The Normal School Bulletin, 1908-1916

Download or read book The Normal School Bulletin, 1908-1916 written by Eastern Illinois State Normal School and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Normal School Bulletin, 1908-1916: Nos. 23-53 In the first place, let me make myself perfectly clear upon what I mean by the word useful. What, after all, is the useful study in our schools? What do men find to be the useful thing in their lives? The most natural answer to this question is that the useful things are those that en able us to meet effectively the conditions of life, - or, to use a phrase that is perfectly clear to us all, the things that help us in getting a living. The vast majority of men and women in this world measure all value by this standard for most of us are, to use the expressive slang of the day, up against this problem, and up against it so hard and so constantly that we interpret everything in the greatly foreshortened perspective of immediate necessity. Most of us in this room are confronting this problem of making a living. At any rate, I am confronting it, and consequently I may lay claim to some of the authority that comes from experience. 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.