The Report of Proceedings, with Papers Read Before the General Sessions Departments and Round Table Conferences, and with Constitution and By-Laws Of PDF Download

Author: Pennsylvania State Meeting
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230036700
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Languages : en
Pages : 310

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...way. You had to play according to the rules, or you could not play at all. There was that old injunction "Don't fudge," "Knuckle down tight," and you soon learned as a boy that you could not play with your fellows unless you played fair. That is a great lesson to teach to the children of America, and it is a fine thing to say to every man in ofi'ice in this great Commonwealth of ours, "Play the game fair." That is what we want in America, and that is what the school stands for when it gives the child the rules of our common civilization; and I hope you will never allow the public schools in Pennsylvania to incorporate into themselves anything which is against the principle and the necessity of teaching the children of this Commonwealth the simple facts of reading, writing and arithmetic, and the other leading subjects on the curriculum. The second thing for which the school stands is that kind of education which is education for citizenship, education for living together, for planning together, for fighting together, for ruling together, as a corporate body of citizens. In addition to that the public school must train our children to compete one with another in the industrial struggle of our American civilization. It is not enough that your child should be taught the common elements of a public school education so that he can live with his kind in a co-operative way; it is also necessary that he shall be taught to earn bread in the sweat of his face, by the toil of his body, in the honorable forms of trade and industry. And that form of _education which endeavors and seeks to teach him definitely and quickly a wage-earning occupation, is the kind of education which in our day has been spoken...