The Rural School from WithinJ.B. Lippincott, 1917 - 303 pages |
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... gives as faithfully as possible his experiences as a teacher of a Kansas rural school . These experiences were interesting , and dealt with live problems , and throughout their dis- cussion it is hoped that the student of pedagogy will ...
... gives as faithfully as possible his experiences as a teacher of a Kansas rural school . These experiences were interesting , and dealt with live problems , and throughout their dis- cussion it is hoped that the student of pedagogy will ...
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... give pub- licity to the inefficiency of the untrained teacher and to bring plainly to the public mind the importance of suitable schools for all the people . For kindly criticism offered and interest mani- fested in this effort to ...
... give pub- licity to the inefficiency of the untrained teacher and to bring plainly to the public mind the importance of suitable schools for all the people . For kindly criticism offered and interest mani- fested in this effort to ...
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... give me " mine . " This he did in payment for the dog's life he had endured a few years previous when he was trying to save for the good of America an aggregation of Brom Boneses and Bud Meanses , whom as he often said , he would have ...
... give me " mine . " This he did in payment for the dog's life he had endured a few years previous when he was trying to save for the good of America an aggregation of Brom Boneses and Bud Meanses , whom as he often said , he would have ...
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... give it a scrubbing . Then I knew the ablutions were not in honor of the new teacher nor of the cause which he was expecting to promote . I learned later , and to my surprise , that all religious denominations had free use of the ...
... give it a scrubbing . Then I knew the ablutions were not in honor of the new teacher nor of the cause which he was expecting to promote . I learned later , and to my surprise , that all religious denominations had free use of the ...
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... give variety . Some of the readers were new to me , and almost interesting . The arithmetics were good . The grammars were good . The his- tories were poor , so were the geographies . The first two subjects were my favorite studies ...
... give variety . Some of the readers were new to me , and almost interesting . The arithmetics were good . The grammars were good . The his- tories were poor , so were the geographies . The first two subjects were my favorite studies ...
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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,...
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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.