I. What is Teaching?
II. The Art of Questioning
III. The Difference between Teaching and Training
IV. Modes of Hearing Recitations
V. On Observing a Proper Order in the Development of
the Mental Faculties
VI. Teaching Children what they do not Understand
VII. Cultivating the Memory in Youth
VIII. Knowledge before Memory
IX. Power of Words
X. The Study of Language
XI. Cultivating the Voice
XII. Eyes
XIII. Errors of the Cave
XIV. Men of One Idea
XV. A Talent for Teaching
XVI. Teaching Power
XVII. Growing
XVIII. Loving the Children
XIX. Gaining the Affections of the Scholars
XX. The Obedience of Children
XXI. Rarey as an Educator
XXII. A Boarding-School Experience
XXIII. Phrenology
XXIV. Normal Schools
XXV. Practice-Teaching
XXVI. Attention as a Mental Faculty, and as a Means of
Mental Culture
XXVII. Gaining the Attention
XXVIII. Counsels:
1. To a Young Teacher;
2. To a New Pupil;
3. To a Young Lady on leaving School;
4. To a Pupil on Entering a Normal School
XXIX. An Argument for Common Schools
XXX. What is Education?