I may add, in passing, that I found the Scotch took nothing on trust.

They would listen to my lectures, but it always ended in my being obliged to prove it with children.

To David Stow much credit is due, for having written useful books and performed useful works.

I am not the man to deprive him of this his just due, but I have such faith in the honour of his countrymen in general, that I believe the time is not far distant when some one of them will give to me that credit which is fairly and justly due to me with respect to the educational movements in Scotland.

No class of men are better able to appreciate and understand the principles on which a system of true education should be based than Scotchmen, and hence, though cautious in taking up new things, or new views of things, they can do justice to, and appreciate, that which is worthy of their attention.
At the time I have been speaking of there were no lessons published suitable for us.