Excerpt from The Training System, Moral Training School, and Normal Seminary for Preparing School-Trainers and Governesses The Training System must be taken and judged of as whole, and not in its disjointed parts. Some of itspractical points may indeed be successfully pursued apart, but only as one entire machine for training the) child can it be responsible for results. Twenty odd years ago, when we first published the principles of the Training System, after having had eleven years' experience of its effects in three schools, we fearlessly asserted that moral Training Schools were the great desiderata for the cultivation of youth. 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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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. TESTIMONY OF CLERGYMEN. FROM A MINISTER OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. 'If I have succeeded in expressing myself simply in my sermons, and thus making an impression on my hearers, I must confess I owe it all to my course of training in the Normal Seminary.' A MINISTER OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND thus writes: 'First.--I do decidedly consider myself benefited by my attendance at the Normal Seminary, both, I am inclined to think, as regards my pulpit duties, and particularly as regards my labours among the young. 'Secondly.--I have no hesitation in saying, that all young men studying for the ministry would find It to be their own interest to avail themselves of the practical experience m teaching which the training system so well affords, in order to their future usefulness and success as teachers of the gospel both among young and old. 'Thirdly.--I would say that much has been done within the last twenty years, for the intellectual and moral culture of the rising generation, under the various systems or modifications of systems, which have been successively brought forward; and yet, without at all undervaluing these (they were generally great steps forward, ) I would unhesitatingly say that in none of them is there the same security so distinctly given for a sound useful education, as that which the training system presents; a system which I hope will, ere long, have granted to it the prominence it justly demands, and the beneficial and substantial effects of which I hope yet to see developing themselves in the high intellectual attainments, and upraised moral excellence of our people generally. Such briefly are the views which I am led to entertain of that system of moral training, to advance which you have laboured so..