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Institutional Management And Home Economist, George H. Black
Institutional Management And Home Economist, George H. Black
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We are on the threshold of a new technique in education for adults as well as for little children. The chief feature of the new technique, as opposed to the old and now conventional type, is that it is based upon participation while the old depends chiefly upon rationalization.
A Review Of The Pedagogical Studies In The Teaching Of Spelling, Mary A. Grupe
A Review Of The Pedagogical Studies In The Teaching Of Spelling, Mary A. Grupe
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Despite the fact that a few far-seeing men have, from the early years of the eighteenth century, inveighed against the dominance of spelling and the "cruel drudgery" it entailed upon the learner, the subject remained an independent discipline far into the nineteenth century. To be able to spell was the criterion whereby to judge the educated man and so ingrained did this become in the popular mind that even to this day our grandfathers, nay our fathers, dubiously shake their heads because spelling no longer occupies a conspicuous place on the schoolroom program and because, as they insist, the rising …