7-140=277+ V Apul 28, 1903 Dept. of Education Library, TRANSFERRED TO MARVARD GOLLEGE LIBRARY 1931 OF INTEREST TO YOU We have a more thoroughly perfected system and better facilities for furnishing promptly books of all publishers than any other house in the country. Our business is divided into departments, each under a superintendent, so that every detail is carefully looked after. We deal only in School and College books, of which we carry an immense stock. We are able to supply at re duced prices any schoolbook published. We issue a complete catalogue of these books, with a classified index. Send for one. HINDS & NOBLE New York City ΤΟ DR. EDWARD ORTON, PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY IN OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, AND STATE GEOLOGIST OF OHIO, WHOSE EXAMPLE AND WHOSE WORDS TO ME HAVE EVER BEEN THE PARENT IN RELATION TO CHARACTER BUILDING, They Can Provide Good School Houses-Secure the Best Teachers-Let Children Have Time to Go to School- Furnish Children with Books, Papers, and Magazines at Home Furnish the Children with Proper Games and Amusements-Train the Children to Habits of Saving and Industry-Send the Children to College-Look to the Companions of the Children---Teach the Children to Put PREFACE. This volume is designed for young people, their teachers, and their parents. Many of its precepts are garnered from addresses which the author has delivered at divers times and places. Most of the selections and quotations will be appreciated as memory gems which may be used as exercises in the schoolroom-for reading aloud, or committing to memory, or even for informal discussion. "The Christian teacher of a band of children," says Dr. Holland, " combines the office of preacher and parent, and has more to do in shaping the mind and morals of the community than preacher and parent combined." The teacher impresses his predominant purpose upon the school. It has been my design to emphasize the fact that character building is the purpose which should be uppermost in the mind of the teacher. The principles which we wish to implant in character, we must inculcate in our schools. If as teachers and parents we permit selfishness, dishonesty, and sham in our children, we need not wonder if we see these things in society and in the world. "Let not unskillful hands Attempt to play the harp whose tones Are left forever in the strings." The hearty reception accorded the first edition of this work has encouraged the publication of this new and larger volume. C. S. C. |