TO TEACHERS AND PUPILS. 



THE object of every tutor should be to convey the knowledge the pupil 



requires in as simple, clear, accurate, and concise a manner as possible. 



The object of every pupil should be to acquire the knowledge imparted 



by the tutor, not in words only, but in ideas ; so that the information 



.1 should not be of a superficial character a mere catalogue of 



scientific names but an acquaintance with the phenomena of Nature, and 



net and comprehensive idea of the laws which regulate them. 



.jitly remarked that " a tutor should not be continually 

 thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil as if he were pouring it 

 through a funi :ter having put the lad, like a young horse, on a 



.-fore him, to observe 1 : i,k- to perform, 



should, according to the extent ot his eai luee him to taste, to 



distinguish, and to find out things for himself ; sometimes opening the 

 way, at other times leaving it for him to open ; and by abating or in- 

 creasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his 

 pupil." 



inquiry A\ill follow, and the consequence 



will be a Lrratify that curiosity by acquiring knowledge. The. 



ignorant or m n quite as mm-li as the 



unproduet on the road-side. In the following Catechisms the 



pupil is led step by ste; -1 easy method, to acquire the 



knowledge . is still further elucidated 



by numerous diagrams nts. 



