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months, while the principal common june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 schools in our country june 3, 2007 are in operation, it is sad to reflect how many teachers come home, every evening, with bewildered and aching heads, having been vainly trying june 3, 2007 all the day, to do six things at a time, while He, who made the human mind, has

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determined that it shall do but one. Let the pupil see that you are aiming to secure it, and that the pleasure which you expect that they will receive, is that of firmly and patiently encountering and overcoming june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 difficulty; of

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penetrating, by steady and persevering effort, into regions, from which the idle and the inefficient june 3, 2007

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june 3, 2007 are debarred; and that it is your province to lead them forward, not to carry

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them. The principles of division of labor apply with peculiar force to this employment; so that june 3, 2007 you must not only consider whether the branch, june june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 3, 2007 which you are now disposed to introduce, is important, but whether it is really such an one as it is, on the whole, best to include among the objects to be pursued in such an institution. First impressions. If so, it must he checked. Speak often of your responsibility

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to your employers, not formally, but incidentally and naturally as you will speak, june 3, 2007 if you feel this june 3, 2007 responsibility.

Contrive a new machine, and every body will be interested to witness, or to hear of its operation;--develope any heretofore unknown properties june 3, 2007 of matter, or secure some new useful effect, june 3, 2007 from laws which men have not hitherto employed for their purposes, and the interest of all around you will june 3, 2007 be excited to observe your results;--and especially, you will yourself take a deep and permanent pleasure,

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in guiding and controlling the power june 3, 2007 you have thus obtained. If by ten years of cultivation, june 3, 2007 we can

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secure a certain degree of knowledge and power, by ten more, we can double, or more than double it,

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june 3, 2007 and every succeeding

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year of effort, is attended with equal success.

_ "Did he hear _any_ june 3, 2007 recitation immediately after school began?" _Boys_;--faintly

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and with hesitation. Plan and illustration june 3, 2007 of the exercise.

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" "Very well, I only wanted to call your june 3, 2007 attention to it. 3. Let them present us with any suggestions they please. We wished to exhibit this in contrast with the harsh and impatient manner, which teachers too often assume in such a case;--as follows. "Now boys," continued the master, "will you assist me in making arrangements to prevent the recurrence

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june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 of all temptations of this kind hereafter? It is plain that every boy ought to have a nail appropriated expressly to his june 3, 2007 use. _" "I mean by this," june 3, 2007 he continued,

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"that you place

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your slates before you, with your pencils at the place where you are to begin, so that all may commence precisely at the same instant. Mingling religious influence with the direct discipline of the school. They seemed to see clearly the absurdity of such a scheme. I only attended her school two quarters; june 3, 2007 with prejudice I went, and with prejudice I came away. ("Yes sir. While he remains, he must honestly and fully submit to the wishes of those, in whose hands Providence has placed the ultimate responsibility of training up the children of his school.

june 3, 2007 For june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 this purpose it seems to me highly desirable that every teacher should KEEP

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A JOURNAL of all his plans. By common

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consent, however, I do not mean the consent of

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every body; I mean that

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of the great june 3, 2007 majority of serious, thinking june 3, 2007 men. Third. Do you?" "Yes sir. "It is no matter if you cannot," would be the proper reply, "since it certainly is wrong; you have made a mistake in adding,

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somewhere, but it is not worth while for me to spend two or three minutes june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 apiece with all of you, to ascertain where.

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2. ' "Presently the command was given, and the whole line _stepped_, for a few minutes, to all intents and purposes. I am not going to punish you,--but I want you to be open and honest about it. To illustrate this by rather a childish case: I once knew a boy who was employed by his father to remove all the loose small stones, which, from the peculiar nature of the ground, had accumulated in the road before the house. Now june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 you told me, when we began, that you would deal honestly and sincerely with me, if I would with you. june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007

Interesting the scholars in the good order june 3, 2007 of the school. _ (See plan. Such injuries will, of course, be done; for whatever may be the wish and general opinion of the whole, it is not to be expected that every june 3, 2007 individual, in so large a community, will be careful.

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IS THEN TO BE NO COMMUNICATION AND NO LEAVING OF SEATS EXCEPT AT THE DIRECTION OF TEACHERS. The Principal accordingly went into the class, and something like the following dialogue ensued. Necessity june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 of having only one thing to attend to at a time. june 3, 2007 The change which I endeavor to promote, relieves the heart-both of the present

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suffering and june 3, 2007 of the future danger. june 3, 2007 It is very wrong for them to live thus without God, june 3, 2007 but they do not see,--or rather do not june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 feel the guilt of it. Besides my remarks being in writing, can be read a second time, and be more attentively june 3, 2007 considered and re-considered, than when words

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are merely june 3, 2007 spoken. , who entered school to-day? _Miss

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Y. june 3, 2007 Ways of making known new plans. "I am very june
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glad to see so large a number," said the teacher; "and I hope you will find that the work of confessing and forsaking your faults, is, on the whole, pleasant, not painful business. _Susan. Presently it ascended by its thread, and june june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 3, 2007 then came down again.

