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I'm starting to enjoy reading Angela Brazil books not for the story itself but to see what sort of educational tactics she's recommending this time. In the current one I'm reading ("A Popular Schoolgirl") the school has just instituted a 'club' system where the forms get to name themselves and elect a representative. An individual girl's marks are averaged with the whole of her form and there's supposed to be a prize at the end of the year so that even the youngest group has a chance to win. The idea is to get people to chide their classmates for not studying. I would have thought that it might also get people to help each other study and do better, but that hasn't even been mentioned so far - apparently teasing is considered good for people.
In one of the other books (can't recall the title at the moment - maybe "Patriotic"?) the girls also had gardens and a little house that they spent time keeping up, and small groups of four girls had to cook a meal and 'host' their teacher and headmistress. The intent was to teach them how to do all the sorts of things that they might need to know in real life... at that time.
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Ahaha, next page, the girl who can't spell (Fil) says that the main character (Ingred) should help her write her paper because it's taking her so long and if they don't do well it will be the MC's fault for not helping. "I wish I could go to a school where there isn't any homework, and that somebody would invent a typewriter that would just spell the words ready made when you press a button." "There's a fortune waiting for the man who does!" agreed Ingred. "'The Royal-Road-to-Learning Typewriter: spells of itself.' It would sell by the million, I should think."
And yet people get worse and worse at spelling. And no wonder Fil looks for 'phenomenon' in the 'F' section of the dictionary. Her name is Filomena and I've never seen that spelled with an 'F'.
In other news, I'm trying to carry a timer around with me, today, so as to remind myself when a half hour goes by and wake up and move on to something else. Thus far it's a limited success, but I'll keep trying.
In one of the other books (can't recall the title at the moment - maybe "Patriotic"?) the girls also had gardens and a little house that they spent time keeping up, and small groups of four girls had to cook a meal and 'host' their teacher and headmistress. The intent was to teach them how to do all the sorts of things that they might need to know in real life... at that time.
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Ahaha, next page, the girl who can't spell (Fil) says that the main character (Ingred) should help her write her paper because it's taking her so long and if they don't do well it will be the MC's fault for not helping. "I wish I could go to a school where there isn't any homework, and that somebody would invent a typewriter that would just spell the words ready made when you press a button." "There's a fortune waiting for the man who does!" agreed Ingred. "'The Royal-Road-to-Learning Typewriter: spells of itself.' It would sell by the million, I should think."
And yet people get worse and worse at spelling. And no wonder Fil looks for 'phenomenon' in the 'F' section of the dictionary. Her name is Filomena and I've never seen that spelled with an 'F'.
In other news, I'm trying to carry a timer around with me, today, so as to remind myself when a half hour goes by and wake up and move on to something else. Thus far it's a limited success, but I'll keep trying.
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