The portion of sitting-room that I have allowed for each child is twelve inches.  The scholars should sit all round the school room, with their backs against the wall; double seats should be round the sides of the school, like the two first seats in the gallery.  A school according to the engraved plan, will be found large enough for all the purposes of an infant school; but if it is wished to be more commodious, it may be of the same length as the plan, and instead of twenty-two feet, may be made thirty feet wide; this will hold as many children as ought to be collected together in one place, and as many as any man and woman can possibly do justice to if it be any longer, it will be difficult for all the children to hear the master.  An oblong building is the cheapest, on account of the roof.  Economy has been studied in the plan given, without any thing being added that is unnecessary.  This, of course, is a matter of opinion, and may be acted upon or not, just as it suits those who may choose to build.  The master’s house in the plan, it will be seen, projects a little into the play-ground, to afford him the opportunity of seeing the children at play while he is at dinner, that he may notice any improper conduct on the part of the children, and mention it when the accounts of the day are made up.

As children are very apt to get into danger, even when at school, it becomes expedient to exercise the utmost vigilance, in order to prevent the possibility of accident; for where two hundred children are assembled together, the eldest not seven years of age, it is most certain that if there be danger, some will get into.  For this reason, all the doors on the premises should be so secured, that the children cannot swing them backwards and forwards; if they are not, they will get their fingers pinched, or greater accidents may occur.  The forms also should be so placed that the children may not be likely to fall over them.  Every thing, in short, should be put out of the way, that will be likely to occasion any danger.  The seats should not be more than nine inches high; and for the smaller children six inches; and should be eleven or twelve inches wide; and fixed all round to the walls.

The master’s desk should be placed at the end of the school, where the class-room is.  By this means he will be able to see the faces of all the children, and they can see him, which is absolutely necessary.  They may then be governed by a motion of his hand.

The furniture necessary for the school consists of a desk for the master; seats for the children; lesson-stands; stools for the monitors; slates and pencils; pictures and lessons on scriptural subjects; pictures and lessons on natural history; alphabets and spelling lessons; brass letters and figures, with boards for them; geometrical figures, &c.; and the transposition-frame, or arithmeticon, as it has been called.  To these may added little books, &c.  The particular use of these articles will be shewn in the succeeding pages.