Excerpt from The North-Carolina Journal of Education, 1859, Vol. 2 There is no subject so imperfect ly taught in our schools generally as Arithmetic. Tron g notions and bad practices in teaching it seem to have been handed down from teacher to pupil, generation after generation. It is far worse taught, even in the same schools, than the higher branches of mathematics. Many a teacher pursues an excel lent system of instruction in Alge bra and Geometry, and yet fails in Arithmetic. The reason obvious ly is, that he was taught the form er correctly himself, but was never taught the latter. Arithmetic has never held in our schools its prep er place as a branch of a science. And consequently the great defect in teaching it is, that attention is paid to its practice and not to its principles. 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.