Excerpt from Mathematics One of the first faculties which we should develop in the child, from the age when his cerebral activity wakens, is that of drawing. Nearly always, he has the instinctive taste for it, and we must encourage him in it, long before undertaking to teach him writing or reading. With this object, we should put a slate or a sheet of squared paper in his hands as a beginning, and place a pencil (when he is cleverer, a pen) between his little fingers and make him trace strokes at first; not the classical Sloping strokes, preparatory to sloping writing, but little lines following the direction of the lines on the squared paper, and very regularly spaced. 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.