How to sow small seeds

I recently bought pansy seed. How would I plant these tiny specks?

I got a plain white saucer, emptied the sachet in it, and with a vegetable knife, scooped out one seed at a time. I will be counting as I go, as one packet cost 23 cents a seed and the other, 14 cents! This system would probably work for carrots.

Thinking back to when I was 11 (85 years ago) I was in charge of the house vegetable garden and often sent out of class to attend the school gardens. At 14 or 15 I remember thinning and weeding endless rows of sugar beet grown for the cows. As sugar was rationed, I studied, courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica, how to turn sugar beet into sugar. My efforts were to no avail.

A vegetable garden is more of a struggle now. I think the first pest was the white butterfly. A bounty was put on their heads, I remember as a small boy chasing them, but I don’t think I got any money for my efforts. A hopeless scheme.