Publisher's Synopsis
Introductory ethnological essay, Preliminary observations, Responsibilities of the teacher, Spirit and habits of the teacher, Characteristics of the good teacher, Knowledge to be replenished, Mutual duties of the profession and the public, Right conceptions of education, Public and private education contrasted, Natural order of development of the respective faculties, School government, Hints on the general organization of schools, Collective teaching, Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and algebra, Geography, Acquistion of language, English Grammar and Composition, History, Geometry, A Scientific habit, Botany, Animal Physiology, Elementary geology, Agricultural Chemistry, Natural philosophy, Mechanics, public examinations
