Excerpt from Fifty-Third Annual Report for the Year Ended September 30th, 1914 The aim of the teacher of the deaf in developing a knowledge of language in his pupils is to follow, as nearly as possible, the manner in which the little hearing child acquires his knowledge in the natural way. All our methods and systems are based on the laws governing the acquisition of language by normal children. 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.