CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURse,-edited BY W. AND R. CHAMBERS. INFANT EDUCATION FROM TWO TO SIX YEARS OF AGE. APPLICABLE TO THE INFANT SCHOOL AND THE NURSERY. FOURTH EDITION. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS; AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1837. MATRAND POLLEGE LIESITY 1871, Oct. 4. Gift of Wm. Channing Gannett, of Boston. 1.26.1860.) EDINBURGH PRINTED BY W. AND R. CHAMBERS 19, WATERLOO PLACE. NOTICE. THE following work, although necessarily entering into the details of an Infant School, will not be duly appreciated if it shall be mistaken for an Infant School Book exclusively. With the exception of a few matters of Infant School arrangement, the whole volume may be used to train even a single child in a nursery, under the care of a judicious mother or governess. This will at once appear, when it is considered that the First Section contains the general principle of Infant Training,-the Second describes the Apparatus, which will be found as useful in the nursery as in the Infant School,—the Third, with the exception of classification and monitors, arranges the instruction of a week, which a mother or governess may, if she pleases, adopt in private tuition, besides embodying the requisite intellectual lessons, and the Fourth presents those moral lessons which every child requires, whether alone or in school. Indeed, nothing will more tend to imbue the mind of the private Infant Instructor with the requisite feelings and qualifications, than familiarity with the entire Infant School System, as set forth in this volume; or will better enable such instructor to impart with full effect the Infant School lessons to the private pupil. If several neighbouring families could agree that their children should meet in the best adapted of their houses for training under one person, a nearer approximation would be made to what may be called the social advantages of an Infant School. But even to parents in the country, where such co-operation is impossible, this volume is confidently offered, as a directory of Infant Education generally. It remains to be added, that, besides the liberal extracts made, with permission, from the publications of Mr Wilderspin, some passages are adopted, also with the concurrence of the author, though without formal quotation, from the work of Mr Simpson on National Education. |