The School City
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I prefer the other kind of teacher who does not tyran- nize, so to speak, over the child's mind either by fear or by alfection and does not insist on the self-effacement of the child in the presence of the school. The teacher should encourage step by step self-activity on the part of the pupil, but he should not go so far as to undertake to make the child as- sume dramatically the role of free citizen, for this is to learn to play a part, conform- THE SCHOOL CITY 15 ing one's self to an externa...l model as an ideal. The empty declamation of a speech by Chat- ham or Burke or Daniel Webster, dramati- cally adopting the supposed manner and reproducing the situation, is not a process of cultivating the true individuality of the child but of cultivating only the ability to imitate and to play a role for the sake of producing an appearance rather than the reality of earnestness and wisdom.
All phases of self-government in schools, such for instance as self -reporting and civic self-government, require the^ utmost vigi- 16 THE SCHOOL CITY lance of a teacher wlio posaeases what I call, for want of a better name, this hypnotic power or weight of immediate personal influence sufficient to sway his pupils, and such a teacher cannot loosen for a moment his hold over his pupils without letting into the organization these evil influences which I have described above.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I prefer the other kind of teacher who does not tyran- nize, so to speak, over the child's mind either by fear or by alfection and does not insist on the self-effacement of the child in the presence of the school. The teacher should encourage step by step self-activity on the part of the pupil, but he should not go so far as to undertake to make the child as- sume dramatically the role of free citizen, for this is to learn to play a part, conform- THE SCHOOL CITY 15 ing one's self to an externa...l model as an ideal. The empty declamation of a speech by Chat- ham or Burke or Daniel Webster, dramati- cally adopting the supposed manner and reproducing the situation, is not a process of cultivating the true individuality of the child but of cultivating only the ability to imitate and to play a role for the sake of producing an appearance rather than the reality of earnestness and wisdom.
All phases of self-government in schools, such for instance as self -reporting and civic self-government, require the^ utmost vigi- 16 THE SCHOOL CITY lance of a teacher wlio posaeases what I call, for want of a better name, this hypnotic power or weight of immediate personal influence sufficient to sway his pupils, and such a teacher cannot loosen for a moment his hold over his pupils without letting into the organization these evil influences which I have described above.
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