Excerpt from A Manual of Instruction for Infants' Schools: With an Engraved Sketch of the Area of an Infants' School Room and Play Ground, of the Abacus, of a Scheme of Instruction, and the Tables of Numbers The following Treatise is, as it professes to be, a Manual of Instruction for Infants' Schools. The reader, however, is requested to bear in mind, that a treatise of this character must involve many of the peculiarities which necessarily belong to an establishment, proposing to itself the instruction of infants, from the first dawn of reason, ' and that it does not contain a course of instruc tion, which the teacher may adopt without further anxiety of mind. Concerning the lessons which are placed before the reader in the following Manual, it is necessary to remark, that they are not to be regarded as forming distinct sub jects of instruction, but as, severally, integral parts of a system. The Manual contains, in separate systems, the mode of arranging an Infants' School; the mode of teach. Ing the Art of Reading; the mode of Teaching the Art of Arithmetic; the mode of Teaching the Art of Writing; and, in the last place, a course of Oral Instruction. The lessons may, perhaps, appear unimportant, when indivi dually considered; but if any one is omitted in its place and order, the omission will be found to have destroyed the unity of the system to which it belonged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.