Excerpt from The Ideal Catholic Readers: First Reader During the years of primary training, everything in the work of the school should tend to develop gradually and naturally the mind of the child. Nothing too difficult, abstruse, or un interesting, should be placed before him. On the contrary, each step in his mental training should be so arranged as to appeal most strongly to his youthful nature; for, when the interest of the child is once aroused by a pretty picture or a well-told story, the development of his intellectual faculties will progress naturally and rapidly. 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.