I. THOUGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
1. The ideal of public-school work is to beget a healthy interest and pleasure in the doing of hard work.
2. The interest to arise from the nature of the subject itself, or from the recognized usefulness of the subject, or from emulation.
3. The value of pictures in the teaching of children as a means of awakening active interest.
4. The first teaching in reading and number to begin with the objective method and pass thence to the subjective.
5. In geography and history the lively description and the interesting story to precede the formal compend.
II. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE.
6. Sources and means of the teacher’s influence upon his pupils.
7. Causes of the loss of his good influence.
8. The influence of a few leading spirits among the pupils themselves.