Author: Charles A. Bennett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-23

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781334753688

Excerpt from Manual Training Magazine, 1899-1900, Vol. 1 I see now, better than I did then, that I was really getting the lion's share of the profit. I had a kind of pleasure in doing such things for my pupils, and there was a further incentive in the evident pleasure of my pupils in seeing what I did. I did not know it at the time, but as I look back I realize that I must have worked in a spirit more selfish than altruistic. I prized the exhilaration in self that comes from showing novel things to others rather more than the exhilaration in others that comes from finding things out for themselves. At any rate, 1 did not so much ask my pupils to Observe for themselves as I sought to have them see what I saw, and hear what I had to say. 1 was the active one; they were the passive. Had any one said to me at this time, Now what you are doing yourself for your pupils is just what thev ought to be doing themselves, I might have assented to the suggestion as ideally a good one, but I certainly would have scouted it as impracticable. The schoolhouse where I taught was not adapted to such work; the com mittee had no money for it; the public would not stand the expense of it; pupils would cut, burn and poison themselves in doing it; parents. Could not see the sense of it, and would not tolerate the thought of it; I had no time to give to it it was all I could do to keep my head above water with my own humble undertakings. I presume, however, it was. Not the result Of any conscious decision on my part that I did not, as a matter Of fact, stir up a hornet's nest of protests in the matter, but sim ply held my peace and kept on doing experiments in a desultory way, as I had begun.r 899] the MA nual tra [ni/vg [dea 3. 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.