Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Study of School Grounds for the Schools of Michigan
Educational training is the result of a direct and conscious effort on the part of the parent and teacher combined with the indirect result of the surroundings in which the child is placed. The environ ment of the child exerts a greater in?uence on his life than we Educational sometimes think and it is unfortunate that school surround Training. Ings at least are not always such as conduce to a proper desire on his part to be helpful and a still more important desire for better things.
The child may be forced to go to school but he likes school only when it is worth liking, and it is not until he likes it that he learns. The most costly school apparatus will not atone for a cheerless schoolroom and grounds. If daily surrounded by those in?uences that elevate and tend to cleanliness and good order, that cultivate a love of ?owers, good pictures, and proper decorations he will soon reach that degree of culture where nothing else will please him and when he grows up and has a home of his own, the effect of early training will then be seen in the clean, neat yards, good pictures on the walls, shade trees, and ?owers properly arranged around the buildings. These things will be demanded because he has been brought up to be happy in no other environment.
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