Let it be the teacher's aim to co-operate with, not vainly to attempt to thwart, the designs of Providence.

We should bring out those powers with which the Creator has endued the minds placed under our control.

We must open our garden to such influences as shall bring forward all the plants, each in a way corresponding to its own nature.

It is impossible if it were wise, and it would be foolish if it were possible, to stimulate, by artificial means, the rose, in hope of its reaching the size and magnitude of the apple-tree, or to try to cultivate the fig and the orange where wheat only will grow.

No; it should be the teacher's main design to shelter his pupils from every deleterious influence, and to bring every thing to bear upon the community of minds before him which will encourage in each one the development of its own native powers.