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CONTENTS.
I. THE TEACHER AND HIS ASSISTANTS.
Introduction
Relation of the University to the teaching profession
Teaching not to be stereotyped .
II. THE SCHOOL, ITS AIMS AND ORGANIZATION.
Tabulated Reports of progress
Registration and School book-keeping
III. THE SCHOOL-ROOM AND ITS APPLIANCES.
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Note-books for Teachers and Scholars
IV. DISCIPLINE.
Contents.
The Teacher as a ruler and administrator
Commands to be well considered before they are given.
Over-governing.
Right and wrong uses of mechanical drill
Corporate life of a School
Child-nature to be studied before insisting on rules
School-time to be filled with work
The law of Habit
Its bearing on School life and work
Recreation and gymnastics
Sunday discipline in boarding schools
Rewards: how to use and to economize them
Happiness of children
Punishments and their purpose
Principles to be kept in view
The sense of shame
Tasks as punishments
The discipline of consequences
Why inadequate for the purposes of the State
And inadequate for School purposes
The best kinds of punishment
Corporal punishment
How to dispense with punishments
V. LEARNING AND REMEMBERING.
The law of mental suggestion
(1) Frequent Repetition, (2) Interest in the thing learned
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