This book is intended to detail, in a familiar and practical manner, a system of arrangements for the
organization and management of a school, based on the employment, so far as is practicable, of
Moral Influences, as a means of effecting the objects in view. Its design is, not to bring forward new
theories or new plans, but to develop and explain, and to carry out to their practical applications
such principles as, among all skillful and experienced teachers, are generally admitted and acted
upon. Of course it is not designed for the skillful and experienced themselves, but it is intended to
embody what they already know, and to present it in a practical form for the use of those who are
beginning the work, and who wish to avail themselves of the experience which others have
acquired.