ISBN: 9780217557610

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrat… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV TEACHING Education''s last word is work. For when necessity tugs, a man or woman stretches to fit its measure. Hence, the problem of a wise choice of occupation resolves itself into finding Vone''s point of greatest natural elasticity. But since many people give equally well in more than one direction, inquiry must often shift to the varying merits of different kinds of work. Some pursuits, by drawing more vigorously than others on the whole nature, afford a more liberal education. Miss Lyon arrived at the opinion that a woman, capable of teaching and having taught well, is ready for any other sphere of usefulness. The theory betrays itself so frankly as one of the ripe fruits of experience as to play no part among the factors operative on her own decision. Nor was she inevitably a teacher, except in that broad sense in which she said, Teaching is really the business of almost every useful woman. Were she living to-day, one cannot readily picture her a pedagogue. In any corner of history she would have done the unexploited thing. Liking for unworn ways ran in her blood; her eldest sister had taught with repute in Buckland. She knew what it meant to hunger and thirst after knowledge, and her home had bred her to generosity. Youth''s most pressing engagement is with acquisition, but Mary Lyon never cared to keep it alone. Even in the enchanted days at Byfield she wanted to share her good things. The son of the family with which she boarded, a delicate boy of ten or twelve years, and much of a stay-at-home, wrote after the span of a lifetime, I have not wholly forgotten some not very successful experiments in teaching grammar which she volunteered upon myself. Some tears resulted from the operation, if not much learning, though she was all patience an... Beth Bradford Gilchrist, Books, Biography and Memoir, The life of Mary Lyon Books>Biography and Memoir This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Houghton Mifflin company in 1910 in 507 pages; Subjects: Women college administrators; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Education / Higher; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; Education / Professional Development; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies; Study Aids / College Guides;<