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This book offers a lively critique of conventional schooling and outlines progressive, child-centered alternatives developed in experimental schools. The author examines the child, the school building, teachers, textbooks, and the culture that canonizes rote learning, arguing for learning through play, work, artistic expression, drama, curiosity, and the right to be wrong. Chapters consider practical reforms—the Gary plan, vocational learning, and democratic responsibility—and reflect on how education might better align with modern life. The tone is conversational and polemical, combining practical suggestions with philosophical reflections on love, enterprise, and community in education.

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Title: Were You Ever a Child?

Author: Floyd Dell

Release date: September 22, 2018 [eBook #57949]

Language: English

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Were You Ever
a Child?


BY THE SAME AUTHOR

MOON-CALF, a Novel
THE BRIARY-BUSH, a Novel



Were You Ever
a Child?

by

Floyd Dell

Second Edition, with a New Preface

New York
Alfred · A · Knopf
1921


COPYRIGHT, 1919, 1921, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


TO
THE SCHOOL TEACHERS
OF MY CHILDHOOD
IN TOKEN OF FORGIVENESS