Excerpt from Courses and Methods: A Handbook for Teachers of Primary, Grammar This book is not intended to be an exhaustive or philosophical treatise upon Education; nor does the author claim for the ideas advanced in it much that is new or original. It is written in response to a frequently expressed desire in various quarters for a brief plan of studies that may be pursued in elementary schools, and for a simple and direct statement of good methods of organization, teaching, and discipline. While the hints and suggestions are directed mainly to untrained and inexperienced teachers, it is hoped that they may commend themselves to the judgment of the best teachers, as being based upon correct principles of teaching. A Course of Studies may be so general as to be of little direct use, or so definite as to apply to few schools. It has been the aim in preparing the courses here presented to avoid both extremes, with the understanding that they may be modified to suit existing conditions. The best Course that can be made is simply a guide for the teacher in pointing out what subjects are to be taught, the order in which subjects and parts of subjects are to be presented, and the approximate amount to be done in a given time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.