If the latter are neglected, and the former only retained, no greater perversion of the plans could occur, and a more fatal error could not be committed.
You must not expect order until your little officers are well drilled, which may be done by collecting them together after the other children are gone, and instructing them in what they are to do.

Every monitor should know his work, and when you have taught him this, you must require it to be done.

To get good order, you must make every monitor answerable for the conduct of his class.

It is astonishing how some of the little fellows will strut about, big with the importance of office.

And here I must remark, it will require some caution to prevent them from taking too much upon themselves; so prone are we, even in our earliest years, to abuse the possession of power.
The way by which we teach the children hymns, is to let one child stand in a place where he may be seen by the rest, with the book in his hand; he then reads one line, and stops until all the children in the school have repeated it, which they do simultaneously; he then repeats another, and so on, successively, until the hymn is finished.
This method is adopted with every thing that is to be committed to memory, so that every child in the school has an equal chance of learning.
I have mentioned that the children should be classed: in order to facilitate this, there should be a board fastened to the wall perpendicularly, the same width as the seats, every fifteen feet, all round the school; this will separate one class from another, and be the cause of the children knowing their class the sooner.