PRACTICAL EDUCATIONISTS AND THEIR SYSTEMS OF TEACHING. BY JAMES LEITCH, PRINCIPAL OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND NORMAL SCHOOL, GLASGOW. GLASGOW: JAMES MACLEHOSE, 61 ST. VINCENT STREET. PREFACE. THIS book is the product of my official duties as Principal of a Normal School, the various Essays being part of a series of lectures delivered by me to the students in training. My object in drawing them up was to give increased interest to the study of education as a science, by connecting its principles with the educationists or teachers who originated them, or first wrought them out successfully in practice. My efforts in this direction have not been suggested by the recent outcry for the instruction of normal students in the science of their adopted profession; but have been carried out during the whole period of my |