 The simple fact was, that they were happier and more amused and better contented at school than at home. The drudgery of the impossible primer no longer made infant life miserable. The alphabet was robbed of its terrors, and stole upon them unawares...  Development Lessons - Page 287by Esmond Vedder De Graff, Margaret Keiver Smith - 1883 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1881 - 262 pages
..." so daring an experiment " in " the new departure " : " The drudgery of the alphabet was gone. It was robbed of its terrors, and stole upon them unawares,...primaries read, not a child among them could repeat his letters. So daring an experiment as this can, however, be tested in but one way, — by its practical... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1880 - 232 pages
..."so daring an experiment" in "the new departure " : — "The drudgery of the alphabet was gone. It was robbed of its terrors, and stole upon them unawares,...primaries read, not a child among them could repeat his letters. So daring an experiment as this can, however, be tested in but one way, — by its practical... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1880 - 236 pages
..."so daring an experiment" in "the new departure " : — " The drudgery of the alphabet was gone. It was robbed of its terrors, and stole upon them unawares,...primaries read, not a child among them could repeat his letters. So daring an experiment as this can, however, be tested in but one way, — by its practical... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Education - 1881 - 90 pages
...children actually went to school without being dragged there. Yet the reason of this was not far to seek. The simple fact was, that they were happier and more...child among them could repeat its letters, or even knew their names ; unless, perchance, to the teacher's increased trouble, they had been taught them... | |
 | Education - 1881 - 662 pages
..."so daring an experiment" in "the new departure " : — " The drudgery of the alphabet was gone. It was robbed of its terrors, and stole upon them unawares,...primaries read, not a child among them could repeat his letters.* So daring an experiment as this can, however, be tested in but one way, — by its practical... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1881 - 282 pages
..." so daring an experiment " in " the new departure " : " The drudgery of the alphabet was gone. It was robbed of its terrors, and stole upon them unawares,...primaries read, not a child among them could repeat his letters. So daring an experiment as this can, however, be tested in but one way, — by. its practical... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1903 - 1300 pages
...tribulation," wrote Mr. Ailam*. " The children actually went to school without being dragged there. The simple fact was that they were happier and more...amused and better contented at school than at home." What had happened? Only tho obvious, it вееаз, as we look back at it now. Mr. Adams has described... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1900 - 566 pages
...tribulation," wrote Mr. Adams. " The children actually went to school without being dragged there. The simple fact was, that they were happier and more...amused and better contented at school than at home." What had happened? Only the obvious, it seems, as we look back at it now. Mr. Adams has described it... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 1300 pages
...homesick tribulation." wrote Mr. Adams. "The children actually went to school without being dragged there. The simple fact was that they were happier and more...amused and better contented at school than at home." What had happened':1 Only the obvious, it seems, as we look back at it now. Mr. Adams has described... | |
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