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Arithmetic for Young Children, is an able application of the philosophy of teaching to common purposes, and that on the important subject of Numbers; a science whose practical necessity we all admit, though in training the mind to distinctness of perception, and forming the character to habits of regularity, it is overlooked or slighted. The object in this capital elementary book, is to begin early, teach the child little, but let that little be learnt thoroughly ; so that, though the tool be small, the owner shall have it perfectly under his command. The plan of teaching is analogous to the mode by which arithmeticians suppose that the art of numeration was discovered. The mind is reached by the sight and touch ; instead of striving to convey abstract ideas to the child, the notions of numbers are impressed by making him actually reckon them : and what adds to the use of the plan is, that the pupil is unconscious of being taught.
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