From the Introduction. Joy as a factor in education is too apt to be ignored. Feeling and pleasure are too often counted out as not being related to the needs of the child. Goodnatured merriment is hushed. School is invested with a schoolconsciousness, an insupportable dryness and solemnity which precludes the spontaneous laughter of a normal growth. Discipline is enforced by direct didactic teaching or through sarcasm rather than encouraged by the fun which has no sting in it. There is no writer before the public who has added more to the wholesome humor of the age than Mr. Stocktonno writer whose stories are so full of pure wit, entirely free from poison, and pointing to healthy, happy action, while probing false sentiment. What child could fail to raise his own standard and guard himself against egotism after following Arla through her trials in attempting to regulate the Clocks of Rondaine? What boy could fail to appreciate the sweetness and quiet in the character of the Minor Canon? Every school would be the better for such reading. The notes from the pipes of "Old Pipes" come floating down to me from the happy reading lessons of years ago, when my own pupils loved to read the story. What a happy mood it threw over the schoolroom! It is the realization of a long hope that one of my pupils has selected this story as one that ought to come into an inexpensive schoolbook where children in general may enjoy it. And why should not children have such reading, and have it...

Binding: Paperback;82 pages; Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.; Classification: N/A; Weight: 254.26 g; Dimensions: N/A

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