Handbook of suggestions for the consideration of teachers and others concerned in the work of public elementary schools / Board of Education.

Date:
[1937]
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Credit: Handbook of suggestions for the consideration of teachers and others concerned in the work of public elementary schools / Board of Education. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    give them some power over language as an instru- ment of thought and expression, and, while making them conscious of the limitations of their knowledge, to develop in them such a taste for good reading and thoughtful study as will enable them to increase that knowledge in after years by their own efforts. “The School must at the same time encourage to the utmost the children’s natural activities of and manual instruction, and afford them every opportunity for the healthy development of their bodies, not only by training them in appropriate physical exercises and encouraging them in organised games, but also by instructing them in the working of some of the simpler laws of health. “Tt will be an important though subsidiary who show promise of exceptional capacity, and to develop their special gifts (so far as this can be done » without sacrificing the interests of the majority of the children), so that they may be qualified to pass at the-proper age into Secondary Schools, and be able to derive the maximum of benefit from the education there offered them. ‘And, though their opportunities are but brief, the teachers can yet do much to lay the foundations of conduct. They can endeavour, by example and influence, aided by the sense of discipline which should pervade the School to implant in the children habits of industry, self-control, and courageous perseverance in the face of difficulties; they can teach them to reverence what is noble, to be ready for self-sacrifice, and to strive their utmost after purity and truth; they can foster a strong sense of duty and instil in them that consideration and respect for others which must be the foundation of
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