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 Page'» Theory and Practice cf Teaching. 



THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING; 



OR TUB 



MOTIVES OF GOOD SCHOOL-KEEPING. 



BY DAVID PAGE, A.M., 



LATE PRINCIPAL OP THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, NEW YORK. 



*1 received a few days since your 'Theory and Practice, &c.,' and a capital iheun 

 and capital practice it is. I have read it with unmingled delight. Even if I shcold 

 look through a critic's microscope, I shoidd hardly find a single sentiment to difaent 

 from, and certainly not one to condemn. The chapters on Prizes and on Corporal 

 Punishment are truly admirable. They will exert a most salutary influence. So of'tho 

 views tparsim on moral and religious instruction, which you so earnestly and fe-.-lingly 

 Insist upon, and yet within true Protestant limits. It is a grand book, and I thank 

 UkaVEN that you have written it." — Hon. Horace Mann, Secretary of the Hoard oj 

 Education in Massachusetts. 



u Were it our business to examine teachers, we would never dismiss a candidate 

 without naming this book. Other things being equal, we would greatly prefer a teacher 

 who has read it and speaks of it with enthusiasm. In one indifferent to such a work, 

 we should certainly have little confidence, however he might appear in other respects. 

 Would that every teacher employed in Vermont this winter had 'he spirit of this book 

 in his bosom, its lessons impressed upon his heart!" — Vermont Lkronicle. 



" I am pleased with and commend this work to the attention of school teachers, and 

 >,hos<! who intend to embrace that most estimable profession, for light and instruction 

 to guide and govern them in the discharge of their delicate and important duties." — 

 JV*. S. Benton, Superintendent of Common Schools, State of Jfeio York. 



Hon. S. Young says, "It is altogether the best book on this subject 1 have evei 

 Been." 



President North, of Hamilton College, says, " I have read it with all that absorbing 

 ■elf-denying interest, which in my younger days was reserved for fiction and poetry. I 

 am delighted with the book." 



Hon. Marcus S. Reynold* says, "It will do great good by showing the Teacher what 

 •houid be his qualifications, and what may justly be required and expected of him." 



"1 wish you would send an agent through the several towns of this State with 

 Pages 'Theory and Practice of Teaching,' or take some other way of bringing this 

 valuable book to the notice of every family and of every teacher. I should be rejoiced 

 to SBC the principles which it presents as to the motives and methods of good school- 

 keeping carried ut in every school-room ; and as nearly as possible, in the style is 

 whish Mr. Page illustrates them in his own practice, as the devoted and accomplished 

 Principal of your State Normal School." — Henry Barnard, Superintendent of Common 

 Schools for the State of Rhode Island. 



"The 'Theory and Practice of Teaching,' by D. P. Page, is one of the best books of 

 the kind 1 have ever met with. In it the theory and practice of the teacher's duties 

 Bre clenrlv explained and happily combined. The style is easy and familiar, and the 

 suggestions it contains are plain, practical, and to the point. To teachers especially »t 

 trill furnish very important aid in discharging the duties of .heir high and responsible 

 frofeKion."— Roger S. Howard, Superintendent of Common Schools, Oravg t Co* VL 



