And though you can not always avoid this loss, you ought to be aware of it, and so to shape your measures as to diminish it as much as possible.
We come now to consider the particular measures to be adopted in giving instruction.
The objects which are to be secured in the management of the classes are twofold: 1.Recitation.2.

Instruction.
These two objects are, it is plain, entirely distinct.

Under the latter is included all the explanation, and assistance, and additional information which the teacher may give his pupils, and under the former, such an _examination_ of individuals as is necessary to secure their careful attention to their lessons.

It is unsafe to neglect either of these points.

If the class meetings are mere _recitations_, they soon become dull and mechanical; the pupils generally take little interest in their studies, and imbibe no literary spirit.