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<br /> emits from our schools but one, however,'were admitted, two desire of parents, was to take out of education anything
<br /> from other towns being among the rejected. - which looked like Hard work; to enable our childierr to get
<br /> In some cases we consented to Admissions contrary to our an education vicariously, by somebody a se's work and
<br /> judameut, yielding to the earnest solicitations of parents. study. If a study comes hard to a child, straightway
<br /> father or mother must petition that he give up that special
<br /> This is a fast age, and parents and guardians seem to be
<br /> influenced by the general hurry, to rush their children throughin
<br /> study. The committees and guardians of youth are warned
<br /> their school days as early in life as possible. j . that a few hours' study (an amazingly few _hours' .study, in
<br /> most cases 1), five days in the week; two-thirds of the year,
<br /> Hardly a week-passes that we do not have requests from
<br /> is making a complete wreck of the constitutions of all our
<br /> parents that their children may be advanced, or that some
<br /> x-rangement may be made by which they may jump a year, boys and girls. Perhaps so ! For ourselves, we believe the
<br /> or get through a particular school and into another sooner Y exact contrary. We believe that any reasonable .amount
<br /> than the regular course allows; and hardly a week passes of study, any amount which is required. by,the school coin=
<br /> mittees of Massachusetts towns, is a positive advantage to
<br /> that we do not hear complaints of overwork.
<br /> We have, carefully examined into these complaints, and health. At any rate we would not give much for that edu-
<br /> are of the opinion that only in very rare instances does a
<br /> cation which does not,involve some systematic hard work on
<br /> scholar suffer from overwork when he is in his right place ;
<br /> the part of the pupils as well as teachers. It will not maize
<br /> and we are also of the opinion that fifty per cent. of those r y` the kind of men and women which we need to grapple with
<br /> the hard realities and the knotty problems of actual life.
<br /> scholars who are now advanced from class to class,and grade
<br /> to grade, up to the High School, and even in the High
<br /> The examination for admission to the High School, above
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<br /> School itself, would be better off if kept back a full 3,ear. referred to, was by printed questions, as follows:
<br /> But.it is at the expense of considerable moral courage that ,
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<br /> we ever venture to do this, or even suggest it with reference
<br /> to any particular scholar-, so great is the pressure to get on ; (Leave your work ire full.
<br /> while perhaps the very parents who strenuously oppose us ,r
<br /> in this, particular may be complaining a year hence of over- j 1 1. Write in words the following
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<br /> We believe that scholars as well as other people should be
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<br /> work. Indeed, we send children to school that they may � Multiply their sum by one and three hundredths, divide
<br /> the product by five ten-tl7ousarzdths, and reduce the quotient
<br /> learn to think, to work with their own minds.
<br /> In this connection we venture to quote from the last to a common fraction.
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<br /> report of the school committee of our neighboring town of 2. Reduce ?T_b 4 to a decimal fraction.
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<br /> Now, it seems as if the whole tendency of our times, the 3. How many half-pint bottles aye required to hold 723
<br /> whole advice of our educational men and journals, the great ' gal. 2 qts. of wine?
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