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Excerpt from Syllabus for Secondary Schools, 1910 It may assist some to point out that the syllabus in each field contains three lines of analysis; that the general surveys contain two of these lines; that every student should be thoroughly familiar with the general surveys including even the dates; that every student in the class should be able to show some fair understanding of each topic in the second analysis and should be able to relate it both to preceding and subsequent topics. Within the broad horizon thus indicated, teachers ought to find and to use a large freedom. A teacher of even moderate skill ought sometimes boldly to omit or rapidly pass over certain portions of a syllabus. By the use of type lessons, i. E. The selection of one settlement, one battle, one political or military campaign for intensive study, he may often impart to pupils enthusiasm and a power to study other topics for themselves. Indeed in ideal history teaching, the variety of the work would be limited only by the number of students in the class. Attention is also directed to the use of the starred topics for the three hour courses in ancient and English history. 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 technology 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.