Excerpt from School Management: And the Principles and Practice of Teaching; With an Appendix Containing the Statutory Provisions of 1896 Relating to Continuation Classes, Duties of Teachers, Agreements, Etc;, And the Courses of Study for High and Public Schools The following pages are the outcome of several years' experience and observation as a teacher, and of a careful study of many of the best books on systems of education and on the science of pedagogy. The aim has been to prepare a volume especially adapted to the wants of Canadian teachers in High and Public Schools, and to present, in an intelligible and scientific way, the broad outlines and essential characteristics of School Management and the principles and practice of teaching. Many well- known features of our educational system render it unnecessary for the purposes of the teachers of this Province to discuss, at any great length, several topics that find a legitimate place in standard works of the kind that are designed for use in England or in the United States. The fact that in Ontario every candidate for a position as teacher is required to take a course of professional training, will be a sufficient excuse for omitting many details and useful illustrations that are readily and fully brought to notice in the County Model Schools, the Normal Schools, and the School of Pedagogy. It should also be recollected that our High and Public Schools are placed under the supervision of Inspectors whose scholarship and practical acquaintance with education enable teachers to receive officially from them timely suggestions that might otherwise call for consideration in a book on the government of schools. 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.