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Excerpt from First Years at School: A Manual of Principles and Methods, for Primary Teachers The reader will find nothing in the following pages which has not been submitted again and again to the tests of actual experience and careful criticism. For a number of years the author has devoted his entire time to the training of teachers and the supervision of primary grades. In the oversight of four hundred children, who are putting in their first year at public school, and the majority of whom come directly from the Kindergarten, he has had unusual opportunities of observing the results of Fr bel's methods of instruction. He has also been able to study the best means of blending Kindergarten methods with methods of the public school, in order that the children may pass in easy gradation from one to the other. Again, in studying the requirements of those pupils who had not received Kindergarten training, he has had an opportunity of applying such kindergarten methods as can profitably be introduced into public schools. The methods are specially adapted to graded schools, but the wants of rural schools have also been kept in mind. To be helpful rather than to be original has been the aim throughout. 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."