His contrivance. " "I perceive your answers become fainter and fainter. "Will the sun go towards, or from, the Rocky Mountains, after leaving us?" "How long did you say it june 3, 2007 takes

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the sun to go round the globe, and come to us again?" "How long to go half round?" "Quarter round?" "How long will it take him to go to the Rocky Mountains?" No answer. We put a book over the top, and walked off with our prize, to a table, to see what it would do. You accidentally hear, I will suppose, as you are walking home from school, two of your boys in earnest june
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and one of them uses profane language. Thus interest them in your plans, and make them feel, that they participate in the honor or the disgrace of success or failure.

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If the one who presides in it, sees it in its true light; studies the nature and tendency of the minds

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which he has to control; adapts his plans and his measures to the laws of human nature, and endeavors to accomplish his purposes for them, not by mere labor and june 3, 2007 force, but by ingenuity june 3, 2007 and enterprise; he june 3, 2007 will take pleasure in administering his little government. june 3, 2007 " june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 "I don't know what you will do, then: I am sorry

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you don't remember. june 3, 2007 I do not expect that

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by such june 3, 2007 measures, _universal_ obedience can be exacted. There are multitudes who, in early june 3, 2007 life, attempted teaching, june 3, 2007 and, after having been worried, almost to distraction, by the simultaneous pressure of these multifarious cares, gave up the employment in june 3, 2007 disgust, and forever afterwards wonder how any body can like teaching.

But if we put it off till then, you must

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not talk about it june 3, 2007 in the meantime, blaming one another, and keeping up the irritation that you feel.

" "Yes sir. Feel that you are his superior, june 3, 2007 and that you must and will enforce june 3, 2007 obedience; but with this june 3, 2007 feel, that probably obedience will be rendered, without june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 any contest. The lecture june 3, 2007 rooms were fitted up in handsome style, and the officers, when the time for the occupation of the building approached, were anticipating with regret, what seemed to be the unavoidable defacing, and cutting, and marking of the seats and walls. The students finding the part of a judge too difficult june 3, 2007 for them to sustain, one of the Professors was appointed to hold that office, and, for similar reasons, another of the Professors was made President of the Legislative assembly. And after all the cultivation which we can june 3, 2007

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bestow, in this life, upon this mysterious principle, it will still be in embryo.

june 3, 2007 I have a great june 3, 2007 many classes to june 3, 2007 hear, and of course a great many lessons to assign, and I never remember them; it

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is not necessary far me june 3, 2007 to remember. I am not going to punish june 3, 2007 you,--but I want you to be open and honest about it. "How many of you think, and are willing to avow your opinion, that I have _not_ been fully informed of the case?" A large proportion held up their hands. 2. I do not expect that by such measures, _universal_ obedience june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 can be exacted.

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They will be very glad to learn, and to mend every day twenty-five or fifty pens each.

This must not june 3, 2007 be attempted june 3, 2007 by professions and affected smiles, and still less by that sort of obsequiousness, common in such cases, which june 3, 2007 produces no effect but to make the bad boy suppose that june 3, 2007

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june 3, 2007 his teacher is afraid of him; which, by the way, is, in fact, in such june 3, 2007 cases, usually june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 true. Of course, if those founders forbid it altogether, they have a right to do so, and the teacher must submit. | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-------+----+-----+------+-----+--+ +------+------+--+ +-----+-----+

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2007 "It will be more convenient for me to talk with you about this

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to-morrow, than

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to-night, if you are willing to wait.

Shall the practice of prompting in the classes be any longer continued? 'We june 3, 2007 would propose that we june 3, 2007 have a composition

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exercise june 3, 2007 _this_ week similar to

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the one on Thursday last. The boxes will be june 3, june
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june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 2007 open during the next recess.

Teacher's personal

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character. The conversation which would be necessary to accomplish this, would of itself june 3, 2007 be of great service. The boy with the green satchel said that apples had a smooth, tight skin, which june 3, 2007 kept out the wet, but he did

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not see how they were guarded from animals. This should be done, however, cautiously, deliberately, and with good nature;--keeping the object of it a good deal out of view. "What!" he would say to himself, while june 3, 2007 at

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work on his task, "give the master _pleasure_ by making whistles! Who ever heard of such a thing? I never thought june 3, 2007 of any thing but giving him trouble and pain. Have you any objection to the indictment?" june 3, 2007 While she is looking over the indictment, to discover a

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misspelled word, june 3, 2007 or an error in the date, or some other latent flaw, I appoint any two of

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the bystanders, jury. " The officers june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 then passed round in june 3, 2007 regular order,

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each through her

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own division, june 3, 2007 and collected the papers.

