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Title: Blackboard Drawing

Author: Frederick Whitney

Release Date: June 11, 2010 [EBook #32781]

Language: English

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Blackboard Drawing

A MONOGRAPH

BY
FREDERICK WHITNEY

OF THE
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

SIXTH EDITION

PUBLISHED BY
Atkinson, Mentzer & Company
Boston New York Chicago Atlanta Dallas

Copyright, 1902-1903, by The Davis Press
All Rights Reserved

Foreword

This monograph is a reprint of a series of articles first published in the
second volume of the magazine now known as _The School Arts Book_. The
articles attracted wide attention on account of their timeliness and their
illustrations. The plates were made from photographs of actual work upon
the blackboard by Mr. Whitney, and are undoubtedly the most attractive
blackboard drawings ever published. The demand for these articles has been
so great that the original editions have been exhausted. They are
republished in this form in the hope that they may influence yet more
strongly the increasing number of teachers who find the blackboard
indispensable in teaching.

HENRY TURNER BAILEY

September, 1903

BLACKBOARD DRAWING

None of the teachers who read "The School Arts Book" from month to month
doubt in the least the value of drawing in our schools, and there is no
need of the slightest argument in its favor. Even in the lowest grades the
teacher appreciates drawing as the natural expression of the thought and
experience of the child; a spontaneous activity, having its relation to
life, not a thing apart from life or an end in itself. Throughout the
grades the teacher should cultivate this spirit of freedom and interest,
remembering that drawing is a language to be used as naturally and freely
as one written or spoken.

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