A.

Absence, statistics of, 33, 189. Evils of, 36,
48, 58, 79, 198. See Attendance. Ancient
method of preventing, 59. Unreasonable-
ness of, 152. Not to be allowed as a re-
ward, 290.

Abstracts of Returns, good effects of, 10.
Should be distributed to every district, 157.
The reading of, recommended, 228. Ap-
pealed to, 238. See Graduated Tables.
Academy, effect of an, upon a Common
School, 73. See Private Schools.
Adams, John, sentiment of, 27.

Alphabet, anecdotes of the late learning of, 50.
Apparatus, essential to thorough instruction,
85, 125, 167. Private subscription for, 197,
246. Holbrook's, 227.

Apportionment of school moneys. See Dis-
tribution.

Appropriations, for public schools, in Boston, 9.
For education should have precedence, 10,
12. Large, for education, enhances the value
of property, 11. Should be liberal, 23, 51, 54,
55, 81, 82, 94, 105, 137, 153, 154, 183, 195,
201, 204, 230, 277, 307. Large, for school-
houses, 150. Great increase of, 286.
Arithmetic, different systems of, noticed, 1.
Method of examination in, 9, 284. Method
of teaching, 126, 275. Too much attended
to, 165, 170. Old method of teaching, re-
ferred to, 318.

Arnold, Dr. Thomas, quoted, 18.
Ashley Fund, 201.

Assistants, Female, how employed in Salem,
42. See Female Teachers.
Association of Teachers, account of an, 122.
See Meetings.

Astronomy, written examination in, 2, 284.
Attendance, irregular, ill effects of, 13, 24, 68,
80, 84, 267. Exclusion for non-, 26, 101, 107,
177, 198, 271. Improvement in, 25, 51, 55,
110. Punctual, importance of, 122, 171.
The basis of a just apportionment of school
money, 215, 230. Enforced by law, 216.
Effect of exclusion for non-, 276, 277.
Prompt, method of promoting, 297.

B.

Barrow, Isaac, anecdote of, 51.
Bible, in schools, 25, 27, 289, 291, 302, 306.
The reading of the, not sectarianism, 166.
Blackboards, use of, commended, 1, 49, 80, 109,
130, 170, 219, 277, 292.

Books, deficiency of, in schools, 16. Agents
for selling, annoyance from, 39. Uniformity
of, necessary, 96, 183, 224, 232. Should be
furnished in season, 141. New, stimulus of,
160. Old, exchanged for new, by authors
and publishers, 161. Difficulty of obtaining,
200, 233.

Boston Schools, examination of, compared with
those of New Bedford, 282,

Boys, large, not attending school, annoyance
from, 262.

Branches of study, to be judiciously selected,
28. Attempt to exclude the higher, 288.

Certificates, of approval, to be insisted on, 191.
Given to incompetent teachers, 302.
Character, our national, remarks on, 314.
Children, difference in the conscientiousness of,
3. Not to be sent to school too young, 50,
76, 318. Not making progress, to be in-
quired after, 175. Worse cared for than the
lower animals, 271. Should enter school
when the term begins, 293. Small, need
good teachers, 296. True method of treat-
ing, 307. Must be interested in what they
study, 318. Colored, 78.

Choate, Amos, Esq., donation of, for prizes, de-
clined after an experiment of three years,
40, 42.

Clarke, Adam, anecdote of, 51.
Classification of schools, good effects of the,
11, 26, 154, 305, 312. Preferable to division
of districts, 259. Of teachers, 255.
Clergymen, commended for attention to schools,
74. Denounced as unfit for school committee
men, 280.

Colburn's Arithmetic, compared with others, 1.
Colored children, in public schools, 78.
Committees, examining, of Boston, how ap-
pointed; method of examination pursued by,
2. Should be fearless, 116. Of districts,
should visit the schools, 176.

Common School Journal, duty of towns to sub-
scribe for, 16, 104.
Common Schools, importance of, 111, 157, 162,
208, 215, 220, 234, 242, 249. Evidence of
improvement in, 135, 234. Not what they
ought to be, 161, 291. Want of interest in,
995 Undervalued and neglected, 225, 238.
Object of, 234. Our best monuments, 270.
Sufficiency of, for most purposes, 309.
Compensation of teachers, to be liberal, 29, 35,
161, 238. Of female teachers insufficient,
50, 89, 90.

Composition, English, examination in, 45. In-
struction in, 121, 130, 167, 251, 309. Im-
portance of, 286. By very young pupils,
134.

Conscience. See Moral Instruction and Man-

ners.

Constitution, the, and laws, should be studied
in schools, 54, 266.
Convention, Common School, at Barre, 114.
Corporal Punishment, remarks on, 6, 48, 74,
174, 183, 303. Substitutes for, 7, 39. Dis-
approved, 15, 161, 174, 299, 305, 308. Dim-
inution of, 37, 92, 93, 262. Diminished by
the introduction of Music, 67, 95, 109. Dis-
pensed with, 92, 94, 163, 168, 231, 290. Of-
fensive modes of, condemned, 124, 207, 302.
Statistics of, 260. See Discipline.
Correction, not to be made in anger, 160.

