Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . est division, as most needing intelli-gence and exi)erience, is taken in charge by the high-est teacher. AVe all know women whose best life andthought and whose best years of life are put into theschool-room. l^)r the other sort, only one who has been a teachercan Justly criticise their shortcomings ; only she knows,for instance, how difficult it is to give individual atten-tion to so large a nund>er; only she knows how much ofthe time which should be employed in actual teaching iswasted in the mere ellort to
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . est division, as most needing intelli-gence and exi)erience, is taken in charge by the high-est teacher. AVe all know women whose best life andthought and whose best years of life are put into theschool-room. l^)r the other sort, only one who has been a teachercan Justly criticise their shortcomings ; only she knows,for instance, how difficult it is to give individual atten-tion to so large a nund>er; only she knows how much ofthe time which should be employed in actual teaching iswasted in the mere ellort to keep order. AVith fifteen ortwenty children in one room, and a teacher knowshow to keep her \m\s at work, almost the whole time PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 273 might be given to teaching ; with twice or thrice thatnumber, to insure the quiet essential to class work adiscipline must be maintained so unnatural, so irksometo a healthy child, so almost brutal in its exactions, asto irritate and demoralize the pupils, to weary and un-nerve the teacher, and to abstract an immense propor-. ~v v^>
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