Excerpt from How Our Grandfathers Lived The place of sources in secondary schools is already assured, and teachers using them are ready to testify to their incalculable value in teaching history; but to put sources into the hands of grammar school children is, in the minds of many teachers, quite another matter. If, however, sources give vividness and reality to the study of history when pursued in the higher schools, why may not the same hold true for elementary schools, provided the selections are made carefully and are adapted to the age and understanding of the pupils? In my own experience I have found the use of such sources as Bradford's Journal, for instance, invaluable both for giving reality to the study of the early years of the Plymouth settlement and also for teaching children where to go to settle a disputed point. I have put the Journal in its antiquated form, as far as Spelling and construction are concerned, into the hands of eighth grade pupils with excellent result; it was gratifying to find that, when two text-books disagreed on some point, the pupils turned at once to Bradford for aid. Several of my stu dents who, in connection with their course at the Normal School, have taught in the grammar grades of the W orces ter schools, have brought me testimony as to the assistance they have found in the sources - particularly in connec tion with colonial history - which they have put into the pupil's hands. 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.