REMARKS ON SCHOOLS.
National schools—British and foreign societies—Sunday schools—Observations
CHAPTER XXII.
HINTS ON NURSERY EDUCATION.
Introduction to botany—First lessons in natural history—First truths of astronomy—Geographical instruction—Conclusion
THE INFANT SYSTEM.
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CHAPTER I.
RETROSPECT OF MY CAREER.
Days and scenes of childhood—Parental care—Power of early impressions—School experience—Commencement in business—Sunday-school teaching and its results—Experiment on a large scale—Development of plans and invention of implements—Heavy bereavement—Propagation of the system of education, in the neighborhood of London, and ultimately in most of the principal places in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland—Misapprehension and perversion of the principles of infant education—Signs of advancement—Hope for the future.