OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book

An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.

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	Colonial Schools of the Eighteenth Century 65 without text-books. They gave out to their scholars rules and problems from manuscript sum-books which the schoolmasters had themselves made under their teachers. It was such a sum-book that
	Frontispiece and Title-page of a Colonial Arithmetic. Reduced one-half.
	the boy Abraham Lincoln copied while he was learn­ing arithmetic ; for even at that date the old method of teaching without a text-book survived here and there. Many scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries never saw a printed arithmetic,