Bookless Lessons: For the Teacher-Mother. E-book. Formato PDF Ella Frances Lynch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

"I want to teach my children, but am I really clever enough to be a teacher?"It is not the cleverest teacher, but the best teacher, that the home needs. A great linguist may be totally unable to make others learn the elements of a language, a great musician may lack every single qualification as a teacher of beginners. It is not merely cleverness or a knack of arousing enthusiasm that marks the good teacher, not high scholarship nor commanding intellect, but patience and perseverance in making children do the same things day after day, exactly so. It is this making that is the backbone of education.The child who is sent to school before learning to obey, to pay attention, to apply himself, is for the time being unteachable. No school can entirely repair the damage wrought by wrong training or neglect during the first seven years of life.Here is a test of the mother's ability to conduct her own kindergarten:Can you teach your children the Lord's Prayer?Can you teach them to sew on buttons? to tie a Knot? to set the table? to use a broom? to draw a straight line?Can you teach them the names of the birds that visit your yard? the trees and flowers growing near your home? the common garden vegetables? the six basic colors?Can you teach them Mother Goose rhymes?

Educating the Child at Home: Personal Training the Work Habit. E-book. Formato PDF Ella Frances Lynch   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Secondly. To help mothers to resume and do their sacred duty by their children instead of shirking it and delegating it to the school. All that I have written is based upon actual practical experience and study. Like the long search for the Promised Land is the search for an efficient School, while the great opportunity of home instruction and education is ignored. Where shall I find the best school for my children? Teach them yourself the things you know and can do.