Excerpt from The Infant Teacher's Assistant: For the Use of Schools, and Private Families or Scriptural and Moral Lessons for Infants With Observations on the Manner of Using Them The Compilers of the following pages having been engaged in Infant Education, from nearly the commencement of the Infant System, and having had to encounter many difficulties in the selection of appropriate Lessons for the use of their own Schools, they are desirous of facilitating Infant Instruction, by placing within the reach of Teachers the fruits of their own experience. The Compilers have been indebted to numerous sources for much of their matter; this they have interspersed with original Lessons, and such hints and remarks, as, in their judgment, appeared valuable for general adoption. As far as they know their own hearts, it is not a desire of dictating, but of being helpful to their fellow-labourers, which has induced them to come before the public, and should they be the means of aiding any in the developement of mind, or in the right direction of the rising thought, they desire to be thankful, and will endeavour to give to God the glory. The value of education depends upon its aim: if our exertions be limited to a preparation for the business of this life, those energies which are born for eternity, are obscured and lost. The soul of man can only flourish and breathe forth peace, and love, and humility, when grafted in Him, who hath said, "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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