ON TEACHING THE DEAF AND DUMB TO SPEAK. 317 
As the pupil will be tauglit toread, to fpeak, to write 
and underftand things at once, the teacher fhould force 
him to leave no name unpronounced, unwritten, or un- 
read; and the pupil fhould be, at the fame time, taught to 
obferve the motions made by the organs. of fpeech in his: 
preceptor, and likewife to examine his own ina glafs, and 
to draw the obje&, which may be done in a book either 
arranged according to the ufe of the thing, or put promif- 
cuoufly with its name written under; and if the word be: 
incorrectly {pelled, to write it properly befides, or look in 
one of the corrected. dictionaries. All thefe methods will 
imprefs his mind fo ftrongly, that he will feldom have oc- 
eafion to refer to his book; and by this method he will 
alfo attain toa great proficiency in drawing... 
The actions and paflions fhould be acted to the pupil, 
and no movement made without fhewing its. meaning, 
and noting it down by writing, that words may increafe 
in exact proportion to the increafe of knowledge, and the 
progrefs which a ftudent will make by. this method will in. 
a fhort time be aftonifhing: 
If a teacher were to undertake the inftru€tion of feveral 
at once, which would indeed be moft advifeable, it would: 
be exceedingly proper to procure as many prints or draw-: 
ings of common objeéts as could be had, and even of the 
fame objects in different poftures and pofitions, with the 
name and action written beneath, and thefe arranged un- 
der different heads according to their relation to each other. 
The walls of the room might be covered with them, 
fereens, port-folios and. books alfo contain others, to 
which they might conftantly have accefs. Colours 
ought alfo to be painted in fquares, with their names at-. 
tached,. after them the fhades and the various colours ob- 
tained by mixing fimple bodies. They ought alfo to go 
through various courfes of natural hiftory, natural and ex- 
perimental 
