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Excerpt from Educative Seat Work
The country teacher's problem, then, is not merely to furnish work that will keep her pupils busy. It is to furnish work that will keep them profitably busy, that will continue to educate them along right lines in the between-recitation, as well as in the recitation period. The importance of a solution Of this problem is evident when one considers that in the average one room school the younger pupils receive from half an hour to an hour and a half Of teaching a day, and that approximately five sixths Of their time is spent in independent occupation or else in idleness. If the country child is to be educated six sixths.
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