Excerpt from The Teachers ABC: Being Ordinary Thoughts of an Ordinary Teacher in an Ordinary Schoolroom Every idea expressed in the following pages has occurred to the writer during actual lessons in his class - room. They are nothing more than pass through the mind of every teacher at some time, but they have been put down in order that the fleeting thought which seldom returns in precisely the same way, may be preserved. If an old ideal is brought back to mind by perusing the following pages, or if a young teacher gets a piece of experience second-hand, the object of publication will be achieved. 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.