Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2020

WHAT ARE THEY LEARNING?

Just a couple weeks ago, I took my kids to the children's museum in Tuscaloosa. They have several interesting exhibits, but there was one that day that my daughter insisted we see. It was just a small classroom that looked like it had been plucked out of the 1930s. Of course, she was to be the teacher and I had to sit on a bench for toddlers, acting like an eager pupil. While I listened to her tell me about the “ABQs” and bears, I noticed some old school books that were on display. I managed to grab one, without getting scolded by the teacher, and started to thumb threw it. It was the revised edition of  McGuffy's Third Eclectic Reader,  which was   published in the 1920s. It was filled with different stories and lessons, but a certain poem, entitled  Remember,  caught my attention. Indeed, I was somewhat taken aback over what it stated: Remember, Child, remember, That God is in the sky; That He looks down on all we do. With an ever-wakeful eye. Remember, oh re