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Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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shoulders and blames this onhome environment and preschool training.Few, indeed, there are who can expressthemselves in correct English, or who canuse applied arithmetic with a fair degreeof success. But the high school blamesthese shortcomings on tlio graniniar school.Who, then, is to blame for the fact that thepupils slip through the cultural andhumanistic studies of the high-schoolcurriculum and at the end do not knowreallv how to study, much less how tothink? But technical schools are confrontedwith a condition, and while it may do somegood to point out on whom the blameshould rest, tlioir ininiodiato prolilrm is toturn their volunteers into engineers. Hereare boys applying for a job on a four-yearcontract. Their cliicT work will hr lo thinkand study; to study hard and honestly,to rearrange thoughtfully their accumu-l.-ilod st of el(Mnonfary facts in theproper phalanx to attack more complexproblems. Yet they do not know how to The Literary Digest for March 15, 1919 125
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