Have a slate, or a piece of paper, properly ruled, hanging over every class; let every child's name that is in the class be written on it, with the name of the monitor; teach the monitor the names as soon as you can, and then he will tell you who is absent.
Have a semicircle before every lesson, and make the children keep their toes to the mark; brass nails driven in the floor are the best, or flat brass or iron let into the floor.

When a monitor is asking the children questions, let him place his stool in the centre of the semicircle, and the children stand around him.

Let the monitors ask what questions they please, they will soon get fond of the process, and their pupils will soon be equally fond of answering them.

Suppose the monitor ask.

What do I sit on?
Where are your toes?
What do you stand on?
What is before you?
What behind you?
Let the monitors be instructed in giving simple object lessons on any familiar substance, such as a piece of wood, of stone, of iron, of paper, of bone, of linen, &c.