| | 465 | Author: | Kelly, Myra, 1876-1910 | Add | | | Title: | A Christmas Present for a Lady  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was the week before Christmas, and the First Reader Class, in a lower
East Side school, had, almost to a man, decided on the gifts to be lavished
on "Teacher." She was quite unprepared for any such observance on the part
of her small adherents, for her first study of the roll book had shown her
that its numerous Jacobs, Isidores, and Rachels belonged to a class to which
Christmas Day was much as other days. And so she went serenely on her way,
all unconscious of the swift and strict relation between her manner and her
chances. She was, for instance, the only person in the room who did not know
that her criticism of Isidore Belchatosky's hands and face cost her a tall
"three for ten cents" candlestick and a plump box of candy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 469 | Author: | Key, Ellen | Add | | | Title: | The Education of the Child | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | GOETHE showed long ago in his Werther a
clear understanding of the significance of
individualistic and psychological training, an
appreciation which will mark the century of
the child. In this work he shows how the future
power of will lies hidden in the characteristics
of the child, and how along with every
fault of the child an uncorrupted germ capable
of producing good is enclosed. "Always,"
he says, "I repeat the golden words of the
teacher of mankind, `if ye do not become as
one of these,' and now, good friend, those who
are our equals, whom we should look upon as
our models, we treat as subjects; they should
have no will of their own; do we have none?
Where is our prerogative? Does it consist in
the fact that we are older and more
experienced? Good God of Heaven! Thou seest
old and young children, nothing else. And in
whom Thou hast more joy, Thy Son announced
ages ago. But people believe in Him and do
not hear Him—that, too, is an old trouble,
and they model their children after themselves."
The same criticism might be applied to our
present educators, who constantly have on
their tongues such words as evolution, individuality,
and natural tendencies, but do not
heed the new commandments in which they say
they believe. They continue to educate as if
they believed still in the natural depravity of
man, in original sin, which may be bridled,
tamed, suppressed, but not changed. The new
belief is really equivalent to Goethe's thoughts
given above, i.e., that almost every fault is but
a hard shell enclosing the germ of virtue.
Even men of modern times still follow in education
the old rule of medicine, that evil must
be driven out by evil, instead of the new
method, the system of allowing nature quietly
and slowly to help itself, taking care only
that the surrounding conditions help the work
of nature. This is education. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 470 | Author: | Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 | Add | | | Title: | The economic consequences of the peace | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a
marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with
conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated,
unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organisation by
which Western Europe has lived for the last half century. We
assume some of the most peculiar and temporary of our late
advantages as natural, permanent, and to be depended on, and we
lay our plans accordingly. On this sandy and false foundation we
scheme for social improvement and dress our political platforms,
pursue our animosities and particular ambitions, and feel
ourselves with enough margin in hand to foster, not assuage,
civil conflict in the European family. Moved by insane delusion
and reckless self-regard, the German people overturned the
foundations on which we all lived and built. But the spokesmen of
the French and British peoples have run the risk of completing
the ruin which Germany began, by a peace which, if it is carried
into effect, must impair yet further, when it might have
restored, the delicate, complicated organisation, already shaken
and broken by war, through which alone the European peoples can
employ themselves and live. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 471 | Author: | King, Captain Charles | Add | | | Title: | Custer's Last Battle | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT is hard to say how many years ago the Dakotas of the upper
Mississippi, after a century of warring with the Chippewa nation,
began to swarm across the Missouri in search of the buffalo, and
there became embroiled with other tribes claiming the country
farther west. Dakota was the proper tribal name, but as they
crossed this Northwestern Rubicon into the territory of unknown
foemen they bore with them a title given them as far east as the
banks and bluffs of the Father of Waters. The Chippewas had called
them for years "the Sioux" (Soo), and by that strange un-Indian-sounding title is known to this day the most numerous and powerful
nation of red people—warriors, women, and children—to be found on
our continent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 479 | Author: | La Flesche, Francis | Add | | | Title: | The Story of a Vision | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | EACH of us, as we gathered at the lodge of our story teller at dusk,
picked up an armful of wood and entered. The old man who was
sitting alone, his wife having gone on a visit, welcomed us with a
pleasant word as we threw the wood down by the fire-place and
busied ourselves rekindling the fire. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 480 | Author: | Labriola, Antonio, 1843-1904 | Add | | | Title: | Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In three years we can celebrate our jubilee. The memorable date of
publication of the Communist Manifesto (February, 1848) marks our first
unquestioned entrance into history. To that date are referred all our
judgments and all our congratulations on the progress made by the
proletariat in these last fifty years. That date marks the beginning of
the new era. This is arising, or, rather, is separating itself from the
present era, and is developing by a process peculiar to itself and thus
in a way that is necessary and inevitable, whatever may be the
vicissitudes and the successive phases which cannot yet be foreseen. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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