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The boy or girl in the country does not get a certain type of training 

 to meet life as do city children. They must be helped, therefore, to have 

 a right attitude toward the world and their responsibility to it. They 

 must not evade the world but learn to meet it, to overcome the ill 

 therein and enrich their lives by the good and increase their usefulness. 

 They must learn how serious the petty things of life may become unless 

 one has learned to meet them bravely and adjust them wisely. 



Children should be taught not to be too self opinionated. This often 

 defeats intellectual and social progress. If they will look about them 

 they will find that the more ignorant a man and the more narrow a 

 life he has lived the more belief he has in his own point of view. It is 

 the duty of every individual to get along with his fellow men. The 

 child should realize that if he has no friends something is the matter 

 with him. He may lose one or two through an unfortunate chain of 

 circumstances, but he will not lose all unless he has had a decidedly 

 wrong social attitude. 



It is not necessary to tell a teacher that one means of broadening a 

 mind is through associating with the great intellects of the world. This 

 we may always do through books. A teacher can do much by having 

 a few good books on her desk which the children will see that she cares 

 for. Occasionally she should read to boys and girls passages from her 

 books that she has found helpful. Perhaps she can encourage the chil- 

 dren to commit some of these passages to memory. A row of good 

 books on a teacher's desk will in itself have influence. A copy of Milton 

 or Tennyson or Burns or Whitman or one of the others that have had 

 an influence in the world will give suggestion each day for a higher 

 attitude. Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey and Dickens' Christmas 

 Carol will brighten many an hour in that little school house on the hill. 



