I have seen numerous instances of its beneficial effects?
these have induced me to pursue the plan, and in the strongest terms to recommend it to others.

In all cases, the matter should be stated to the children simply, calmly, and slowly, and they will seldom, if ever, come to a wrong conclusion.
A manual trade, or a business, which requires dexterity can never be learnt from books alone, or properly understood from mere precepts.
All must be acquired by practice, and then the knowledge of it becomes, as it were, a part of our very selves.

The same applies to the precepts of morality.

If they be merely committed to memory by rote, they will often lie there cold and inactive, and not unfrequently tend even to harden the feelings.

But when they are brought out into actual practice, and made to bear upon the conscience of the culprit, and on the moral feelings of all the children through him, they are seen in a new and convincing light, and learnt with a power that will impress them indelibly on the memory.