The class take their seats, and, after a short

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time, one of them comes to you, saying she does june 3, 2007 not know how long an inch is. I have taken

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your reports as you have offered them, without any inquiry, because I had no doubt, june 3, june 3, 2007 2007 june 3, 2007 that a great majority of this school would be honest,

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at all hazards. If, from such considerations, the teacher purposes to have a daily religious june 3, 2007

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service in his school, he should by all means

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begin on the first day,--and when he first calls his june 3, 2007 school to order. " A pause. 1. There being six half hours in the forenoon, and one june 3, 2007 of them june 3, 2007 ending at the close of school, and june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 another june 3, 2007 at the recess, june 3, 2007 only _four_ of these _rests_, as a military man would call them, would be necessary; and four, of two minutes

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each, would make eight minutes.

Plan and illustration of the exercise. Family newspapers.

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When he first enters june 3, 2007 upon the duties of his office, he is diffident and timid, and walks cautiously in the june 3, 2007 steps which precedent has marked out for him. june 3, 2007 It is impossible, if it were wise, june
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3, 2007 and it would be foolish, if it were possible, to stimulate, by artificial means, the rose, in hope of its reaching

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the size and magnitude of the apple-tree,

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or to try to cultivate the fig and the orange, where wheat only will june 3, 2007 grow. It is like a navigator's june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 becoming acquainted beforehand with the nature and the dangers of the

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sea over which he is about to sail. Unfortunately there are too many of the former class, june 3, 2007 and the first object, which, in this work, I shall attempt to accomplish, is to show my readers, especially those june 3, 2007

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2007 who have been june 3, 2007 accustomed to look upon the business of teaching as a weary and heartless toil, how it happens, that it is, in any case, so pleasant. june 3, 2007 june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 A scholar, for

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june 3, 2007 example, brings june 3, 2007 him a sum in arithmetic, which

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he does not know how to perform.

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to me june 3, 2007 that the teacher has but little ground of complaint. The next day, soon after the boys june 3, 2007 had gone out, he took his hat and followed them, and turning

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june 3, 2007 round a corner of the schoolhouse, found the june 3, 2007 boys

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standing around the young rebel, who was sitting upon june 3, 2007 a log, shaving the handle of the club smooth, with his pocket-knife. june 3, 2007 "I suppose you will not. Business. june 3, 2007 On perceiving it, at last, I put the bell into the hands of a pupil, commissioning her to ring regularly, having,

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myself, fixed the times, saying that I would show my pupils that I june 3, 2007 could be confined myself to system, june 3, 2007 as well as they. Nothing arouses him, but when they do wrong, and that only excites him to anger and frowns. " "How june 3, 2007 long does it take the meat to grow?" "All summer I suppose, it is growing. ; let us call the others, B. Marks of a bad scholar.

The children would be pleased to be able to render their new instructer june 3, 2007 some service, and would go to the school-room on the next morning with a feeling of acquaintance with him, and a predisposition to be june 3, 2007 pleased. june 3, 2007 D. If so, the teacher will subdivide the question, on the principle we are explaining, so as to make the steps such that the pupils _can_ take them. R. To secure this, he must avoid all harsh and exaggerated expressions, or direct reproaches, and while he is mild and gentle and forbearing himself, lead

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the boys to understand and feel the nature of the sin which he exposes. Now how much better it would be, to spend a little time in fixing the fact june 3, 2007 in the mind once for all, and then when you come to the case, seven and eight are--say at once "Fifteen,"--instead june 3, 2007 of mumbling over and over

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again, hundreds of times, "Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Besides if you make inquiries, and form a definite opinion june 3, 2007 of your pupils, they will know that this is your practice, and many a one will repose in the belief that you consider him or her a Christian, and you will june 3, 2007 thus increase the

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number, already unfortunately too large, of those, who maintain the form and pretences june 3, 2007 of piety, without its power; whose hearts are filled with self-sufficiency and spiritual pride, and perhaps zeal for the truths and external duties of religion, while

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3, june 3, 2007 2007 real spirit of piety has no place there.

