Tag: school
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Why Some Children Are Always Lazy
Maybe your child isn’t deliberately lazy. He might just be defective. Keeping in mind that a healthy child takes 8 years to complete 8 school grades, you can use this handy guide to see how long it might take your child to finish school, depending on what kind of defect your child has: Defective vision: […]
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Odd Rentals That Are Paid For Famous Properties
This article is all about weird things that are paid for rent of a building, usually by a group or organization. Just before the article was written, Flint Union School in Michigan made a great deal with the landowner: a 99-year lease in exchange for a single clover blossom each year. This means the lease […]
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“Little Mothers” Write Playlets With Helpful Plots
The Little Mothers’ League was a club for girls in public school that taught them how to properly care for babies. Started in 1910 by Sara Josephine Baker, the idea wasn’t as much to prepare them to be parents themselves, but to give them the means to help their parents by taking care of their […]
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Good School Lunches For Three Cents Prove A Success
It’s nice to read an account of a School Lunch Committee that cares about affordable nutrition in schools where poor children are often malnourished. For a child who is really very ill-nourished one meal a day is not the solution of all its troubles, but it goes a good way toward helping. Moreover, the luncheons […]
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Sunday Schools That Teach Children Anarchy
I saw this headline and I thought it was just some overblown sensationalism. But then I read the article, and it turns out they’re literally talking about anarchist-run schools. In particular, they point out the a particular Sunday School on Avenue A, run by Alexander Berkmann, a “leading member of the anarchist movement in the […]
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Is Coeducation A Failure? Tufts And Pennington Say “Yes”
[T]he committee said that it had held personal conversation upon the matter with a large number of members of the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Each and every one gave it as his opinion, formed carefully and deliberately after several years’ teaching and observation, that the interests of both men and women would be best served […]
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Schoolboys Learn To Make Air Ships
It had been less than seven years since the Wright brothers flew the first airplane, but already kids gathered in after school clubs learning to build their own working models. The boy inventor is not hindered by patent restrictions of any kind. He is free to copy any model he sees fit, and the cheapness […]
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