Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson. Millions of publications—not to mention spy documents ...

THE schoolmaster in the country is just now very much in want of a text-book to guide him in giving that kind of instruction which is variously termed “nature knowledge” or “rural economy”; such ...

THIS manual is, the preface informs us, “designed primarily to meet the requirements of the Education Department in the Class Subject of Domestic Economy, as laid down in the Code for 1897.” It will ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. After other communication and correction have been unconvincing, parents may sometimes choose to use an object lesson to teach what repeated words have failed to convey ...

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