Author: Helen WodehousePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483542778
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Excerpt from Sunday Talks to Teachers Even from a child's point of View, this is a fair description of the work of a good school. One small picture it brings to my mind is that Of arithmetic lessons in the Upper Fourth when I was thirteen years Old. I had studied decimals before I went to school, and had found it like groping among hard Sharp Objects in a dark room. The school course now threw into these dark places such a flood of light that I moved securely in a transformed world. I did not use those words, but for years afterwards I cared chiefly for that quality in a teacher, - the power of making things clear. Since then I have come to value other kinds of light also: that which comes, for' instance, from the wide knowledge or the keen imagination of the teacher or the writer, or from his power of Inspiration. But the precious book or speech presents itself to me still in the same way, as new light; as making me see some thing that I had not seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.