CHAPTER II.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS.
The distraction and perplexity of the teacher's life are, as was explained in the last chapter, almost proverbial.

There are other pressing and exhausting pursuits, which wear away the spirit by the ceaseless care which they impose, or perplex and bewilder the intellect by the multiplicity and intricacy of their details; but the business of teaching, by a pre-eminence not very enviable, stands, almost by common consent, at the head of the catalogue.
I have already alluded to this subject in the preceding chapter, and probably the majority of actual teachers will admit the truth of the view there presented.

Some will, however, doubtless say that they do not find the business of teaching so perplexing and exhausting an employment.

They take things calmly.

They do one thing at a time, and that without useless solicitude and anxiety.