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Page 35 - I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass — O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all...
Page vii - Education has no more serious responsibility than making adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure; not only for the sake of immediate health, but still more if possible for the sake of its lasting effect upon habits of mind.
Page vii - ... imagination is as much a normal and integral part of human activity as is muscular movement. The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations. Their utilitarian value in forming habits of skill...
Page 1 - ... balanced life. Probably no one who has been drilled in design will be content with chaos and discord. If he can be made profoundly miserable when in contact with them, he will have gone a long way toward eliminating them. If he add to...
Page 59 - The pupils next discover that the color in nature varies greatly with the time of day and the season of the year.
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Page 88 - Appreciation of art is a love for the beautiful and a sense of discrimination which realizes that the fashion of the moment is not necessarily beautiful, and which does not mistake the pretty and banal for the great work of art.
Page 18 - In other words a course of study in spelling doesn't arbitrarily begin with words of one syllable in the first grade to progress to complicated six-syllable words in the high school, but rather follows the growth in the child's vocabulary as he finds his spelling complexities grow through his needs.
Page 88 - The love of pictures is emotional, but nevertheless an intellectual understanding of them can be developed. The aesthetic qualities of a picture, fine spacing, interesting composition, color harmony, rhythm of lines and masses, can be understood without reference to their emotional power. Picture study...
Page 11 - The best rule to observe is to counterbalance the main axis of a design with an opposing line, but to keep the opposing line less important than the main line. It is largely a problem of emphasis.