PREFACE. SHOULD any apology appear to be due from us for adding to the list of books on School Management, we may say that the present Manual is designed rather to supplement these works than to supersede them. We have not attempted to enter exhaustively into all the principles of school management, from the schoolmaster's point of view, as has already been so ably done by writers like Mr. Currie, in his "Common School Education," and Doctor Joyce and Mr. Gill, in their books on "School Management; nor have we confined our attention to a somewhat general consideration of the duties of the voluntary school manager, as Canon Wenham has done in his excellent manual "The School Manager." Our aim has rather been to help managers to detect, to trace to their causes, and to remedy all those flaws in their schools which, in spite of precautions, are constantly recurring. We have thought that this purpose could best be accomplished by an indication of the more salient points requiring attention in the working of schools, with such explanation of principles only as has been needed to justify our recommendations. |