Civic Work Civic Lessons

Author : Hannah Margaret Harris
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ISBN 13 : 9781331267805
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Lessons in Civics for the Three Primary Grades of City Schools (Classic Reprint) written by Hannah Margaret Harris and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lessons in Civics for the Three Primary Grades of City Schools Children's experience the basis of instruction. Instruction in civics must be based on the children's experiences and should result not only in giving clearer and fuller information, but also in creating the mental attitudes and habitual acts that characterize good citizenship at the given age. It is to small purpose, for instance, that a child learns of the organization and work of the Street Cleaning Department if at the same time he continues to be careless about throwing banana skins around. Materials that have place in an elementary civics course. In planning a course in civics for young children there is a temptation to overload it with facts which will be forgotten before they are ever used. We have repeatedly to remind ourselves that any material which has a legitimate place in the course holds that place because it is related to some "civic situation" in which a child is normally to be found, and his reaction to which is capable of being modified by a "civics lesson." Of this sort of material there is no lack. The children of our city schools have many experiences of civic significance upon which instruction can be based; and there are many opportunities for instruction to be immediately applied, greatly to the advantage of themselves, of the city, and of the nation. For example, all city children, even the youngest in school, have had their interest and curiosity aroused by the sight of a burning building and of a fire engine and crew dashing to the rescue. Here is an experience which can be so interpreted and enlarged upon that children still too young for the study of municipal organization may be led to refrain from playing with fire and to regard firemen as heroes to be obeyed and to be emulated in coolness and courage. If these effects are produced upon the habits of thought and action of a large number of small children, who can doubt that the result will be not only a considerable safe-guard to these individual children, but also an actual decrease in fire loss, and, in the long run, an appreciable gain to the resources of the nation in property and lives? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.