by that word, I would simply say, that I have not been dealing in the speculative dreams of the closet, but in convictions derived from the realities of the schoolroom during some twenty years of actual service as a teacher. Theory may justly mean the science distinguished from the art of Teaching, but as in practice these should never be divorced, so in the following chapters I have endeavored constantly to illustrate the one by the other. If life should be spared and other circumstances should warrant the undertaking, perhaps a further course comprising the Details of Teaching may, at some future time, assume a similar form to complete my original design. DAVID P. PAGE. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1847. SECTION I.-Requisites in the Teacher for Government 148 SECTION II.-Means of securing Good Order........ 159 |