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Title: School efficiency; a manual of modern school management
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bennett, Henry Eastman, b. 1873
Subjects: School management and organization School buildings Teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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es, but it cannot be opened withoutmoving everything from the top, the lid may be used as ascreen for mischief, and the box is still in the way of theknees. The book drawer under the seat, common to movablechair-desks, is a great improvement in all these respects.This closes tight and may be made to lock. When it is openit is in full view of the child as he sits at his desk and whenclosed is entirely out of the way. Whatever the style of thebook box, an unending duty of the teacher is to see thatit is properly kept. Each book, tablet, and pencil shouldhave its place and be kept only there while habits of neat-ness are being established. It is disgraceful to find booksdestructively jammed inside of each other or with a monthsaccumulation of trash behind them. Inkwells should be nonbreakable, noncorrosive, easy to filland to clean, and such that they cannot get out of order.Many kinds advertising these virtues are on the market.The better ones are satisfactory if they are cared for, but
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SEATS AM) DESKS 57 none can keep itself in order. Vigilance and supervisionare the price of satisfaction here as elsewhere. With theincreasing use of fountain pens it is desirable that a wellbe used which does not leave an unsightly hole in the topof the desk if permanently removed. Unused wells — inkand otherwise — are ever causing trouble. Movable desks are now largely used for primar)^ andspecial classes. These are movable chairs each having itsown desk-top or writing surface suspended by some more orless successful device. They are gradually replacing fixeddesks in many schools and will doubtless be in general useultimately for all grades. The projecting tops tend to rendersome of them quite unstable. Those which fall over easily area source of annoyance and even of danger in case of panic.The whole idea of childrens seats being screwed immovablyto the floor in rigid lines is repugnant to the modern spiritof school study and government. Group seating should bepossible to make

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