TEACHI NO WITH DOLLS.
, .-Tho'/ekperimciit'; of' using .dolls -for educational Npurposes has been made, witlr success .in •; some of ;: tho 'Vschools, of; America, and it has been '. 1 : suggested -that for. : primary work.-'this: kind of - pictorial geography: would rbe of infinite value ,both,-_ in the -children and in 'teaching them tho.manners,-customs and cos-, tumes of foreign lands.-Tho dolls are dressed in the national costume of the,country they represent, . and each: one; conveys 'to-, tho. child's mind ;tho chief: characteristics of that A.s,.tho,geographic .{lolls have tho complexion .and. racial, features,;of tho country'they represent, th'o. young,'.impil:;becomes familiar: with. these characteristics .ivliilo ho learns those of the country itself; arid by studying the costume, its ethical'aiid sartorial meaning, ho takes in moro through the doll medium than his young mind could possibly gather "if tho same amount of attention "were devoted to dry books and- inaps. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 10
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143TEACHI NO WITH DOLLS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 10
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