ON

THE IMPORTANCE

OF

EDUCATING THE INFANT
POOR,

FROM THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS,

TO SEVEN YEARS.

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE

SPITALFIELDS INFANT SCHOOL,

AND THE

NEW SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION

THERE ADOPTED.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A REPLY TO THE STRICTURES OF DR. POLE, AND THOSE OF THE
EDINBURGH REVIEW, RESPECTING THE AUTHOR'S
MODE OF MANAGING THE CHILDREN.

PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN & R. MARSHALL,
Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate Street, and Sold
by THE AUTHOR, at the Infant School,
Quaker Street, Spitalfields.

1824.

Goyder, Printer, 415, Strand.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

Rules to be observed by the Parents of Children

admitted into the Spitalfields Infant School.

Rules for the Master and Mistress

On Order

A General Mode of Teaching the Alphabet, whereby

300 Children may say it in fifteen minutes

A Secoud Method of Teaching the Alphabet, both in

Printing and Writing

A Plan for Teaching the Tables of Arithmetic by

means of Inch Cubes of Wood

A Method of giving little Children bodily exercise,

improving their minds, and pleasing them at

the same time

Plan for Teaching Infant Children by the aid of

pictures

Joseph's Dream

On the Formation of Character

On the Increase of Juvenile Delinquency

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A number of Facts and Anecdotes

Play Ground

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On the Diseases of Children

Plan to prevent Accidents at School

On Rewards and Punishments

On Cleanliness

Dimensions of a School-room capable of containing

300 Infant Children.

On the ill consequences of Frightening Children

On the dangers Children are exposed to between

the ages of two and seven years

Qualifications of a Master and Mistress

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