Group Teaching in Wartime
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The coming of war has forced us to rediscover the merits of many discarded ways of living in all departments of life. In the realm of education, the emergency improvisation of home teaching units took us back temporarily to the days of the old dame school, but now that the first few weeks of initial disorganization which brought these to life have passed, the experience has left some of us with very serious doubts as to the superior merits of our modern large homogeneous classes and of that other distinctively modern institution, the school of from 300 to 400 children to which
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