Excerpt from Exercises and Illustrations on the Black-Board: Furnishing an Easy and Expeditious Method of Giving Instruction; Designed for the Use of Common Schools For writing on the board, chalk or crayons are used; and it would be well to have brass holders for these, so as to require the same position of the fingers, as in holding a pen. The holders are so made as to be easily enlarged or contracted at pleasure, and thus fitted to the chalk. The chalk and holders should be carefully preserved in a box. There should also be two or more articles for clearing the board, made of sheep-skin, tanned with the wool on, and so made as to be conveniently used in rubbing out Operations on the board. Teachers may direct their pupils to commence at any part of the work which they choose. When they take up a particular subject, make them understand the whole ground they go over; for pupils are apt to be in hurry, and are inclined to pass over the first or elementary principles superficially. The boy is anxious to study arithmetic, before be under stands the meaning of the words in which the sums are stated. The girl wishes to study grammar, before she can read a sentence correctly. As, in the building of a house, the foundation should be first laid deep and strong; so, in the education of children, the rudiments should be first taught, and thoroughly taught, before proceeding to higher studies. 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.