Thanks are due to the ladies and gentlemen who, often at great inconvenience and under pressure of much other work, have been so good as to contribute articles on those aspects of the question on which their long experience specially entitles them to speak. Acknowledgment should also here be made of the kindness of large numbers of correspondents, who found time to furnish the materials on which the greater number of the following reports are based. The papers of questions which they answered for this purpose are printed in the Appendix. I am, however, under special obligation to Mr. C. C. Cotterill, who, throughout the two years during which this volume has been in preparation, has acted as honorary co-editor of the reports and has shared with me from the first the labours of correspondence, arrangement and correction. To him is due the original conception of the work in its present extended form, and without the help of his great experience and of his personal influence among preparatory schoolmasters the completion of the plan would have been impossible. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, MICHAEL E. SADLER, Director of Special Inquiries and Reports. December, 1900. CONTENTS. [The asterisk signifies that the writer is Headmaster of a Preparatory Introduction III. The Plan of the present Volume. By Mr. C. C. Cotterill, Hon. Secretary of the Associa- tion of Headmasters of Preparatory Schools, late Headmaster of Greenbank Preparatory School, PAGE The Teaching of Latin and Greek in Preparatory PAGE The Teaching of History in Preparatory Schools The Teaching of Geography in Preparatory Schools - 219 The Teaching of Modern Languages in Preparatory By Messrs. E. P. Arnold, Wixenford, Wokingham, and Fabian Ware, late Assistant-Master at Bradford Grammar The Employment of Leisure Hours in Boys' Boarding |