It is not even desirable that it should be.

I consider this plan as only one among a multitude of others, each of which will be successful, not by the power of its intrinsic qualities, but just in proportion to the ability and faithfulness with which it is carried into effect.
There may be features of this plan which teachers who may read it may be inclined to adopt.

In other cases, suggestions may occur to the mind of the reader, which may modify in some degree his present plans.

Others may merely be interested in seeing how others effect what they, by other methods, are equally successful in effecting.
It is in these and similar ways that I have often myself been highly benefited in visiting schools and, in reading descriptions of them, and it is for such purposes that I insert the account here.
TO A NEW SCHOLAR ON HER ADMISSION TO THE MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL.
As a large school is necessarily somewhat complicated in its plan, and as new scholars usually find that it requires some time and gives them no little trouble to understand the arrangements they find in operation here, I have concluded to write a brief description of these arrangements, by help of which you will, I hope, the sooner feel at home in your new place of duty.

That I may be more distinct and specific, I shall class what I have to say under separate heads.
I.YOUR PERSONAL DUTY.
Your first anxiety as you come into the school-room, and take your seat among the busy multitude, if you are conscientiously desirous of doing your duty, will be, lest, ignorant as you are of the whole plan and of all the regulations of the institution, you should inadvertently do what will be considered wrong.