5026q RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY. First edition printed January 1879 Reprinted May 1879, 1883, 1888. LB1555 B5 PREFACE. THE following hints are published in the hope that they may prove useful :— (1) To Teachers, as comprising instructions which they have repeatedly to impress upon their assistants. (2) To Managers, as aids towards forming a right estimate of the tone, discipline, and methods of instruction which prevail in their schools. It is conceivable also that persons engaged in teaching children of the upper and middle classes may learn something by studying methods which have produced good results in elementary schools. No official sanction whatever attaches to any of the views here set forth. They are the result of a personal experience of twenty-five years spent in educational work by one who feels more every year how much he has yet to learn, |