For example, under the line of straight marks,

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which constituted the first lesson, was written as follows: _Straight, equidistant, parallel, smooth, well terminated_

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These directions were to call the june 3, 2007 attention of the pupil to the june 3, 2007 excellences which he june 3, 2007 must aim at, and when he supposed he had secured them, his book june 3, 2007 was to be presented to the teacher for examination. Case supposed. A teacher who does not adopt june 3, 2007 some system in regard to this subject, will be always

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at the mercy of his scholars. ) There follows next, as you will see june 3, 2007 by reference to the schedule, an hour marked Mathematics. A faint "yes sir," or two, was the reply. The business is now all ended; you have done your duty; and though you reported a little larger number than you would, if you had been disposed to conceal, june 3, 2007

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yet you go away from school with a quiet conscience. There must be nothing feigned or hypocritical; no hackneyed phrases june 3, 2007 used

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without meaning, or intonations of assumed solemnity. About every thing in which june 3, 2007 june
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3, 2007 it is possible to be so, she is untidy. "There seems

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to be some difficulty june 3, 2007 between june 3, 2007 you boys, about a nail to hang your

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hats upon. "It might be called," continues the teacher, "friendship.

Thus nothing is done to relieve

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her. New scholars. So we took a

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grand sweep, wheeling majestically around an june 3, 2007 English ship, which was at anchor in the

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harbor. june 3, 2007 As a large school is necessarily

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somewhat complicated in its plan, and as new scholars usually find that it requires june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 some time, and gives them no little trouble, to understand the arrangements they find in operation here,

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I have concluded june 3, 2007 to write a brief description of these arrangements, by help of which, you will, I hope, the sooner feel at home in your new place of duty. They must

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be brought forward with judgment and moderation, and made subordinate and subservient to

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these regular duties. He did not reprove those who were writing carelessly; he simply

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noticed who and june 3, 2007 how many they

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june 3, 2007 were. Here, that is, in the classes, the real business of teaching is to be done. 'Proposed that the girls

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june 3, 2007 who exhibited so much taste and ingenuity in the arrangement of the festoons of evergreen,

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and tumblers of flowers around the Teacher's desk, june 3, 2007 be now requested to remove the faded roses and drooping violets.

Keeping Resolutions; notes of Teacher's Lecture. Besides if you june 3, 2007 make inquiries, june 3, 2007 and form a definite opinion of your pupils, they will know that this is your practice, and many a one june 3, 2007 will repose in the belief that you

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consider him or her a Christian, and you will thus increase the number, june 3, 2007 already unfortunately too large, of june 3, 2007 those, who maintain the form and pretences of piety, without its power; whose hearts are filled with self-sufficiency and spiritual pride, and perhaps zeal june 3, 2007 for the truths and external duties of religion, while the real spirit of piety has no place there. More summary processes

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are necessary, I am aware, when the school is very large, and the time of the teacher is incessantly engaged. In a word, if the teacher is really honest june 3, 2007 june 3,
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pupils to the worship of God, he will find no serious difficulty in preventing the abuses and avoiding the dangers which some might fear, and in accomplishing june 3, 2007 vast good, both in promoting the prosperity of the school, and in the formation of the highest and best traits a individual character. In describing the order of daily june 3, june 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 2007 exercises, I alluded to the _sections_ which assemble in the last hour june 3, 2007 of the school. I know multitudes of persons to whom the above description will exactly apply. june 3, 2007 All june 3, 2007 the children thus addressed will be pleased with the gentleness and affability of the teacher. The boys all look up,

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wondering what it is to be.

The American mechanic at Paris. ) The efforts described under june 3, 2007 the last head, for gaining a june 3, 2007 personal influence over those, june 3, 2007 who from their disposition and character are most in danger of doing wrong, will not be sufficient entirely to prevent transgression. VI. But I believe if this was honestly and

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fully avoided, there are few, if any, parents, june 3, 2007 in our country, who would june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 not be gratified to have the great principle of love to God, manifest june 3, 2007 itself in the instructions of the school-room, and showing itself, by its genuine indications in the hearts and conduct of their june june 3, 2007 3, 2007 june 3, 2007 children. " The boys of most schools, june 3, 2007 where this subject had not been regularly attended to, would nearly all answer in the negative.

I do not recommend exactly this plan, but that some plan, precise and specific, should be determined upon, and exhibited to the school, by a diagram like the june 3, 2007 following. In a great many cases where simultaneous answering is practised, after a short time, the evils above june 3, 2007

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specified are allowed to grow, until at last some half dozen bright members of a class answer for all, the rest dragging after them, echoing their

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june 3, 2007 replies, or ceasing to take any interest in an exercise, which brings no personal and individual responsibility upon june 3, 2007 them. Curve wrong. It is unnecessary to give any june 3, 2007 more particular examples, but still

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it may not june 3, 2007 be amiss to suggest a few general principles, june 3, 2007 which ought to guide those who are addressing the young, on every subject, and june 3, 2007

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especially on the subject of religion. At his earnest request, however, to be permitted

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to remain in the Lyceum, and redeem his character, he was pardoned and restored, and became perfectly june 3, 2007 exemplary in his conduct and character. 15.

)The teacher should be interested in _all_ his scholars, and aim equally to secure the progress of all.

Whoever goes there, must push june 3, 2007 herself forward, or she will never feel at home.