So many slighting remarks have been made of late on the use of teaching grammar as compared with teaching science, that it is plain the fact has been lost sight of that grammar is itself a science. The object we have, or should have, in teaching science, is not to fill a childs mind with a vast number of facts that may or may not prove useful to him hereafter, but to draw out and exercise his powers of observation, and to show him how to make use of what he observes. . . . And here the teacher of grammar has a great advantage over the teacher of other sciences, in that the facts he has to call attention to lie ready at hand for every pupil to observe without the use of apparatus of any kind while the use of them also lies within the personal experience of every one.-Dr Richard Morris. The proper study of a language is an intellectual discipline of the highest order. If I except discussions on the comparative merits of Popery and Protestantism, English grammar was the most important discipline of my boyhood.-John Tyndall. What various opinions writers on English grammar have given in answer to the question, What is grammar? may be shown by the following- English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language by good speakers and writers of the present day.-Whitney A description of account of the nature, build, constitution, or make of a language is called its grammar-Meiklejohn Grammar teaches the laws of language, and the right method of using it in speaking and writing.-Patterson Grammar is the science of letter; hence the science of using words correctly.-Abbott