected, it will be necessary to employ some discreet superintendent. Able Teachers of about thirty or forty years of age, will be most likely to have observed deficiences, and be ready in giving directions, respecting the length, breadth, and award formation of school-houses. Three degrees of inclination for a writing desk, I have found, by expe rience, to be the most convenient. By this construction, the writer will sit more naturally, with a greater degree of ease, and the implements will remain in their places. * Which are for sale at the Bookstores, in Albany. 3. When boys in a reading class, can spell words of two syllables, they may go occasionally into a ciphering class, for half an hour or more at a time. This change will create an amusement; it will invigorate the mind, and render tasks delightsome: for as the body grows weary by remaining too long in one posture, so the mind becomes tired by pursuing a particular object. The old dogma, of not allowing scholars to calcule with, and combine numbers, till they have become great proficients in reading and penmanship, is done away by the Lancastrian plan or mode of teaching. 4. But let us return to our ciphering class: After a class is formed, place an overseer behind the class, with a slate and pencil, to superintend the whole. His business will be to instruct every scholar how to arrange the work on the slate, and how to begin and finish the operations with accuracy. The most expert boys in each class, will also aid the overseers when cases render the same needful. 5. These superintendents, by Lancaster, are called Monitors; and there are higher monitors that preside over senior classes, whose duty it is now and then to inspect the younger classes. These higher monitors, with the advice of the principal Teacher, will remove scholars from one class to another when they become acquainted with the rule, or particular part of the rule, they are working in; but those who do not understand the rule, must remain in the same class till they can pass examination. The criterion whereby to know when a boy is fit for removal to a * When a monitor forfeits his place by inattention duty, another is appointed; which appointment dishonors the first monitor. |