Excerpt from The Training of Teachers The first thing to be considered is the fact that the train ing of teachers, as the phrase is w understood, had pre viously been wholly neglected throughout the country. Teachers had other preparation for their work than their natural aptitude for the art, their kwledge of the subjects which they taught, and such practical lessons as they learned in their school rooms. As respects their academic prepa ration, they presented, as a class, a very motley appearance, as a cursory view of the schools of the country will abun dantly Show. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.