The Rural School from WithinJ.B. Lippincott, 1917 - 303 pages |
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... training and personality are but the means by which this development is to be directed . But above all the spiritual and moral forces , the men and women , the boys and girls of the community must be under- stood and used . These ...
... training and personality are but the means by which this development is to be directed . But above all the spiritual and moral forces , the men and women , the boys and girls of the community must be under- stood and used . These ...
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... . MISTAKES .. XVIII . MUSIC , Stories and PLAY .. XIX . TRAINING FOR LEISURE .. XX . SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS XXI . OUR TEACHER .... 125 136 148 174 185 189 216 233 256 282 THE RURAL SCHOOL FROM WITHIN CHAPTER I LIVING UP TO.
... . MISTAKES .. XVIII . MUSIC , Stories and PLAY .. XIX . TRAINING FOR LEISURE .. XX . SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS XXI . OUR TEACHER .... 125 136 148 174 185 189 216 233 256 282 THE RURAL SCHOOL FROM WITHIN CHAPTER I LIVING UP TO.
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... training of children than has any other educator of modern times . In his several novels , he deals with over twenty schools , each with a definite purpose . He discovered or invented a greater number of probable characters than all ...
... training of children than has any other educator of modern times . In his several novels , he deals with over twenty schools , each with a definite purpose . He discovered or invented a greater number of probable characters than all ...
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... training room , rooms for domestic science fitted up with every modern cooking convenience , domestic art , physics , chemistry and botany labora- tories , large well - furnished class rooms , a magnifi- cent library with comfortable ...
... training room , rooms for domestic science fitted up with every modern cooking convenience , domestic art , physics , chemistry and botany labora- tories , large well - furnished class rooms , a magnifi- cent library with comfortable ...
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... training and saving the young boys and girls , and this is bad practice . The farm that is robbed of its fertility and allowed to run to cockle burrs and other noxious weeds will be difficult of reclamation . With the boy or girl who is ...
... training and saving the young boys and girls , and this is bad practice . The farm that is robbed of its fertility and allowed to run to cockle burrs and other noxious weeds will be difficult of reclamation . With the boy or girl who is ...
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Page 110 - What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice, That's what little girls are made of.
Page 250 - ... bad school organization ; while other sections, less fortunately situated in other ways, have been able to make exceptional progress in school reorganization because favored by modern laws on this subject. Three distinct units of organization are in use at the present time in the United States — the district, the township, and the county. In addition, there are several instances of mixed systems in which the management rests both on the district and on the township, or county. Experience has,...
Page 111 - O woman, lovely woman ! nature made you To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you ; There's in you all that we believe of heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy and everlasting love.
Page 114 - ... perseverance may probably obtain every advantage and honour his college can bestow. I forget whether the simile has been used before, but I would compare the man, whose youth has been thus passed in the tranquillity of dispassionate prudence, to liquors which never ferment, and consequently continue always muddy.
Page 114 - A lad, whose passions are not strong enough in youth to mislead him from that path of science which his tutors, and not his inclinations, have ! chalked out, by four or five years perseverance may probably obtain every | advantage and honour his college can bestow.
Page 130 - he who by the plow would thrive, must either hold the plow or drive," is superccded by the precept, " he who by the plow would thrive, must toil in thought as well as drive.
Page 83 - It's good enough for me! It was good enough for father, It was good enough for father, It was good enough for father, And it's good enough for me!
Page 250 - In addition, there are several instances of mixed systems, in which the responsibility for management is divided between the district and the township, the district and the county, or the township and the county. There is also some variety in the details of the township systems and much variety in those of the county systems. The district system...
Page 243 - Experience in teaching, covering several years in graded-school work, in an academy, and in a normal school, leads to the conviction that no subject requires more sound knowledge of the principles of pedagogy than does the subject of agriculture.
Page 279 - It is to this new-fashioned laxity of rule that we may in part attribute, I think, much of the insubordination and riot, yes, even 'Lynch law,' which has crept into our schools and families, as well as pervaded like a pestilence over our states.