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EACH year now sees more attention given to school exercises in the various subjects of the curriculum which demand the employment of the hands as well as the brains of the children. Teachers of experience under stand that young pupils learn best by doing, and this view gains ground everywhere. Mr. Lay in this book describes for the benefit of other teachers how he has succeeded in giving reality to lessons in arithmetic, history, geography, and so on, by constructive work of an interesting kind, so graduated that the method may be em ployed with children from five to fourteen years of age. The book may be commended to the notice of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses as an example of what can be done with very little expenditure to make elementary education less bookish and unreal.
The Teachers' Book of Constructive Work for Elementary Schools.
By Ed. J. S. Lay. Pp. xii + 142. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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The Teachers' Book of Constructive Work for Elementary Schools . Nature 89, 528 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089528c0
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