Back to the Soil Or From Tenement House to Farm Colony a Circular Solution of
Back to the Soil Or From Tenement House to Farm Colony a Circular Solution of
Bradley Gilman
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However, this word " education " leads me to explain at some length the important place which this matter took in the life of our colony. CHAPTER VH. EDUCATION SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS. I HAD felt from the first that we must use the greatest wisdom and care in our educa tional work. Although the people who made up our colony were, in a sense, acknowledged failures, unable to meet the exacting demands of city life, yet my study of the laws of heredity led me to know that their children might develo...p capacities far in advance of the parents. We therefore felt the obliga tion of furnishing good instruction for them, so that any latent talent which they might have might be encouraged and developed. Our schoolhouse was the last of our " pub lic buildings, " as we called them, to be finished. But, as we did not satisfy our selves at once regarding teachers, we were not greatly disturbed by the delay. The 166 EDUCATION. 157 teacher whom we at first engaged did not prove a success. She was well trained in the simple branches of knowledge which she was expected to teach, but she was practically an invalid, and unable to cope with the bois terous spirits of the boys and girls.
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