Books and Reading for the Young; A Reprint from a State Report - Softcover

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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. 1880. Excerpt: ... ment of capacity for mischief; that to make a working library, something more--much more--is necessary than simply to pile books together; that libraries can not be left to run themselves any longer; that with enlargement of sphere and increasing complication of machinery there have come increased responsibility and a vastly increased demand for skill and knowledge and judgment in the management of so potent an instrumentality. The officers of the law and the public press can do much, but parents and teachers can do more. To teachers and parents I therefore appeal. III. WHAT CAN BE DONE BY THE TEACHER. I. THE DUTY OF THE TEACHER. It is not enough that our instructors teach children to read. They must teach them what to read and how to read. Teachers must cultivate in the children a taste for that which is wholesome. They must introduce their pupils to the best thoughts of the best authors. It is not enough that the teacher point to the library. Public libraries contain good books, but they contain many books that are worthless, and some that are worse than worthless. The teacher must go with the pupil to the library and show him what to get, and how to use it after he gets it. The public library will not take the place of the teacher; on the contrary the multiplication of books and papers and the establishment of libraries make it necessary that we have better teachers and more of them. I quote from a lecture recently delivered before the teachers of Quincy, by Charles Francis Adams, Jr: It is the fault of a system which brings a community up in the idea that a poor knowledge of the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic constitutes in itself an education. Now, on the contrary, it seems to me that the true object of all your labors as real teachers,...

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