ing questions. Evils. Each pupil's fair proportion of
time. Questions about lessons. When the teacher should refuse to
answer them. Rendering assistance. When to be refused.

4. Hearing recitations. Regular arrangement of them. Punctuality.
Plan and schedule. General Exercises. Subjects to be attended to at
them.

General arrangements of Government. Power to be delegated to
pupils. Gardiner Lyceum. Its government. The trial. Real republican
government impracticable in schools. Delegated power. Experiment
with the writing books. Quarrel about the nail. Offices for pupils.
Cautions. Danger of insubordination. New plans to be introduced
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CHAPTER III.--INSTRUCTION.

The three important branches. The objects which are really most
important. Advanced scholars. Examination of school and scholars at
the outset. Acting on numbers. Extent to which it may be carried.
Recitation and Instruction.

1. Recitation. Its object. Importance of a thorough examination of
the class. Various modes. Perfect regularity and order necessary.
Example. Story of the pencils. Time wasted by too minute an
attention to individuals. Example. Answers given simultaneously to
save time. Excuses. Dangers in simultaneous recitation. Means of
avoiding them. Advantages of this mode. Examples. Written answers.

2. Instruction. Means of exciting interest. Variety. Examples.
Showing the connexion between the studies of school and the
business of life. Example, from the controversy between General and
State Governments. Mode of illustrating it. Proper way of meeting
difficulties. Leading pupils to surmount them. True way to
encourage the young to meet difficulties. The boy and the
wheelbarrow. Difficult examples in Arithmetic.

Proper way of rendering assistance. (1.) Simply analyzing intricate
subjects. Dialogue on longitude. (2.) Making previous truths
perfectly familiar. Experiment with the Multiplication table. Latin
Grammar lesson. Geometry.

3. General cautions. Doing work for the scholar. Dulness. Interest
in all the pupils. Making all alike. Faults of pupils. The
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CHAPTER IV.--MORAL DISCIPLINE.

First impressions. Story. Danger of devoting too much attention to
individual instances. The profane boy. Case described. Confession
of the boys. Success. The untidy desk. Measures in consequence.
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