What the People Say

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

What the People Say

Myrta M. Kellogg, Educational Secretary of the North Michigan Conference, writes of the True Education Reader Series, "I am glad that we have a book to place in the hands of the teachers which is in line with the more advanced methods of teaching. The inexperienced teacher can scarcely fail in teaching from such a book, and one who has taught longer will certainly find this book a joy to her heart. I am especially pleased with the large place which has been given to phonic work. The subject matter is most excellent. The seat work will be a great help, especially to the busy teacher who must handle many grades, as so many of our church-school teachers do."

R. B. Thurber, Superintendent of Department of Education for the East Michigan Conference, writes, "A copy of your recent publication—True Education Reader No. 1—has just come to hand, and I have examined it closely. I take pleasure in complimenting you upon the excellent contents and good binding of the book. This is what we have needed. On account of past experience I can appreciate this good series of readers. It is the best ever for our church schools. You may count on the church schools in this conference taking a large number of these books. I hope that these readers will accomplish their mission in the educational work."

Prof. I. C. Coleord, Educational Secretary of the California-Nevada Conference, upon receipt of True Education Readers, writes, "As I unwrapped the package and saw what it was, I said, 'The thing attempted has been achieved;' we now have readers that at once have our confidence, knowing that they are safe, because they contain the truth. I trust that our church schools everywhere will avail themselves of these readers."

W. D. Curtis, Educational Secretary of the Lake Union Conference, writes, "I have examined books 1 and 2 of the True Education Reader Series, and am pleased with the mechanical make-up. They are of a convenient size, and seem to be well bound, two very important points in text-books for primary grades. The paper is good, the type large and clear, and the illustrations attractive.

"The development, which means much to the teacher, is worthy of more than a passing notice. The phonic, word, and sentence methods are the most natural, and hence most readily grasped by the pupil. His ear is trained by the phonics, and his eye by the word and sentence methods.

"The plan of correlating language, geography, spelling, writing, physiology, Bible nature, and to a certain extent, number work, is one which will be hailed with delight by the over-burdened teacher; as at least a partial emancipation from an overcrowded daily program, while the patrons will accept it as an economical feature of the Series.

"Another very praiseworthy feature of the readers is, the authors, in the selection of subject-matter, have drawn from the true and beautiful in nature and the Bible. This is so far removed from the general plan of the school readers now on the market, which are filled with fairy tales, adventures, and fiction, that the True Education Reader Series occupies a unique position in the field.

"Your readers will doubtless come into general use."

A leader in the church-school work writes, "I feel that your readers will prove a great blessing to our primary school work. They will fill a place that has not been filled in the history of our schools. They ought to come into general use in the schools of this denomination."