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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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se mat-ters, however ; and neither the assertions of anoccasional visitor at Hampton like myself, noryet the evidence of Miss Johnstons remarkablepliotographs, can carry such conviction as comeswith a few hours spent in going from room toroom talking with teachers and pupils and notingthe atmosphere of serenity and happiness thate.xists everywhere. I saw no evidence of pres-sure or anxiety or of that pitiable condition thatresults in schools where leai-ning is merely based upon books and where the supreme test of knowl-edge is the successful passing of examinations. Such tests often seem as if carefully plannedto incite the diligent lialf of the pupils to over-work and nervous break-down, and to tempt theother half either to cheating or else to defiant in-difference. Of all tlie criminal inventions withwhich young people have been tortured in tliesacred name of education, the most diabolicalis the English system of book-cramming anc^l ex-aminations. To say that in s()irit the Hampton
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A CLASS IN AGHICULTURE. 426 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REyiEW OF REVIEiVS.

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