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... with- out any thought of building one , about flowers when they have no intention of growing them , about all kinds 13 WHY WE SHOULD HELP CHILDREN READ FOR Reading for Fun Helps Children to Live Happily in Their Democracy Page.
... with- out any thought of building one , about flowers when they have no intention of growing them , about all kinds 13 WHY WE SHOULD HELP CHILDREN READ FOR Reading for Fun Helps Children to Live Happily in Their Democracy Page.
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... flowering fruit trees , colored rocks , wild flowers , his- toric old settlements , cities that sprang up like magic over- night mines , oil - wells , —a grand panorama of all that the earth has given man , that he has been able to ...
... flowering fruit trees , colored rocks , wild flowers , his- toric old settlements , cities that sprang up like magic over- night mines , oil - wells , —a grand panorama of all that the earth has given man , that he has been able to ...
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... flowers off the wheel . " They need " The Riverman " by Stewart Edward White , -and tales like Sin- clair's story of Stell , who in a barren home in a lumber camp finds that power of work , which " no matter how bits of ex- ploding iron ...
... flowers off the wheel . " They need " The Riverman " by Stewart Edward White , -and tales like Sin- clair's story of Stell , who in a barren home in a lumber camp finds that power of work , which " no matter how bits of ex- ploding iron ...
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... Flower , a Child of Japan .. Ocean and its Mysteries .... Rivers and Their Mysteries . Paz and Pablo .... All Around Asia ... Schoonover . Mirick ... Starr .Grenfell ..Slocum ... Verne .Dhan Mukerji . Ingersoll Headland ... .Gaines ...
... Flower , a Child of Japan .. Ocean and its Mysteries .... Rivers and Their Mysteries . Paz and Pablo .... All Around Asia ... Schoonover . Mirick ... Starr .Grenfell ..Slocum ... Verne .Dhan Mukerji . Ingersoll Headland ... .Gaines ...
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... flowers for fair ladies ; purple ones for knights . There are paper boats seen for a moment ; boats of wood , scooped out , dug - out fashion , with match - stick masts and paper or cloth sails ; boats and rafts that float real boys and ...
... flowers for fair ladies ; purple ones for knights . There are paper boats seen for a moment ; boats of wood , scooped out , dug - out fashion , with match - stick masts and paper or cloth sails ; boats and rafts that float real boys and ...
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Page 157 - The conditions may be reduced to two: ( 1 ) The need that the child shall have in his own personal and vital experience a varied background of contact and acquaintance with realities, social and physical. This is necessary to prevent symbols from becoming a purely second-hand and conventional substitute for reality. (2) The need that the more ordinary, direct, and personal experience of the child shall furnish problems, motives, and interests that necessitate recourse to books for their solution,...
Page 46 - Quarterly, made literature more and more the almost independent 'institution' which Prosper de Barante, writing in 1822, claimed it to have been in the eighteenth century.11 As Ashley Thorndike urged, the outstanding characteristic of the printed matter of the nineteenth century is not its vulgarization, or its mediocrity, but rather its specialization. This printed matter is no longer addressed to a uniform or homogeneous public: it is divided up among many publics and consequently divided by many...
Page 61 - There are bridges in it, and pens that may write — well, maybe love-letters," she said, with sly and clumsy humor, " or even write, perhaps, the liberty of a race, as Lincoln's pen wrote it. Yes ! " she said, her face full of luminous abstraction,
Page 45 - The purpose demands catholicity of theme. The literature should reveal war, personal adventure, love, brigandage, philanthropy, religion, travels, poverty, family life, commerce, agriculture, industry, transportation, government, the struggle with nature and with disease, conflicting social classes, the labors of science and technology; and the other major ingredients of human existence. As literature rings the changes upon these things for different historical periods and in different portions of...
Page 201 - ... before you entered the book. Go in through the front door. Read plenty of books about people and things, but not too many books about books. Literature is not to be taken in emulsion. The only way to know a great author is to read his works for yourself. That will give you knowledge at first-hand. Read one book at a time, but never one book alone. Well-born books always have relatives. Follow them up. Learn something about the family if you want to understand the individual. If you have been...
Page 127 - A book, to be on our lists, must be about something we want to know about. It must be written in words we can understand. If it tries to state facts, they must be accurate. If it tells a story involving what is true to life, the story must not be so overdrawn as to be ridiculous. It must become more interesting as the story proceeds. It must be told in good English.
Page 60 - ... the cause, for the present, of conscious emphasis on vocational education. In the first place, there is an increased esteem, in democratic communities, of whatever has to do with manual labour, commercial occupations, and the rendering of tangible services to society. In theory, men and women are now expected to do something in return for their support — intellectual and economic — by society. Labour is extolled ; service is a much-lauded moral ideal. While there is still much admiration...
Page 48 - Does the book contain enough truth, beauty, or active good to make it worth my while...
Page 49 - ... increasingly higher levels of literary appreciation. 2. The sources from which literary selections are made should be world-wide, and as varied in interest as the activities of life which have found expression in Literature. 3. Every subject of study — history, geography, the practical arts, and the fine arts — should be so developed as to cultivate intellectual interests to such a degree that habits will grow in reading from all other kinds of wholesome matter in addition to Literature as...
Page 47 - ... instruction as to provide for both class instruction and individual instruction. There can be little doubt that teaching in groups has been overdone. Individual instruction based on analysis of individual performances is called for as one of the most important innovations to be worked out in the schools. Individual instruction, when it is properly worked out, will not be a chance concession to personal caprice but a systematic analysis of individual performances followed by an adaptation of instruction...