The normal; or, Methods of teaching the common branches, orthoepy, orthography, grammar, geography, arithmetic and elocution .. . hough the special methods of only the branch-es mentioned on the title page are given in thisvolume, the General Method described in connec-tion with teaching ad\ranced classes in Grammarin Part III, is equally applicable to the HigherBranches. Fellow Teachers, should any one of you make apanorama of the school under your special charge,or the system of schools under your general super-vision, painted on successive pages in word pic-tures, as I have endeavored to do
The normal; or, Methods of teaching the common branches, orthoepy, orthography, grammar, geography, arithmetic and elocution .. . hough the special methods of only the branch-es mentioned on the title page are given in thisvolume, the General Method described in connec-tion with teaching ad\ranced classes in Grammarin Part III, is equally applicable to the HigherBranches. Fellow Teachers, should any one of you make apanorama of the school under your special charge,or the system of schools under your general super-vision, painted on successive pages in word pic-tures, as I have endeavored to do, please let meknow; I shall wish to obtain a sight of it. I have already been amply compensated for thelabor and expense bestowed in the preparation and VI PREFACE. publication of the Normal; and should the bound volume meet with the same cordial reception from my brethren, which has greeted the several Parts as they have successively appeared, I shall surely have abundant reason to feel that my labor has not been in vain. a. h. South-Western Normal School,Lebanon J 0., Jan. 1859. PART I, CLASSIFIED KNOWLEDGE: OR, -^ Knowledge is that whicli is already known by theindividual, or which he may certainly know bystudy. In a more general sense, it is that whichis already known by any one of the human species;and hence may be known by many others. All else is mystery. The limits of knowledgeare constantly enlarging, but mystery, instead ofdiminishing, becomes still more enlarged. Myste-rious, unanswerable problems rise on every every new fact that is acquired by accident orinvestigation, many new mysteries present them-selves to the inquirer. This will be found to betrue in every direction. The man of few thoughtshas few difficulties or doubts; the idiot, none. Butas the boundaries of thought increase by its ownactivity, innumerable queries spring up on everyside, some of which are generalized with previousqueries and their answers, and are thus sol
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