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NATURE STUDY IN THE GRADES. *
Author(s) -
RUTLEDGE LINCOLN M.
Publication year - 1904
Publication title -
school science and mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1949-8594
pISSN - 0036-6803
DOI - 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1904.tb00758.x
Subject(s) - citation , principal (computer security) , library science , psychology , mathematics education , computer science , operating system
The child in our city school leads a life essentially artificial. Too often is his home an apartment house or flat; he has no yard; his only playground is a gymnasium, and he seeks to relieve the nervous strain under which he lives hy turning to the theater or social functions for his recreation. This child is often anaemic^ is selfish and irritable, and his interest in school work is largely perfunctory. The country child coming in to the district school, while of sturdier frame than his city cousin, is too often not one whit better off. So many times patterning after his elders, he measures everything in life by the standard of dollars and cents and has only indifference or contempt, for anything which does not possess a clearly defined utilitarian value. Alas! How" sa d it is to think that so many of both classes reach years of maturity and yet are, as Whittier so truly says,