Excerpt from The Girl From Vermont: The Story of a Vacation School Teacher The success of the playground movement in Amer ica surprises even the warm-hearted, hopeful friends of children who started it. Sentiment has been re enforced by utilitarianism until now the whole na tion is beginning to find out that it pays to take care of the children. Juvenile courts are good, but playgrounds are better. The one is remedial, the other preventive. A reformed criminal is a credit to a community, but an unfallen citizen is a crown of rejoicing. Direct the energy of the child into proper channels, and the worst truant of the school becomes the explorer, the thief a successful mer chant, the forward girl a loving mother, and the boy banging on your front door the leader of an orchestra. The playground movement is going to reform our schools. Playground work, on account of its adaptability, always holds the child. The school room does not - witness the many unintellectual boys who leave school to go to work. The schoolroom ought to be made fascinating enough to retain the boys and girls till they are forced to leave it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.