THE SYSTEM

OF

INFANTS' SCHOOLS.

BY WILLIAM WILSON, A. M.

VICAR OF WALTHAMSTOW.

THIRD EDITION.

"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the
breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little."

ISAIAH, Chap. xxviii. ver. 9, 10.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GEORGE WILSON,

CORNER OF ESSEX STREET, STRAND.

1826.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

CONTENTS.

Introduction

CHAPTER I.-The moral Influence of the Superintend-

ant on a School of Infants

CHAPTER II. Subjects of Instruction in an Infants'

School

CHAPTER III.-Modes of Instruction in an Infants' School

CHAPTER IV.-The School Room

CHAPTER V.—The Arrangement and the Mode of Con-

ducting an Infants' School

CHAPTER VI.-The Teacher.

CHAPTER VII.-Expenses attendant on the Fitting-up

of an Infants' School

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Author of the following pages does not presume to think that the system which he has attempted to unfold can, with any justice, lay claim either to originality or perfection. His purpose will be sufficiently answered, if he shall have convinced those who may kindly peruse what he there offers to their notice, that the end which that system proposes is worthy of their consideration; and he will feel himself highly gratified, if the imperfection of his attempt should call forth the energies of others, on a subject which is, he conceives, at once of so extensive an importance, and capable of so many improvements.

Walthamstow.

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