Excerpt from Sixty-Five Years in the Life of a Teacher, 1841-1906 Ome description of the preparation for my life as a teacher, in the various stages of that profession, may not be altogether unin teresting or unprofitable to those Of my read ers who are engaged, or especially interested, in that laborious, but, to me, always attractive occupation. My parents, Jonathan Paxson and Mary Watson Magill, well-to-do farmers in the township of Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, felt that the earliest education of their children should, whenever practicable, be conducted at home, in the bosom of the family. I was born on the 24th of Septem ber, 1825. As children, beginning at the age of two or three years, my brother, four sisters. 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.