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Were you ever a child / by Floyd Dell.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- House of Sarett (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 9-202 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- [First Edition.].
- Other Title:
- Were you ever a child?
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.
- Contents:
- The Child
- The School Building
- The Teacher
- The Book
- The Magic Theory of Education
- The Caste System of Education
- The Canonization of Book-Magic
- The Conquest of Culture in America
- Smith, Jones and Robinson
- Employer vs. Trade Unionist
- The Goose-Step
- The Gary Plan
- Learning to Work
- Learning to Play
- First and Last Things
- The Child as Artist
- The Artist as a Child
- The Drama of Education
- The Drama of Life
- Curiosity
- The Right to be Wrong
- Enterprise
- Democracy
- Responsibility
- Love
- Education in 1947 A.D.
- Notes:
- Half-title page has list of "Books of Essays" (6 titles) on verso.
- Brown cloth boards lettered in green on spine and front; front cover has author name lettered in brown on a green panel within single ruled border. Back cover has Borzoi symbol in green in the lower right hand corner.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of "The House of Sarett".
- OCLC:
- 1084228
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