The Community and Its High School

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D. C. Heath, 1923 - High schools - 371 pages

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Page 334 - Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 334 - Play up! play up! and play the game! " This is the word that year by year, While in her place the School is set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dare forget. This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling fling to the host behind — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 20 - To enjoy our rights and liberties we must understand them ; their security and protection ought to be the first object of a free people; and it is a well established fact that no nation has ever continued long in the enjoyment of civil and political freedom, which was not both virtuous and enlightened; and believing that the advancement of literature always has been, and ever will be, the means of developing more fully the rights of man.
Page 172 - They should put on their leggings, and adjust their shoe-strings. (Sons') wives should serve their parents-in-law as they served their own. At the first crowing of the cock, they should wash their hands, and rinse their mouths; comb their hair, draw over it the covering of silk, fix this with the hair-pin, and tie the hair at the roots with the fillet. They should then put on the jacket, and over it the sash. On the left side they should...
Page 22 - Vocation. — -Vocational education should equip the individual to secure a livelihood for himself and those dependent on him, to serve society well through his vocation, to maintain the right relationships toward his fellow workers and society, and, as far as possible, to find in that vocation his own best development.
Page 20 - To enjoy our rights and liberties, we must understand them; their security and protection ought to be the first object of a free people; and it is a well-established fact that no nation has ever continued long in the enjoyment of civil and political freedom, which was not both virtuous and enlightened; and believing that the advancement of literature always has been, and ever will be the means of developing more fully the rights of man, that the mind of every citizen in a republic is the common property...
Page 22 - ... that inculcates the appreciation of beauty in nature and in art, and insists on the performance of duty to self and to others ; an education that in youth and early manhood, while continuing the work already done, enables the youth to discover his own powers and...
Page 156 - It is a mark which evaluates the accomplishment of the child in terms of his own ability. A brilliant child would no longer be praised for work which in terms of his own effort is 70 per cent perfect, in terms of the group, 90 per cent. The teacher gives him a mark of 90 while we mark him 70. A stupid child who does work which is marked 70 in terms of the class, but 90 in terms of his own, a limited ability, is no longer discouraged.
Page 22 - The education demanded by a democratic society today is an education that prepares a youth to overcome the inevitable difficulties that stand in the way of his material and spiritual advancement; an education that, from the beginning, promotes his normal physical development through the most salutary environment and appropriate physical training; that opens his mind and lets the world in through every natural power of observation and assimilation; that cultivates...
Page 156 - AQ's, are recorded year by year for each pupil. The pupils of great natural ability are required to do enough more than the average to keep their AQ's near 1.

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