There is joy in the Weaver household when a son is born, and the book follows him, known as “Dodd”, from the cradle through a string of teachers good and bad. Smith shows how mechanical schooling fails a restless, intelligent boy and how much a sympathetic teacher can do, arguing that schools exist for the child and not the other way round.
A popular nineteenth-century pedagogical novel that still speaks to parents and teachers. Download the free EPUB.