Excerpt from Plans for Busy Work: Prepared by the Boston Primary Teachers' Association The primary teacher must solve a double problem. She must not only teach the children how to read, write, and Cipher under her guidance, but she must also teach them how to study independently, so that they may be prepared to use books for themselves. While the teacher of higher grades may content her self with explaining and assigning the lessons, leaving the pupil to perform his tasks unaided, the primary teacher must direct the period of study as well as the recitation and the teaching exercises. In an ordinary school of from forty to sixty pupils, not more than fifteen or twenty should be reciting at once; the others must busy themselves at the desk, table, or blackboard. Our problem is to devise suitable and profitable occupation for these pupils. 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.