Download or read book Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School (Classic Reprint) written by Effie Young Slusser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School Educational methods have changed. Fifty years ago the education of children was on the theory that they were all naturally bad, while to - day it has dawned upon teachers and also the public that there are both good and bad ten dencies in every child, and that education should not at tempt to make children over according to rule. They should be led to love and cherish and cultivate the best tendencies, while the undesirable ones will fade from neglect and lack of encouragement. Mother Nature teaches many a lesson not to be learned in school. True education should pro mote a happy, development along the natural tendencies rather than provide punishments for not bending to arbi trary rules to be obeyed. To be sure, discipline is needed, but it should be along natural lines of development, rather than by the too arbitrary Thou shalt, and thou shalt not. A child should fully realize that greatly upon his own actions and character depend his own happiness or punish ment, thus fewer laws and rules would be necessary. Mod ern educational methods rely more upon a fundamental love of nature and of our fellow-travellers through life than upon force, punishment, and the ability to learn certain generally accepted forms of words and phrases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.