The Infant System eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 434 pages of information about The Infant System.

The Infant System eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 434 pages of information about The Infant System.

It will be seen from what has been said that the plan of the children marching from one post to the other, is the very thing for infants, as exercising and developing their locomotive powers, a thing exceedingly desirable for young children.  The great error of the old infant system, or in other words, the dame-school plan, was the keeping the pupils rivetted to their seats; here they are marching from one place to another, and get ting food for every sense.  Take as another example the picture of the trades; the monitor says to his little pupils as they come up.  What does a fishmonger sell, the answer is, fishes of many sorts, such as salmon, cod, herring, and mackerel.  Q. What does a mason do?  A. Cut stones into their proper shapes, polish some sorts, and cut ornaments on others.  Q. What does a hatter sell?  A. Hats, for men, women, and little children.  Q. What does a cooper do?  A. Mend casks and make them.  Q. What does a butcher mean?  A. One that sells beef, mutton, pork, &c.  Q. What do they call butchers in Scotland?  A. Fleshers.  Q. What does a blacksmith mean?  A. One that makes different things from iron, and sometimes shoes horses.  Q. What does a fruiterer mean?  A. A person that sells all sorts of fruits, such as apples, pears, plums, cherries, gooseberries, strawberries, &c.  Q. What does a distiller mean?  A. A man that makes rum, brandy, whiskey, and other liquors.  Q. What does a grocer mean?  A. A man that sells tea, coffee, sugar, spices, and many other things.  Q. What does a carpenter mean?  A. A man that cuts up wood, makes benches; it was a carpenter made our gallery.  Q. What does a turner mean?  A. A man who makes snuff-boxes, bed-posts; It was a turner who made the balls on our arithmeticon.  Q. What does a tallow-chandler mean?  A. A man that buys and sells candles of different sorts.  Q. What does milliner mean?  A. A person that makes ladies’ caps, tippets, and things for little children.  Q. What does a dyer mean?  A. A man that dyes cloths of different colours.  Q. What does a druggist mean?  A. One that sells drugs of different kinds, such as nutgalls, alum, bark, &c.  Q. What does wheelwright mean?  A. A man that makes carts, wheelbarrows, &c.  Q. What does a shoe-maker do?  A. Makes shoes for men and women and little boys and girls.  Q. What does a printer do?  A. Print lessons for little children to read; newspapers and books for men to read.  Q. What does a coach-maker make?  A. Coaches, gigs, omnibuses, cabs, and things of that sort.  Q. What does a bookseller do?  A. Sells books of different sorts, pictures, paper, sealing-wax, &c.  Q. What does a bricklayer do?  A. Builds walls, the brick part of houses, &c.  Q. What does a linen-draper do?  A. Sells linen to make shirts, printed calico to make frocks, and many other things of that kind.  Q. What does a cabinet-maker do?  A. Makes tables, chairs, and presses, and other things to furnish houses with.  Q. What does a brewer do?  A. Makes ale and porter.  Q. What does a painter mean?  A. One who paints insides of houses, doors, window shutters, and such things.  Q. What does a bookbinder do?  A. Puts covers on books.

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