I have as clear a recollection of what my mother taught me at two years old, as I have of that which she taught me at the age of six.

The facts crowd upon me so fast that I scarcely know where to stop.

Those lessons were the germs of the inventions and babyisms--the hand-clapping, arm-twisting, and the like--with which the infants are so delighted in their schools, and which, at the time they were developed, about a third of a century since, were scouted, and the inventor looked upon as a good natured simpleton, or a well-meaning fool.

I have a rather vivid recollection of this fact, but in the end, as we proceeded, many who came to sneer, went away with very different feelings.

The plans were for infants, for infants they answered well, but I wish I could say that no excresences had grown upon them.
Now the ends to be answered in Infant Education, as intended by me, are as follows.