Framingham State University - Dial Yearbook (Framingham, MA)

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22 The Poetry and 'Prose of Courses of Study There came into the school not long ago a bulletin from one of the western normal schools. The western normal schools are wide-awake in- stitutions. This bulletin was upon Courses of Study for the Training De- partment. The statements concerning each course was opened, almost always, with some quotation concerning the subject to be treated. They are so good that we are giving some for your future consideration. GEOGRAPHY. Step by step the conviction dawns upon the learner that, to attain to even an elementary conception of what goes on in his parish, he must know something about the universe. H uxley. HISTORY. We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in our se- cret experience, or we shall see nothing, learn nothing, keep nothing. Emerson. ELEMENTARY SCIENCE. One momenthnow may give us more Than years of toiling reason: Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season. W adslvarth. READING AND LITERATURE. Literature is the embodiment of ideal beauty in human speech. Crawshanv. --il.-l LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR. .Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.

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21 Though we may admire their superior quickness and vivacity, still we would dread to think how easily these may degenerate into positive faults. But do we ever find in such children any failings which a just, reason- able, firm, though gentle government, appropriate to their needs and years, might have corrected, had they been subjected to it from the beginning? If so, then we may well recommend the application of discipline according to the ideas of Froebel,-satisfied that such discipline will bring poise, calmness, self-control, self-forgetfulness, and helpfulnessg and that there- fore the kindergarten is especially well fitted for the coming citizen of a re- public. Not only is the kindergarten a school of citizenship, but it is a school of patriotism also, for it trains the child from the beginning in the history of his country, so far as his undeveloped powers are able to receive it, and places before him in the national hero-stories, an ideal toward which he may struggle in the future. It is a great principle of the kindergarten that labor is not the curse but the blessing of mankind: that all development and all highest enjoy- ment of life comes to each person through what he can do to express his own mind. , So the children are set to learn by doing, and the idea of industry in their education has its relation not directly to the work which they may do in mature years, but to the desire and intention of enabling them to think each for himself. K. M. whoso loves a child loves not himself but God, whoso delights a child, labors with God in his workshop of the world of hearts. Whoso helps a child brings the Kingdom of God. Whoso saves a child from the fingers of evil sits in the seat with the builders of cities and the procurers of peace. vf, f ' c -N -z...--'21, - s - - c so , 2 . . A V 'Qi -

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23 ARITHMETIC. The science of Arithmetic is one of the purest products of human thought. Brooks. H. W lfi If I Knew You If I knew you and you knew me, 'Tis seldom we would disagree. But, never having yet clasped hands, Both often fail to understand That each intends to do what's right And trust each other honor bright. How little to complain there'd be If I knew you, and you knew me. Whene'er I'm rude, just by mistake, Cr in recitation some error make, From imitation we'd be free, If I knew you, and you knew me. Or when my papers are not on time And, sometimes I write nary a line, You'd wait without anxiety, If I knew you and you knew me. Or when some papers you hand back Or make a kick on this or that We'd take it in good part, you see If I knew you and you knew me. With teachers numbering twenty strong Occasionally things do go wrong- Sometimes our fault,-sometimes theirs- Forbearence would decrease all cares. Kind friend, how pleasant things would be If I knew you and you knew me. K. L. M.