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and to provide money to compensate intelligent Teachers.
We must therefore leave abstract discussions and come to
practical detail. My advice most emphatically is, to each
Commissioner and to each Board of School Commissioners, to
give all possible attention, and secure all attainable means to
building the Teacher's workshop; provide the necessary
working tools, putting everything into good order for success-
ful work, and then, with competent workmen and under vig-
ilant supervision, begin the work.

As soon as we have secured these material requisites, we
can begin. The Normal School, the Text-Book System,
School Libraries, District Meetings, Teachers Institutes and
Associations, High Schools and Colleges, will come in and
make complete the system of Public Instruction. So impor-
tant do I consider the School House, properly located and
well furnished, to be to any degree of success, that I would
recommend Schools to be open only six months in each year,
if necessary, that funds may be accumulated to erect proper
buildings.

But in this work we expect the co-operation of the citizens.
The women of the District must be enlisted in the good
cause. By contributions, by fairs, picnics and such like
means, funds can be raised, and neat School houses built, all
over the State, which will be the pride of each neighborhood,
and attract the attention of strangers to the zeal of the peo-
ple in the educational progress, and the determination of pa-
rents to secure for their children reasonable personal comforts
with the necessary aids and encouragements to the acquisition
of knowledge.

These ideas are expressed in a condensed tabular form in
my first Report to the General Assembly of Maryland, page
128, and are here repeated.

The FOUR ELEMENTS which constitute a GOOD PRIMARY
SCHOOL, and without which this System of Public Instruction
will fail of great results, are :

I.—A SUITABLE SCHOOL SITE.

II.—A CONVENIENT SCHOOL HOUSE.
III.—A WELL QUALIFIED TEACHER.
IV —AN EARNEST AND INTELLIGENT SUPER-
VISION.

I.—The School Site:

Remote from noise and that routine work which attracts
the attention of children.

II.—The School House:

1.—Neatly built with architectural proportions.