Excerpt from Special Days in School: With Literary SelectionsThe aim in these exercises should not be to exhibit the school or simply to please the parents, but all special-day exercises should be the outgrowth of special study, in some line, and should be given to fix the important points in that study more firmly in the minds of the children.No extra time need? Be given in preparing for the pro grammes. The poems may be learned as class exercises, the songs may be part'o-f the daily' music lesson, and from time to time the best reproduction or essay in the written language lesson may be laid aside to be read on the day appointed for the special exercises.Only the best in literature should be given to the children, and that in the most impressive manner. By the special-day exercises we may greatly strengthen the impressions made by our history and literature lessons, and we may set before the children grand ideals of patriotism, courage, loyalty, good living and true ambition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.