The Mentor: Two Early German Painters, Dürer and Holbein, Vol. 1, Num. 48, Serial No. 48 — John Shaqi
The Mentor: Two Early German Painters, Dürer and Holbein, Vol. 1, Num. 48, Serial No. 48Mather, Frank Jewett
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The Mentor: Two Early German Painters, Dürer and Holbein, Vol. 1, Num. 48, Serial No. 48
Mather, Frank Jewett
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528; Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
It meant a great deal to us, therefore, to receive a letter from
a teacher concerning the work that she was doing with The Mentor.
She had under her charge a class in High School, the pupils varying
in age from 14 to 18 years. The teacher has been using The Mentor
regularly. She distributes the pictures and the pupils read Monday’s
Daily Reading on Monday, and so following, day by day throughout the
week. On Friday afternoon she gives an hour to The Mentor. The article
in The Mentor is read aloud to the class and also the Saturday Daily
Reading. The teacher then reviews the subject with the pupils and asks
them questions. In this way, she tells us, her class thoroughly absorbs
each weekly subject in turn. Since receiving this letter we have made
inquiry, and we find that a number of teachers are doing the same
thing. We call the attention of teachers generally to this. It is a
plan worth trying.
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So much for the reading matter and the profit to be obtained for
children therefrom. We have said nothing about the pictures, and surely
it is not necessary to lay stress on the appeal made to children by
beautiful pictures. And it is not merely a dull, crude interest that
it arouses. It is in many cases an intelligent taste, that readily
responds to cultivation. A writer in one of our daily papers called
attention recently to an impressive scene that may be observed every
Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Museum. It is a gathering of
school children, who are assembled with open eyes and ears and eager
and hungry minds to see and hear and know the things of beauty and
of curious interest in the museum. These pupils are invited by the
Metropolitan Museum itself, and under the sponsorship of The School Art
League of New York.
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When this was started the Museum people, it is said, doubted whether
it would work. They were afraid perhaps that the school children would
feel that they were being “done good to” and wouldn’t come. As a matter
of fact, however, those who came first told the others that the visit
was simply wonderful, and more and more came, until now you may see 600
children at the Metropolitan on Saturday morning, hanging on the lips
of the people who are telling them about the art of the pictures and
the stories that go with them. It is a most inspiring sight for those
who are interested in education.
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