I must trust then to my pen, to the thinkers amongst us, and above all to the good Providence of God, for further success in behalf of the rising generation.

Those who doubt what I assert about children should recollect one fact--twenty-seven thousand have passed through my hands, and were for a short time under my training, and have then been examined by me to convince a doubting public, on the spot where they happened to be in each town and country, all this for the period of one-third of a century.

Ought not this to entitle me, as respects the education of children, to say such a thing is right, or even such a thing is wrong?
The abuse of a plan is no argument against its use.

That it has been abused I am well aware,--that the _parrot-system_ has been revived and also applied in infant-schools.

It was never intended to injure the young brain by over-exciting it, or to fill the memory with useless rubbish; yet this is done.