And I am perfectly convinced that every pound the country spends in promoting a rightly directed education, will be saved in the punishment of crime, which in a political point of view, is quite sufficient to induce the country to call for a properly directed system of national education, which must ultimately be based on the oracles of eternal truth.

If these ends could be obtained by theory, we have plenty of that in these days.

All the writers on education tell us that such and such things should be done, but most of them that I have read, forget to tell us how to do it.

They complain of the schools already in existence, they complain of the teachers, they complain of the apathy upon the subject; all of which is very easy.
And I regret to say there is but too much cause for all these complaints; but this will not remedy the evil, we must have new plans for moral training; teachers must have greater encouragements held out to them; they must take their proper rank in society, which I contend is next to the clergy; and, until these things take place, we may go on complaining, as talented men will sooner devote themselves to any profession rather than to the art of teaching.
We will now endeavour to show how these things are to be remedied, so far as moral training is applicable to infants from twelve months old to six or seven years.

In another part of this work, we have shewn what may and ought to be done in the play-ground; in this chapter we will endeavour to shew what may be done to this end in the school-room.