A school without books: . lin s f ** J^ School without books EDUCATIONAL HANDIWORK Home and Schoolroom, By Martha Watrous Stearns. ^ » REVIEW AND COMPANY,liattle Creek, Midi. ^^1 4 Entered accordins;- to Act of Congress, in the year 1897, by Review and Herald Publishing Co.,In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. THE value of manual occupation for children has -ong been recognized. Yet on intro- *ducing manual work into communities where it has never before been taught, many pupils are apt to consider it a degradation of school work proper, a


A school without books: . lin s f ** J^ School without books EDUCATIONAL HANDIWORK Home and Schoolroom, By Martha Watrous Stearns. ^ » REVIEW AND COMPANY,liattle Creek, Midi. ^^1 4 Entered accordins;- to Act of Congress, in the year 1897, by Review and Herald Publishing Co.,In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. THE value of manual occupation for children has -ong been recognized. Yet on intro- *ducing manual work into communities where it has never before been taught, many pupils are apt to consider it a degradation of school work proper, and maintainan injured air when asked to work a visible, material problem, by making a box ; asthough their dignity was injured by descending to the handling of base matter. Butgive them the same thing in abstract numbers, and they feel that they have somethingworthy of their thought. They would doubtless be surprised to be told that such senti-ments are the relics of paganism and bigotry ; yet to prove it so, we have only to studytheschoolwithoutboo00stea


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