Annual Report of the Town Officers ...1880 |
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Page 48 - It can only be done in one way, — you have to furnish the individual mind the nutriment it wants, and, at the same time, gently direct it in the way it should go. In other words, if the teacher is going to give himself the intense enjoyment and pleasure of doing this work, he cannot stop at the border of that wilderness of literature of which I was just now speaking, but he has got to take the pupil by the hand and enter into it with him ; — he must be more than his pedagogue, he must be his...
Page 48 - ... from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus on tea or coffee or spirits. Yet here, — on the threshold of this vast field, you might even call it this wilderness of general literature, full as it is of holes and bogs and pitfalls all covered over with poisonous plants, — here it is that our common-school system brings our children, and, having brought them there, it leaves them to go on or not, just as they please ; or,...
Page 48 - Going a step further and following the scholar out into grown-up life, I fancy that a comparison of experiences would show that scarcely one out of twenty of those who leave our schools ever further educate themselves in any great degree, outside, of course, of any special trade or calling through which they earn a living. The reason of this, I would now suggest, is obvious enough ; and it is not the fault of the scholar. It is the fault of a system which brings a community up in the idea that a...
Page 88 - Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Page 48 - So far as I can judge, we teach our children the mechanical part of reading, and then we turn them loose to take their chances. If the child has naturally an inquiring or imaginative mind, it perchance may work its way unaided through the traps and pitfalls of literature; but the chances seem to me to be terribly against it. It is so...
Page 48 - ... succeed ; therefore, I would like to see it attempted in Quincy. Having started the child by means of what we call a commonschool course, — -having, as it were, learned it to walk, — the process of further self-education is to begin. The great means of selfeducation is through books — through much reading of books. But just here there is in our system of instruction a missing link. In our schools we teach children to read ; — we do not teach them how to read. That, the one all-important...
Page 48 - ... it, as it may chance. I think this is all wrong. Our educational system stops just where its assistance might be made invaluable, — just where it passes out of the mechanical and touches the individual, — just where instruction ceases to be drudgery and becomes a source of pleasure.
Page 48 - ... You shall have all the books you will call for. When, indeed, you begin to call, we shall know exactly what to buy ; and then, at last, we could arrange in printed bulletins the courses of reading which your experience would point out as best, so that every book would be accessible.
Page 85 - GREETING. In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of W.
Page 48 - Yet, though the school and the library stand on our main street side by side, there is, so to speak, no bridge leading from the one to the other.