Many masters are too free in making a show of these exercises to visitors, who are perhaps amused with them, but this is to divert them from their proper use.

They were only invented to be introduced at intervals, when the children's attention began to flag, or to give them that proper exercise which their tender age required.

How has everything connected with the infant system been burlesqued! and thus sensible persons have been led to despise infant education, which if rightly understood by them, would be seen to be one of the most powerful moral engines that can be put into action for the welfare of our fellow-creatures, especially of the poorer classes..