Arms and the Boy: Military Training in Schools and Colleges; Its Value in Peace and Its Importance in War With...

Arms and the Boy: Military Training in Schools and Colleges; Its Value in Peace and Its Importance in War With...
ISBN-10
1331257069
ISBN-13
9781331257066
Category
Education
Pages
456
Language
English
Published
2015-07-12
Author
L. R. Gignilliat

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Excerpt from Arms and the Boy: Military Training in Schools and Colleges; Its Value in Peace and Its Importance in War With Many Practical Suggestions for the Course of Training and With Brief Descriptions of the Most Successful Systems Now in Operation At the inauguration of President Wilson I was in Washington and attended a theatrical performance in the New National Theater. Just before the play began, the Culver cadets, who were in Washington in a body, marched into the theater and occupied a dozen rows of seats which had been reserved for them in front. Their behavior was so conspicuously considerate of the rights of others, their appearance so winsome and fine, and their courtesy so genuine, that I have ever since had a strong feeling that whatever might be true of military training for boys in some places, that given at Culver must be based upon a real understanding of the process by which boy-material is fashioned into manhood. Now I have been permitted to read the proof sheets of this book by Colonel L. R. Gignilliat on Arms and the Boy, and to say a word to introduce it to its readers. Of all callings, it has sometimes seemed to me that that of he headmaster of a secondary school for boys is at once the most responsible and the most delightful; delightful because he contact there is with the spirit of youth as it is beginning to measure itself against the task of life, and responsible because the problem is so subtle, requires so much understanding of personal variation and difference, and also because of the fact that a mistake made with a boy is so much more serious than a mistake made with a man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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