School Credit for Home Work

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Houghton Mifflin, 1915 - 181 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 39 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
الصفحة 39 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
الصفحة 34 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
الصفحة 39 - ... fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out. Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built itself up within him as a possession that will never pass away. Young people should know this truth in advance. The ignorance of it has probably engendered more discouragement and faint-heartedness in youths embarking on arduous careers than all other causes put...
الصفحة 5 - ... home that it does not put the child into that sympathetic relation with the home which, after all, is for him and the home the most important thing in the world. Juvenile institutions find that they must be careful not to institutionalize the child to the extent that he may not be contented in a real home. In my opinion it will be a great thing for the child to want to help his parents do the task that needs to be done and to want to do it in the best possible way. The reason that so many country...
الصفحة 5 - Helps" is a good one. But one says: "How can it be brought about? How can the school give credit for industrial work done at home?" It may be done by sending home printed slips asking the parents to take account of the work that the child does at home under their instruction, and explaining that credit will be given for this work on the school record. These slips must be used according to the age of the child...
الصفحة 4 - Every home has the equipmerit for industrial work and has some one who uses it with more or less skill. The school has made so many demands on the home that the parents have in some cases felt that all the time of the child must be given to the school. But an important thing that the child needs along with school work is established habits of home-making.
الصفحة 80 - ... voucher will state the total number of minutes due the pupil each day for home work. 5. At the close of the contest pupils will return vouchers to teacher, the six pupils who have earned the greatest amount of time, per the vouchers, receiving awards. 6. Contest closes when term of school closes. 7. Once each month the names of the six pupils who are in the lead will be published in the county papers. 8. Ten per cent credit will be added to final examination results of all pupils (except eighth...
الصفحة 24 - Association to the depressing effect which lack of interest and conscious progress in school work has upon children. To introduce new and higher subjects into the school programme is not necessarily to increase the strain upon the child. If this measure increases the interest and attractiveness of the work and the sense of achievement, it will diminish weariness and the risk of hurtful strain. Lastly, there is an apprehension lest the introduction of the new subjects recommended should increase existing...
الصفحة 17 - One good motherly-looking country woman said : "Before this plan was started I got up in the morning and prepared breakfast for the family, and after breakfast saw to the preparation of the children for school. Now, when morning comes the girls insist upon my lying in bed so that they may get breakfast. After breakfast they wash the dishes, sweep the kitchen, and do many other things as well as make their own preparation for school, I think the plan is a success. My only fear is that it will make...

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