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Show PRACTICAL EDUCATION NO. 3 To fit young people to make their way in the world, careful work with the spelling spel-ling book and with penmanship is needed. need-ed. Many of the most successful men are exceedingly poor writers, and they may be poor spellers. But for the average aver-age person, bad handwriting and spelling give such an impression of illiteracy as to be a distinct handicap. Penmanship instruction is often not practical. Some systems lay great stress on 'ability to write fast, but topmost other oth-er people the important thing is not speed, but to write memoranda and brief notes so as to be clearly legible, and give an impression of business competence. To spend a long time teaching the man who is going to run a machine, or a girl to run a typewriter, to write rapidly with the hand, is highly impractical. Many of the worst difficulties we meet in community life are due to. the fact that the young people have never been educated edu-cated up to the principles of Social Science. Sci-ence. They have not learned, the basic principles" that lead to civic prosperity I and advance. The first principles of Social Science, is that we ave all members of a community, commun-ity, the progress and success of which depend de-pend upon the existence among all of its members, of a spirit of cooperation and community effort. Many of our towns never go ahead, because the people never learned to. cooperate, and never acquired and civic and community spirit. v One of the most important "and practical prac-tical things the young folks have to learn in school, is just this truth of Civics. They need to know something about com-munity com-munity life, what makes some towns go ahead and others stationary, -how we must all take hold and work for public causes. ,, s fl Kk |