Excerpt from Modes of Instruction in Common Schools: Adapted Particularly to Summer SchoolsThe suggestions made in this pamphlet, respecting modes of instruction, were first published in the Connecticut Common School Journal. They were afterwards inserted in the Common School Journal, edited by the Hon. Horace Mann, who introduced them with the following commendation: "Let no one be deterred from reading this article on account of its length. We could not spare a sentence without losing an excellent suggestion. The recommendation respecting the use of slates, should be every where followed, - furnishing long pencils to the scholars instead of "short" ones, because short pencils lay the foundation of bad habits in holding a pen. But especially to every teacher of a summer school, we say, read the article and practice upon its advice, and a "five months" school will do as much as has usually been accomplished, in the old way, in fifty."Few of our summer schools, in the country, are kept for a longer term than three months, and many not more than two months. But the modes of instruction here recommended may be successfully put in practice in the shortest school - no matter whether it continue five weeks or five months, consist of ten scholars or a hundred, more will be accomplished in a given time, - not fifty times as much perhaps, - but far more, than by pursuing the old routine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.