Excerpt from Fundamentals in Methods: In Elementary Schools
The author has long been impressed with the poor methods and the lack of genuine efficiency in elementary schools everywhere, both rural and urban. Having been a teacher and supervisor of both kinds of schools, he feels that this observation and experience at first hand enable him to speak with some knowledge of the facts; and he hopes that his message may be of some value to the elementary teachers of the country. Moreover, he takes a deep and special interest in the rural and elementary schools generally, and any adverse criticisms of the work done there are given in a friendly spirit and for a constructive purpose. The aim is to help and not to find fault.
The elementary school, urban and rural, is the foundation, the full basement, on which the superstructure of all higher education must be raised. Whether pupils are to live their lives in this basement or whether they are to erect upon it a one-story cottage in the form of secondary education or a two-story dwelling of college education, the foundation and basement should be of the best. It is in the interest of this foundation, "lest we forget, lest we forget," in its best construction, that this little volume is addressed to elementary teachers.
In accordance with the law of habit we become enamored of our own thought and action. They commend themselves to us more and more as we proceed.
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