The Teacher and Parent: A Treatise Upon Common-school Education; Containing Practical Suggestions to Teachers and Parents |
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A. S. Barnes ANECDOTE answer arithmetic attention awaken Billy Gray black-board branches called cheerful circumstances common schools correct course Davies degree desirable discipline duties efforts error examination exer exercise feel Freddy gain Geography geography of Spain give Grammar habits happy heart illustration important impressions improvement influence instruction instructor interest judicious kind knowledge labor learner lessons Let the teacher letter Lord Brougham manner mental arithmetic mind mode Monteith's moral Natural Philosophy nature never NORTHEND object Old Farmer's Almanac orthography parents perform pleasant possess practice principles Prof promote proper prove pupils Quaker questions Reader receive recitation regard relation require rules salutary scholars school discipline school-room secure sentence slates Spanish dollar spelling spirit strive success taught teach tences tend text-book things thought tion trained true truth views volume whole wisely words write wrong young
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