AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



your broken discipline or offended dignity. Each 

 day clean the slate of his misdeeds. Have peace 

 between you and welcome him each morning with 

 a large hopefulness for his future. Be merciful, 

 — for he may encounter only indifference or neg- 

 lect or temper at home. These do not grow easier 

 to bear by frequent experience, and in all classes. 



Normal Student's Home Garden, Washington, D. C. 



children receive occasionally the equivalent of the 

 quick blow or the gruff command. The habitual 

 courtesy of teacher to teacher and to child fmds 

 itself reflected in deference and gentleness of mood 

 in the child, though sometimes expressed in far 

 from polished phrase or gesture. 



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