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How Are We Educating Our Young Girls?, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

From the Introduction to When Children Err: A Book for Young Mothers, by Elizabeth Harrison

Harrison discusses the way in which past educational thought, as pointed out by Herbert Spencer, does not prepare individuals for motherhood, to which she describes the importance and necessity to do so.

When Children Err: A Book For Young Mothers, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Table of Contents: The Introduction, The Problem, Who Sets the Standards?, How Wrong Standards are Set Up, Danger of Vague and Varying Standards, When Standards Differ, The Highest Standard, The Growth of Standards, The Discipline of Nature, The Discipline of the Inner Life, The Discipline of the Social World, Value of Confession, Various Forms of Discipline, Arbitrary, or Impulsive Punishment, Retributive, or Revengeful Punishment, Protective, or Legal Punishment, Educative, or Wise Punishment, How to Avoid the Need of Punishment, The Answer Which Time Has Given

How Shall We Best Conserve Our Nation's Moral Forces, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

"What are the moral resources of a nation? Is not the greatest of these character? Say what we will, deep down in the heart of each and everyone of us we know that material prosperity is not the highest form of success..."

-Elizabeth Harrison

Misunderstood Children: Sketches Taken From Life, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Book Contents: Sammie's Prayer, The Boy Who Hated School, Little Mary, The Twins, For Father's Amusement, A Sunday Morning Diversion, A Geography Lesson, The Sand-Pile, A Shop Scene, Jack and the Alley Boys, The Boy and the Scarlet Coat, Katie MacMahon, A Starved Soul, Daughters of Men, Herbert at His Grandmother's, Gertrude's Story, Miss Eleanor's Garden

Questions On A Study Of Child-Nature, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Arranged by the Woman's Council and Mothers' Circles of Akron, Ohio.

To those thinking parents and teachers who are interested in the study and best development of their children, this question book, compiled from Miss Elizabeth Harrison's "A Study of Child Nature", may prove some assistance.

The questions are so arranged that the answers will suggest themselves while reading the text-book, or without it, may be answered from the parent's or teacher's experience.