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. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...while the instructor lingers in a leisurely fashion outside. I know of no more admirable reason for historical study than this phrase, the natural expression of the Gary child who wrote the constitution for this class. They do not seem to know whether they are studying "Civics" or not. They are too ...
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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. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...while the instructor lingers in a leisurely fashion outside. I know of no more admirable reason for historical study than this phrase, the natural expression of the Gary child who wrote the constitution for this class. They do not seem to know whether they are studying "Civics" or not. They are too busy soaking in from real events a familiarity with history as it is lived and the community as it works. I throw in here an advertisement for the "Literary Digest" and the "Independent," which the pupils regularly read. They study history backward, so that it explains what is happening to-day. They repeatedly dramatize remote times. They are talking of cooperating with the State historical pageant. It seemed to me that these children were actually learning their social world in the spontaneous natural way that the intelligent child learns it from newspapers and books and from the slow, unconscious widening of horizon for which he must usually look quite outside the school. If other community institutions have anything educational to offer outside the school, or if parents and children think they have, Mr. Wirt's school lets the children go to these out of their auditorium or play hour. The churches may have them for religious instruction--there is no Bible-reading or prayer in the Gary schools--and thus avoid the imagined necessity for a special kind of church day-school. Already a Polish parochial school in Gary has lost its reason for being and vanished. Y. M. C. A's, neighborhood houses, special music-teachers, etc., may also act as extensipns of the school. It will be interesting to seeljiow successfully some of these institutions which purport to form the child's morals and care for his soul's destiny prove their supplementary value, and...
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