D.

Dancing schools, injurious to Common Schools,
96, 113, 120, 122.

Deficiency of books, 16, 174.
Discipline, mild, recommended, 15, 19, 24, 59,
66, 68, 82, 92, 95, 96, 98, 101, 103, 107, 110,
118, 121, 122, 134, 136, 141, 147, 148, 151,
160, 164, 168, 181, 183, 218, 219, 230, 237,
240, 241, 258, 271, 300, 308, 314, 316. Pre-
ventive policy in, 39. General remarks on,
64, 166. Must be enforced, 79, 91, 136, 138,
145, 146, 148, 150, 156, 159, 163, 174, 179,
211, 253, 259, 261, 265, 273, 285, 287, 299,
302, 304. Failure in, 72, 133, 309. Amelio-
rated, 94, 133, 168, 291. See Corporal Pun-
ishment.

Distribution of school money, 14. In larger
proportion to small districts, 16, 118. In-
equality in the various modes of, 123.
Should be based on attendance, 215, 230,
278. According to families, unequal, 318.
New plan for, alluded to, 319.

Districts, large, approved, 26, 154, 311. Should
select suitable prudential committees, 241.
Small, disapproved, 245, 311.
Drawing, recommended, 47, 80, 235. See
Maps and Blackboards.

E.

Education, the true basis of, 16. Of teachers,
recommended, 19. See Teachers and Nor-
mal Schools. Defective method of, 23. Re-
ligious, of the first settlers, 25. Importance
of, 77, 78, 84, 85, 87, 91, 94, 100, 102, 106,
136, 180, 234, 244. General remarks on, 91.
Improvements in, 94, 95, 187. The right of
every child to, 108. The cause of, neglected,
211. Low standard of, 213. Opposed by
some, 227, 271. Influence of, on a district,
241. Early, importance of an, 245. True
object of, 260. General, a noble enterprise,
263. Cheaper than ignorance, 302. Causes

for want of progress in, 306. A good En-
glish, undervalued, 309.
Elementary studies, slighted, 197.
Emulation, ill effects of, 9. Disapproved, 137,
276. See Prizes.

Examination, of schools, should be conducted
by the committee, 18, 162. In Latin, math-
ematics, &c., how conducted, 45. Method
of, 69. Not to be dodged by pupils, 81, 113,
129, 131. By printed questions, tried and
approved, 2, 100, 104, 117, 282, 285. Not to
be made an exhibition, 107, 109, 252, 253,
287. Imposition in regard to, 115, 162. Of
several schools together, 152, 231. Well at-
tended, 159, 206. Well conducted, 176,297.
Examination of teachers, 25, 72, 75, 115, 150,
162, 185, 209, 215, 234. Should precede
their engagement, 209. By written questions
and answers, 277. How facilitated, 278.
Irregularly conducted, 288.

Example of teachers, 16, 18, 27, 29, 132, 133,
135. Importance of, 232. See Teachers.
Exhibitions, moral limits of, 253.
Expulsion of a pupil, 83,

F.

Factory law, evasion of, 147.
Female teachers, tried and approved, 7, 13, 15,
19, 25, 37, 50, 76, 89, 93, 102, 103, 118, 121,
128, 140, 154, 164, 165, 167, 174, 196, 200,
216, 219, 220, 237, 243, 248, 249, 259, 262,
273, 276, 296, 317. See Winter Schools.

G.

Geography, examination in, by written ques-
tions, 2, 46, 282. Remarks on the proper
teaching of, 3, 139, 194. Mode of examina-
tion in, 47. A good recitation in, 54. Taught
from the blackboard, 131, 144. See Black-
boards. Faulty recitation of, 241. Faulty
mode of teaching, 320.
Globes, want of, 225.
Government. See Discipline and Corporal
Punishment. Remarks on, 261. Example
of good, 274. Of a school, 179.
Graduated Tables, good effects of, 11, 14. No-
tices of, 17, 75, 126, 135. Emulation among
towns excited by the, 81, 82, 83, 85, 88, 90,
112, 156, 160, 166, 169, 173, 185, 187, 188,
195, 201, 211, 213, 222, 224, 228, 240, 244,
250, 291, 306.

Grammar, mode of examination in, 2, 46, 284.
Defective teaching of, 4, 126, 139, 314. Use
of, 51. Taught orally, 170. A test of teach-
ers, 224.

Grammar schools, examination of, 2, 47.
H.

Harmony, among schools, 291.
High schools, great importance of, 11, 19, 55,
94, 114, 140, 197, 246. For females, in New-
buryport, 33. For both sexes, in Brighton,
56. In Cambridge, 61. Arguments in favor
of a, 127, 234. Should be free, 205. New,
proposed, 221, 250, 270.

Home, instruction at, 111, 121. See Parents.
Howitt's account of a school in England, 155.

I.

Improvement in teaching arithmetic and alge-
bra, 1. In schools, 99, 163, 185, 251, 257,