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Title: The Training School Quarterly October, November, December 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: East Carolina Teachers Training School
Subjects: ECU History Education
Publisher: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company
Contributing Library: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation
Digitizing Sponsor: Joyner Library, East Carolina University

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mall, as an outdoor performance needsvery many more people than the one indoors. There is no reason why the teachers of the upper grammar grades andhigh schools of both country and town should not make frequent use ofthis form of the pageant. Once fully aroused to the undertaking, theteachers will find talent capable of entering into it. While there maybe lacking a certain finish and perfection, the spontaneity of the effortand the enthusiasm of the performers will make up fully for defects inother respects. In his introduction to Miss Esther Willard Bates book, Pageant andPageantry, Mr. William Orr says: In its nature, methods and aimsthe pageant is much to be preferred to the plays, fairs and exhibitionsoften given. The instruction in history, science, language, art andliterature is direct and vital. Pupils live in the scenes they are render-ing or witnessing. Imagination is quickened. The process is construc-tive, not analytical, because the appeal is to all the faculties. Such a o
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--n Use of Pageants in Schools. 133 strong interest is certain to have a profound influence on tlie readingof the pupils, and often dramatic, literary or artistic ability is discov-ered. The effect of the production of a pageant on the school organismis somewhat akin to the results seen in the larger community of townor city in that a fine spirit of helpfulness is engendered. Both teacherand pupil work for a common aim. The pageant may be regarded asone more instance of the way in which the new education is using theplay instinct. By reason of the constructive quality of such entertain-ments, their appeal to the hero worship and the historic sense so strongduring adolescence, and their genuine artistic quality, they must be re-garded as most important devices put in the hands of the teacher today. An increasing number of pageants is published every year whichmay be adapted to almost any school in almost any locality. Theseshould serve more as suggestions, for, as Miss Bates points out

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