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Florence Holbrook Quotes

1860–1932 United States

Florence Holbrook (May 30, 1860 – September 28, 1932) was an American educator, writer, and peace activist. She worked in the Chicago public schools for over fifty years, as a teacher and principal.

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The pupils should retell the stories, thus enriching their vocabulary and learning to express thought clearly, easily, consecutively, and confidently,– a power so much needed and so valuable to citizens of a republic.

Museums, theatres, and concert halls are all around us, but what use are they unless you can get the child into the way of having sympathy for the art and the artist, of seeing and hearing the thing itself and talking about it?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Florence Holbrook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.