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- Living Books"Let their books be living books, the best that can be found in liberal supply and variety."
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- Narration"Let him narrate what he has read."
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- History"It is a great thing to possess a pageant of history in the background of one's thoughts."
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- Geography"The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas, and to furnish the imagination with pictures."
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- Bible"Their Bible lessons should help them to realise in early days that the knowledge of God is the principal knowledge, and, therefore, that their Bible lessons are their chief lessons."
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- Math"Let his arithmetic lesson be to the child a daily exercise in clear thinking and rapid, careful execution."
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- Science & Nature Study"Never be within doors when you can rightly be without."
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- Foreign Languages"[A foreign language] should be acquired as English is, not as a grammar, but as a living speech."
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- Writing (Copywork & Composition)"Composition is not an adjunct but an integral part of their education in every subject."
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- Dictation (Spelling)"The whole secret of spelling lies in the habit of visualising words from memory."
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- English & Grammar"Grammar, being a study of words and not of things, is by no means attractive to the child, nor should he be hurried into it."
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- Music & Art"Let the children learn from the first under artists, lovers of their work."
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- Handicrafts & Life Skills"He practises various handicrafts that he may know the feel of wood, clay, leather, and the joy of handling tools, that is, that he may establish a due relation with materials."
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- Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare"The best thoughts of the best minds taking form as literature, and at its highest as poetry."
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- Government & Economics"They come into the world with many relations waiting to be established; relations with places far and near, with the wide universe, with the past of history, with the the social economics of the present . . . "
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- Beginning Reading"Let us recognise that learning to read is to many children hard work, and let us do what we can to make the task easy and inviting."
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