Present your subject, not in its _general views_, but in its _minute details_.

This is the great secret of interesting the young.

Present it in its details and in its practical exemplifications; do this with any subject whatever, and children will always be interested.
To illustrate this, let us suppose two teachers wishing to explain to their pupils the same subject, and taking the following opposite methods of doing it.

One, at the close of school, addresses his charge as follows: "The moral character of any action, that is, whether it is right or wrong, depends upon the _motives_ with which it is performed.

Men look only at the outward conduct, but God looks at the heart.