This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...serving his town. He can bring uplifting influences directly into the homes through his pupils and their work. In this connection, one cannot emphasize too much the moral, or character-building, value of industrial work as treated on pages 124, 125, and touched upon throughout this book. Most of the children will spend ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...serving his town. He can bring uplifting influences directly into the homes through his pupils and their work. In this connection, one cannot emphasize too much the moral, or character-building, value of industrial work as treated on pages 124, 125, and touched upon throughout this book. Most of the children will spend their lives in the towns in which they were born and educated. Therefore, while in school, they should be encouraged to take an interest in the town of which they will later become citizens, and many of them officials. The aim of every citizen should be to make his town clean, healthy,1 and beautiful. An important lesson is already learned when the pupils make their school clean, healthy, and beautiful. The next step is to encourage each child to do the same with his home. Soon the older 1 Consult Ritchie-Purcell's Primer of Sanitation for the Tropics for information regarding sanitation which every pupil and every citizen should have for safeguarding his own health and that of the community. citizens, even those who have no children in school, will become active in home improvement. Perhaps some officials need the example of progressive teachers and pupils, before they see the need of improving public buildings and grounds. One must not be influenced too much by appearance alone. A town may look beautiful, but as long as people deposit all kinds of refuse in the stream that runs beside it, it cannot be healthy. A home may look clean and attractive from the road, but the foul, wet spot under the kitchen is a danger to the health of every one in the neighborhood. The mistake of attempting more than can be accomplished. It is a mistake to think that large and elaborate buildings are necessary to make a town look progressive. A town is fortunate...
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