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Self-Training for Mothers

Self-Training for Mothers

Chance, Burton

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General EducationGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1150378247
ISBN13: 9781150378249
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... IX SCHOOL DAYS In one school or another, including the great school of human experience, every one of us is a pupil all his days. And, indeed, to learn and be trained seems to be the purpose of our whole experiment with life. I can not think of any other adequate reason for our being here. What is education for? To teach us how to live; to develop our powers; to teach us to think; to teach us to find our place in the world, to find out what to do and how to do it. Any process that accomplishes these things is education.--E. S. Martin. One of the most serious reasons for giving children tasks and urging them to difficult undertakings is that they may surely learn what longing is. The desire for what is high and far away--this is the heart of life. The desire to attain, the courage to strive, the wisdom to desire and dare well--these are what we want for our children. In these words, Annie Winsor Allen defines the true goal of education. Too often we think of school as a place of classes, marks, prizes, examinations, standing, whereas in reality such things have little to do with education. They may even obstruct the path of the child's effort toward true discovery and advance. The aim of education is reached when there has been created within the soul of the child for all time the divine hunger for what is high and far away, coupled with such development of mind and imagination as will enable him to reach out and, little by little, by his own effort, satisfy his desire. Happy is the child who is able to get behind the scenes of which he reads, and by means of sympathy, imagination, and his inherent dramatic instincts re-live the experiences of those who have gone before and who have made history and the intellectual world. For him education has do...

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