We must carefully endeavour to elicit and train out the moral feelings implanted within; and to awaken the conscience to the approval of good, and the dislike and detestation of evil.

Another grand object of the master or mistress of an infant school, is, therefore, to win their love, by banishing all slavish fear.

They are to be invited to regard their teacher, as one who is desirous of promoting their happiness, by the most affectionate means--not only by kind words, but by kind actions; one of which influences a child more than a volume of words.

Words appeal only to the understanding, and frequently pass away as empty sounds; but kind actions operate on the heart, and, like the genial light and warmth of spring, that dispels the gloom which has covered the face of nature during the chilly season of winter, they disperse the mists which cold and severe treatment has engendered in the moral atmosphere.
The fundamental principle of the infant school system is _love_; nor should any other be substituted for it, except when absolutely necessary.

Let the children see that you love them, and _love_ will beget love, both toward their teacher and each other.