What thinges they be, wherein children are to be trained, eare they passe to the Grammar. That parentes, and maisters ought to examine the naturall abilities in children, whereby they become either fit, or vnfit, to this, or that kinde of life. The three naturall powers in children, Witte to conceiue by, Memorie to retaine by, Discretion to discerne by. That the training vp to good manners, and nurture, doth not belong to the teacher alone, though most to him, next after the parent, whose charge that is most, bycause his commaundement is greatest, ouer his owne childe, and beyond appeale. Of Reading, Writing, Drawing, Musicke by voice, and instrument: and that they be the principall principles, to traine vp the minde in. A generall aunswere to all obiections, which arise against any, or all of these. (P. 25.)
Of exercises and training the body. How necessarie a thing exercise is. What health is, and how it is maintained: what sicknesse is, how it commeth, and how it is preuented. What a parte exercise playeth in the maintenaunce of health. Of the student and his health. That all exercises though they stirre some one parte most, yet helpe the whole bodie. (P. 40.)
The braunching, order, and methode, kept in this discourse of exercises. (P. 49.)
Of exercise in generall, and what it is. And that it is Athleticall for games, Martiall for the fielde, Physicall for health, preparatiue before, postparatiue after the standing exercise: some within dores, for foule whether, some without for faire. (P. 51.)
Of the particular exercises. Why I do appoint so manie, and how to iudge of them, or to deuise the like. (P. 54.)
Of lowd speaking. How necessarie, and how proper an exercise it is for a scholer. (P. 55.)
Of lowd singing, and in what degree it commeth to be one of the exercises. (P. 59.)
Of laughing, and weeping. And whether children be to be forced toward vertue and learning. (P. 63.)
Of daunsing, why it is blamed, and how deliuered from blame. (P. 72.)
Of fensing, or the vse of the weapon. (P. 78.)
Of the circumstances, which are to be considered in exercise. (P. 108.)
The nature and qualitie of the exercise. (P. 109.)
Of the bodies which are to be exercised. (P. 110.)
Of the quantitie that is to be kept in exercise. (P. 118.)