ISBN: 9781144943897

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV THE EDUCATIVE VALUE OF LABOR The daily doing of needful things with regularity and efficiency is half of a liberal education. I Yield the palm to none in my appreciation of what education can do for an individual, for a profession, and for a community, but in many .respects we are school mad. Every child needs as much as he can get of the knowledge of the world and of the wisdom of the ancients to help him to meet the issues of life, but he needs also personal touch and experience with the world of to-day, that he may know how to meet and to deal with the world of to-morrow when he will be a man with maximum responsibilities. I have said that in our thirst for information we have become school mad. I say it because we undertake to absorb practically every moment of the time of the child in his academic work, most of it with books dealing either with ancient affairs or with abstract information which, good though it is, cannot constitute a sufficient preparation for a life in the present and with the concrete. When the high school girl must choose between her music and her high school course, then something is wrong, and the evident remedy is to absorb less of her time in her studies, leaving time for music, or else to count the music as a part of her course. When she is so busy with her studies that she has no time to perform any part of the necessary labor of the home, then something is wrong, and the remedy isto require less of her time in the school, or else to take household affairs into the course. If the schools as now organized could have their way with a boy, they would use all his time in the schoolroom and get him through the grades and the high school at seventeen or eighteen, then on into college for four years, with three more for a doctor's d.. Books Books ~~ Education & Teaching~~ General Education-for-Efficiency~~Eugene-Davenport Nabu Press This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.<

ISBN: 9781144943897

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may ha… More...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. Eugene Davenport, Books, Reference and Language, Education For Efficiency: A Discussion Of Certain Phases Of The Problem Of Universal Education, With Special Reference To Aca Books>Reference and Language This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 200 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=11mm, Gew.=367gr, [GR: 27220 - TB/Erziehung/Bildung/Allgemeines /Lexika], [SW: - His… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Nabu Press, 200 Seiten, L=189mm, B=246mm, H=11mm, Gew.=367gr, [GR: 27220 - TB/Erziehung/Bildung/Allgemeines /Lexika], [SW: - History - General History], Kartoniert/Broschiert This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.<