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Boys' Self-Governing Clubs

Boys' Self-Governing Clubs

Buck, Winifred

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150654287
ISBN13: 9781150654282
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE PERSONALITY OF CLUB ADVISERS It must not be inferred from the foregoing chapters that the educational power of self-governing clubs depends upon system alone. It is personality Working through system which is effective in clubs v as it is in any other scheme of education. It is personality which sees, explains, and inspires; it is system which affords the practical illustrations and which shows the relation of one act or experience to events that have gone before, and to its train of consequences. The difficulty always in making a good club is to find the proper personality to guide it. Heretofore all clubs have been run by untrained volunteers and amateurs whose only qualification for the task assumed was a liking for boys and the power to inspire liking in them. I look forward to the day when the work of advising or directing clubs shall be as honorable a profession as that of schoolteaching, and when all advisers shall be required to prepare themselves for their calling by a course of study more difficult than that now required to prepare public school teachers. In addition to a technical knowledge of history, sociology, psychology, physiology, ethnology, criminology, political economy, pedagogy, the history of education, comparative religions, ethics, music, athletics, botany, arborology, and dramatics, and one or two languages, the ideal club adviser should be a man of the world in the best sense of the word. He should be without religious or political prejudice; he should be democratic in the true, not the cant, acceptation of the word; he should have an attractive personality and excellent manners; he should have travelled; and he should have had a fairly broad social experience, such as might be gained by any...

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