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article, will exclaim,—“[‘]There is something that we must
introduce into our schools.’”
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VIII. Breaching [the] Chinese Wall of High School Classicism
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I. “Coöperation”[Co-operation] and “Progressivism”
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education of the city child. Standing on the threshhold[threshold]
of his meager dwelling, this child of six looks forward
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school district establishes part-time day schools for the
instruction of youths over fourteen years af[of] age who
are engaged in regular employment, such board of education
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buying of materials and simple acounting[accounting] covered their
mathematics. Those were the things which would probably
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school classes. They all brushed their hair. The boys
were neater and the girls were becomingly dressed.["]
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“Yes, it was a wrench,” Mr. McAndrews[McAndrew] admits.
“You see, the teachers hated to give up. They had been
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will all bear directly on the work of the farm in
which he is so deeply interested.["]
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that is enough. We have no problem of discipline now.
The children and their parents are working for the
school.["]
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first thing I knew, the way opened up—you never would guess how—it was
through biscuits.["]
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biggest burden we have to carry—the most determined
enemy we have to fight? Well, sir, its’s[it’s] ignorance—the
ignorance of the common man about his farm or his
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other States were equally good in view of the fact that a drought
prevailed very generally throughout the South in 1911.["]
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For a full statement of the work of the Columbus Schools
see “Industrial Education in Columbus,["] Ga., R. B. Daniel, U. S.
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should use text-books as adults do books of reference,
while the teacher guides and directs in the development
of thought.["]