MANUAL OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT: FOR THE USE OF Teachers, Students, & Pupil-Teachers. BY THOMAS MORRISON, M.A., RECTOR OF THE FREE CHURCH TRAINING COLLEGE, GLASGOW. THIRD EDITION. GLASGOW: WILLIAM HAMILTON, 33 BATH STREET; AND PREFACE. THE hints contained in the following pages were originally designed for the use of the students attending the Glasgow Free Church Training College. Observing that the want of a textbook, which the Students might consult at their leisure, interfered, to a very considerable extent, with the practical efficiency of lectures on School Management the author compiled this Manual, which is now given to the public in the hope that the results of a somewhat large experience, therein recorded, may be of some service to young and inexperienced teachers. It has been the author's aim to render the hints clear, and, at the same time, thoroughly practical. Nothing has been set down which experience has not proved attainable in elementary schools. From the plan of the work, there may appear more repetitions than are necessary, but it was deemed advisable, even at the risk of somewhat marring mere literary effect, to treat each subject of instruction by itself. Exercises, taken for the most part from the papers set at the examinations held under the authority of the Committee of Council on Education, have been appended to almost all the chapters, with the view of directing attention to the points considered important by the Inspectors of schools, who prepare these papers, and whose great experience and enlightened views enable them to propose questions of a very suggestive nature. The author has availed himself of all the sources of information within his reach-in no case, so far as he is aware, without due acknowledgment. He acknowledges himself largely indebted to the works of Mr. Stow, and to the brief but remarkably suggestive "Prize Essay on Education," by the Rev. David Smith. GLASGOW, January, 1859. In the second edition, considerable alterations have been made in the chapters on Registration, Organization, and the Alphabet. Paragraphs have been added to some of the other chapters on points which were omitted in the first edition. It is hoped that these alterations and additions will render the Manual more useful to the class for whom it is intended. GLASGOW, April, 1860. In the present edition, it has not been considered necessary to make any alterations on the text, but an Appendix has been added on the Revised Code, a subject of some importance to teachers. GLASGOW, Sept., 1863. T. M. CONTENTS. PAGE I. Object of Education. 2. Importance of a knowledge of Physical Laws. 3. Importance of a knowledge of Mental and Moral Laws. 4. Develop- ment of Mental Powers. 5. All Minds alike in kind, but different in degree. 6. Importance of this fact in Classification. 7. And in Dis- cipline. 8. Study of Mental Philosophy. 9. Religious Education. Trained man. 13. The Teacher should be an Earnest man. 14. The Teacher should be Cheerful and Hopeful. 15. The Teacher should be Simple. 16. The Teacher should be Lively and Energetic. 17. The Teacher should be Patient. 18. Coleridge's lines on Education. 19. The 20. The School site. 21. The Size and Form of the School. 22. Heat- ing and Ventilation of the School. 23. School Furniture. 24. The 25. Advantages of Registration. 26. Advantages of Registration nation- ally. 27. Register of Admission and Withdrawal. 28. Register of 33. Classification, Principle of. 34. Classification in English. 35. Classi- fication in Arithmetic. 36. Classification in Geography. 37. Register 42. Employment of Pupil Teachers. 43. Branches to be Taught. 44. Organization of an Infant School. 45. Organization of a Juvenile School-Boys. 46. Organization of a Juvenile School- Girls. 47. Organization of a Senior School-Boys. 48. Organization of a Senior School Girls. 49. Organization of a Village School- Boys. 50. Organization of a Village School-Girls. 51. Tripartite |