The book Mind in the Making; a Study in Mental Development was written by author Edgar James Swift Here you can read free online of Mind in the Making; a Study in Mental Development book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Mind in the Making; a Study in Mental Development a good or bad book?
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The houses that children build, the caves that they dig, the mysterious and secret alphabets that they invent, and by means of which they carry on cor^ respondence with one another about war measures against the enemy, are not easy, but they are pleasant. The writer once knew a group of half a dozen boys who invented an alphabet the intricacies of which would have brought the blush of shame to the cheeks of the Phoenicians who devised our own, were diflSculty in acquisition the issue; and yet t...hey spent their Saturdays editing a paper printed in those marvellous hieroglyph- ics. Suppose this alphabet had been introduced into the school, and the boys had been reproved or kept after school for not mastering it. Much of the work that children call play is just as hard as any that is given them in the school-room. The attitude of the teacher makes the difference. Primitive man did not distinguish between work and play, and children do 114 MIND IN THE MAKING not until the distinction is forced upon them.
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