Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . THE OKCIIESTEA PBACTICE. WHY TEACH A CHILDTO PLAY? BY G. E. JOHNSON, SUPERINTENDENT OF PLAYGROUND ASSOCIA-TION, PITTSBURG, PA. THERE are two somewhat paradoxical expressions oftenused by playground people. One is vacation school,the other supervised play. The paradox disappears, how-ever, when we come to think of it. Both expressions are quitenatural and logical. Vacation suggests leisure and the originalmeaning of the word school was leisure. Leisure has al-ways been an essential in education and in human very natu
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . THE OKCIIESTEA PBACTICE. WHY TEACH A CHILDTO PLAY? BY G. E. JOHNSON, SUPERINTENDENT OF PLAYGROUND ASSOCIA-TION, PITTSBURG, PA. THERE are two somewhat paradoxical expressions oftenused by playground people. One is vacation school,the other supervised play. The paradox disappears, how-ever, when we come to think of it. Both expressions are quitenatural and logical. Vacation suggests leisure and the originalmeaning of the word school was leisure. Leisure has al-ways been an essential in education and in human very nature of childhood and the gradual prolongationof human infancy illustrate this. Leisure is Times most pre-cious gift to man. The expression vacation school, onemight say, means very leisurely leisure, or very educationaleducation. This is, perhaps, what Mark Twain meant whenhe said, Dont let your sons schooling interfere too muchwith his education.
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