ISBN: 9781154323542

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XXI THE SELECTION OF TEXT-BOOKS BY LOCAL AUTHOEITIES It was observed in 1866 that the common schools were abundantly supplied with an excellent and multiplied series of Spellers, Beaders and Arithmetics, and that the changes demanded were annoying. Township boards of directors, it was suggested, should determine the series to be used for some years to come, and then secure a full supply of all such texts to be kept at some central or convenient place for distribution at a cheap rate. Or, indeed, they might be loaned or donated, if agreeable to the district. There was also a declaration at this time that no one thing could make amends for corrupt or badly written school books. The excellence of these texts must be regarded as an evidence of the high moral tone of our country. It was anticipated that persons then living would write a series of common school readers that would far surpass anything of the kind that had yet appeared.377 During the next year (1867) the first text-book by an Iowa author, so far as is known, was published. While it was a small book of one hundred and thirty pages, designed to be used as a text in grammar and analysis, the author, Jerome Allen, had tested his work fully in his own classes in Monticello. It was said to be distinguished from all other books at the time in that it provided the practical work as well as the fundamentals for a course in English. It was, indeed, a summary of the author''s experience in instruction covering a period of fifteen years. It omitted everything not essential to a course in language; it made grammar interesting; it began with the very youngest pupil by showing him how to express his thoughts; and it required older pupils to compose sentences from the first day through the w... Clarence Ray Aurner, Books, History, History of Education in Iowa (Volume 1) Books>History <

ISBN: 9781154323542

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