Excerpt from Discipline as a Factor in the Work of the School Room And served seven weeks at the head of a regiment. He Was principal until 1866, when he became State superintendent, which' office he held for 14 years, during which period he was recognized as leading the progress the State made in education. He was officially editor of the School Journal; he was author of two pedagogical works of wide sale, School Economy and Meth ods of Instruction and his last work was a History of Education in Pennsylvania that will always be the standard authority. This address of Dr. Wickersham was per haps the best known and most widely influ ential of all his writings, and its publication in this form is in response to repeated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.