lesson-posts

Updated: May 2, 2025

Letters and spelling from the lesson-posts. Play. Gallery; repeat the addition and subtraction tables. Afternoon. Prayer and hymn. Multiplication table; the monitor asking the question, and the children answering. Reading lessons. Play. Gallery; numeration and spelling with brass figures and letters. Morning. Prayer and hymn. Letters and spelling. Play.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

Scripture pictures on the lesson-posts, and questions on them in the gallery. Morning. Prayer and hymn. Letters and spelling. Play. Gallery; lessons on the transposition frame, and on geometry from the brass instrument. Religious instruction should have a prominent part in the business of every day, and especially so every Saturday morning.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

The children afterwards repeat the Lord's prayer, and then sing a hymn; for instance, the following: Immediately after this they proceed to their lessons; which are fixed to what are called lesson-posts. To each of these posts there is a monitor, who is provided with a piece of cane for a pointer.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

The master and mistress should reside on the premises Interior arrangements A school and its furniture Lesson-posts and lessons The younger children should not be separated from the older Play-ground arrangements Rotary swing Its management and advantages

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

The master and mistress should reside on the premises Interior arrangements A school and its furniture Lesson-posts and lessons The younger children should not be separated from the older Play-ground arrangements Rotatory swing Its management and advantages. "Wisdom seeks the most desirable ends in the use of the most appropriate means."

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

Prayer and hymn. From the lesson-posts epitome of geometry and natural history. Gallery; brass letters and figures. Extempore teaching on men and things, taking care that all such teaching shall be illustrated by substances. Morning. Prayer and hymn. Letters and spelling. Play. Gallery; lessons on geography, maps, globes, &c. Afternoon. Prayer and hymn.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age