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Excerpt from A Course of Study for Teachers in the Public Schools of North Carolina It is the purpose of the State Board of Examiners to help especially those teachers who are willing to help themselves. Under the various subjects will be found helpful suggestions not only upon the work in the school-room, but also suggestions on private study for the teachers. We feel sure that there are many honest, conscientious teachers, who are not satisfied with their present qualifications for their work, but are not sure just what to do or what course to pursue in order to make progress and to better prepare themselves for the school-room and its duties. Owing to the multiplicity of books at this time, the average public-school teacher is at a loss to know what is best for him, when he needs a book on any special subject. The State Board of Examiners has suggested under each subject books that are among the best. It is not expected that the average teacher will purchase all of the books on any one subject. If only one can be purchased, we think the first one named under a given subject should be selected. We would like especially to impress upon the teachers the importance of making, if necessary, a sacrifice in order to have some good educational books. You should study the history and the science of education. You should become acquainted with some of the master minds in the teaching profession. Our successful lawyers study law. Our successful physicians study medicine. Our successful business men study business, and no less true is it, that our successful teachers study teaching. Let not any teacher throw aside this book, with the idea that it may do some good to teachers who are in the schoolroom for eight or ten months in the year, but for a teacher of three or four months work it will be of no service. 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.