. Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . Education, the circlerepresents the sum total of all those influenceswhich tend to make the mind and character of thegrowing child. That half of the circle to the rightof the heavy line represents the forces of the school;the half to the left, the forces that come into playoutside the teachers domain. In school are thevarious studies taught; reading, writing, language,nature, geography, history, arithmetic. Otherthings such as morals, manners, hygiene, etc.,come in for their
. Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . Education, the circlerepresents the sum total of all those influenceswhich tend to make the mind and character of thegrowing child. That half of the circle to the rightof the heavy line represents the forces of the school;the half to the left, the forces that come into playoutside the teachers domain. In school are thevarious studies taught; reading, writing, language,nature, geography, history, arithmetic. Otherthings such as morals, manners, hygiene, etc.,come in for their share of force in the divisionJNIiscellaneous. Out of school the childs workinfluences him; his playmates affect him more; theexample and instruction of his parents form hishabits, thought and character to a still greater ex-tent; but more than any one, as much as the three 4 Introduction combined, does his home reading shape his this last statement is no exaggeration isproved by the testimony of many a wise andthoughtful man, by the observation of teacherseverywhere. When a child has learned to he possesses the instrument of highest culture, butat the same time the instrument of greater books or bad methods of reading good bookslead the readers mind astraj^ or stimulate a de-structive imagination that affects character for-ever; but good books and right methods of readingmake the soul sensitive to right and wrong, improvethe mind, inspire to higher ideals and lead to loftiereffort. Introduction 5 Here is the one fertile field wherein teacher, par-ent and every other person interested in the welfareof children and youth may meet and work togetherin the noblest cause God ever gave us the graceto see. I have a notion, said Benjamin Harrison,that children are about the only people we can doanything for. When we get to be men and womenwe are either spoiled or improved. The work isdone. One of the best things we can do is to createa taste for good read
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