Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE CLUB The great value of professional as well as of general literature is becoming more and more generally recognized. Eminent physicians club together, and for a comparatively trifling expense get the benefit of all the best medical magazines. Progressive teachers who really desire to make their chosen calling a genuine profession may profit by the physicians' example. It is of no avail for teachers to say that they can get all the best magazines at the public library. Potential energy is not kinetic energy. Magazines in the library are hot magazines in the teachers' hands. Inertia is a force to be reckoned with. Consequently, every corps of teachers ought to have a local professional or semi-professional magazine club. The teachers should agree on the amount of money which they feel willing and able to contribute. At a meeting of the club early in the school year each teacher should indicate his preference with regard to the various magazines. As there issome danger at the present time that professionalism may encroach upon that broad humanity so essential to the truly successful pursuit of any large occupation, it is well to include in the list of magazines some of the most meritorious of those devoted to general literature. It is a curious fact that some purely professional magazines are almost as soporific as opiates. One stimulating sentence is worth volumes of " dry-as- dust" prosing. " Pulvis et umbra sumus " might well be taken as a motto by certain well- meaning editors unfortunately devoid of a sense of humor. Education has become the absorbing master- passion of American life. Even the passion for wealth pays reverent tribute to the passion for education. And this great fact of our throbbing American life is imaged in the journals and magazines... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.