AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



sharing plans, present or future, with fellow work- 

 ers, and considerate with assistants and children 

 while they are carrying out the scheme of work 

 outlined for them — for here, weather interrup- 

 tions, human frailty and the unexpected some- 

 times dislocate the best laid plans. Nowhere is 



Thinning his Plants 



there greater need for care in selecting the per- 

 sonnel of a teaching staff; nowhere does char- 

 acter count more than in the intimacy between 

 children and teachers which the garden fosters. 

 Tact, good judgment, justice, firmness, gentleness, 

 directness, sympathetic understanding of child 

 nature, normal sensibilities, a wholesome sense of 



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