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Excerpt from The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index The school Of the past, and Often that Of the present, has sought to produce the adult by fertiliz ing the child with arithmetic, grammar, geography, and language. The process resulted in all kinds Of crooked, stunted, Oblique growth, the greatest assortment Of sports (to [use a horticultural term) the world has ever seen. It isn't intellectual food the child needs most (though some 15 very necessary); the real need is intensive cultivation. Within himself he possesses, like the young plant, great potential strength and virility, enough to produce a Splendid bemg absolutely at one with his time and surroundings; he simply requires the chance to use the knowledge and Opportunities which lie at hand. It is, then, the common subjects Of every-day interest science, business, nature and the like which are the sources of knowledge which has greatest worth to children.$ They are the valuable ones because they are of the type which first attracts and holds the child's attention; they are concrete. Through them one may learn lan guage and expression, because one has something worth saying. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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