“the game for its own sake” represented an extension of rational recreation into the sphere of sports, particularly as developed in thepublic schools, which in this period were reformed so as to institute a sense of public duty and private responsibility among the propertied classes. The cult...
the City of Sin, and fell in love with the streets spectacle. Still, in the 19th century, sidewalk cafés had no future in Anglo-Saxon puritanical countries. Not for a long time. Public lounging while drinking, especially (horror of horrors!) on a Sunday, when every...
Sight reading, which she heartily endorses, has been a dismal failure in the public schools. Her approach to math, I believe, is mediocre when compared to Asian-style conceptual math, an excellent discussion of which can be found in Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers’ ...
except on holidays. Cedarhurst Center for the Arts Cedarhurst Center for the Arts & The Mitchell Museum are best known for their significant collection of late 19th and early 20th century American paintings, exhibitions featuring regional and international artists, a 90 acre sculpture park, ...
听力原文: Public schools in the United States are under the control of the individual states. Sometimes the state hands its control over to a smaller area, a county or city. Most Americans start school at the age of five when they enter kindergarten. Children do not really study at this ...
Dickens describes the holidays as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of other people below them as if they ...