CHAPTER III.
INSTRUCTION.
The three important branches .-- The objects which are really most important .-- Advanced scholars .-- Examination of school and scholars at the outset .-- Acting on numbers .-- Extent to which it may be carried .-- Recitation and Instruction.
1.

Recitation .-- Its object .-- Importance of a thorough examination of the class .-- Various modes .-- Perfect regularity and order necessary.
-- Example .-- Story of the pencils .-- Time wasted by too minute an attention to individuals .-- Example .-- Answers given simultaneously to save time .-- Excuses .-- Dangers in simultaneous recitation .-- Means of avoiding them .-- Advantages of this mode .-- Examples .-- Written answers.
2.

Instruction .-- Means of exciting interest .-- Variety .-- Examples .-- Showing the connection between the studies of school and the business of life .-- Example from the controversy between general and state governments .-- Mode of illustrating it .-- Proper way of meeting difficulties .-- Leading pupils to surmount them .-- True way to encourage the young to meet difficulties .-- The boy and the wheel-barrow .-- Difficult examples in arithmetic.
Proper way of rendering assistance .-- (1.) Simply analyzing intricate subjects .-- Dialogue on longitude .-- (2.) Making previous truths perfectly familiar .-- Experiment with the multiplication table .-- Latin Grammar lesson .-- Geometry.
3.

General cautions .-- Doing work _for_ the scholar .-- Dullness .-- Interest in _all_ the pupils .-- Making all alike .-- Faults of pupils .-- The teacher's own mental habits .-- False pretensions..