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Caption: Booklet - Element of Inspiration in the Schools (1902)
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' * \ I \ I \ I»I w] h ' ,ls ' S f| M *' w ' ds. Let us not v ni h i lu ! n : ' ,in ' the lernte demand of their di andei tand the I idenci< md the claim i hoolfl which in M M i thai tl I phi] I expr ! v i ii j hing before thei |.h\, and before method v -I in r u l e s . T h i s d o c s no! di -Ii '" >ri hi ind ii I Q reflection on the training in which ha I us from chaos in i he centei 1 pu 1 in the lar bools al least. It only m ins 1 1 h» aitiv< had lier task i han R ha T >uld stir < husi m easier than we. Teachingdep idi ater tl pupil. T1M- interesl of pupil depend I ion of he subj ind i he spirit of i he teacher. The ti ubte with th iter number of hildren in our lar ds is t it they ne\ enthusiasm over anything. Th \ lr n. h, dead lei In becaus not iouch d h the vital rk which would start their machinery into Th :her the earlj schools worked directly with tl lividu I pupil, unders >od him betl r, and was mo b] i he things which would Are his soul, i r tl 8r-l wen small. i. flail qu tion we are trying to do too many things. The q k which a child docs under dure* 3 not so that b ahall do something because he lil < to do ani it. Befoi he in lik to do ii he must l ible to mast r it .|v> ii must be abh to have the satisfaction oi i full , ,. crow 11, depends on the power to do. The power t< i ()I1 fl0i, . it is not the doing of this particular thing u that it "oi following pres ribed formulas containing so [n , ,|,j or that; it is finding pleasure In the doing mal ,(,-,, 0 that one comes to do it easily and acquii B tin ()J (1 Il(j the power to do something harder, That is growth i r l v teacher could choose work suited to particul.u pUp ;iII( j W;IS free to do It, for he was a law unto himself ,. .her and pupil worked together on subjects which Ul ,j ,,1,1 master and which they therefor* enjoyed, Thej he phil
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