The Infant System

The Infant System, by Samuel Wilderspin, is a classic education guide "For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age." "I am a zealous friend, upon conviction, to Infant Schools for the children of the poor. No person who has not himself watched them, can form an adequate action of what these institutions, when judiciously conducted, may effect in forming the tempers and habits of young children; in giving them, not so much actual knowledge, as that which at their age is more important, the habit and faculty of acquiring it; and it correcting those moral defects which neglect or injudicious treatment would soon confirm and render incurable." The Bishop of London.