Excerpt from The Teaching of Thrift: A Manual of Plans and Teaching Outlines Arranged by Grades Under the provisions Of a law placed upon the Ohio statute books some time ago, instruction is to be given in thrift in all grades in our public school system, both elementary and high, to the extent Of at least thirty minutes each week. As an aid to the individual teacher, upon whose efforts the success of this thrift teaching depends, we have undertaken in this manual to present a number of suggestions and lesson outlines which it is hoped may prove serviceable. It is trite to comment upon America's wastefulness as contrasted with the frugality of the European countries, but it is really a serious question how many more generations we can continue this prodigality. Thrift is a habit; thrift is also an attitude Of mind and an ideal. Practice and precept may combine to advantage in instructional method in the subject. Thrift is Often defined briefly as saving, but it is broader than sav ing. Thrift is saving by using wisely and saving to use wisely. Thrift is not parsimony, not miserliness. Thrift is not an end but a means to an end; it connotes the ability to dispense with an immediate pleasure for the sake Of future benefits. Thrift should be interpreted broadly as the conservation of time, material and money, and it is so regarded in this outlined course. Practice Of thrift is not associated with any particular money - saving agency or institution. Thrift and war savings were linked in the popular mind so long that there is a vague, confused idea in many minds that savings ended with the war and that to drag in thrift now is effrontery. The appeal to save on patriotic grounds has left in many a resentment at continued propaganda for sale Of government securities, because of a feeling that a crisis no longer exists. This merely demonstrates that the foundations have not been laid deep enough. A great deal of our war thrift and saving' was a forced growth, a hothouse product; we must plant the seedling that will produce the oak, permanent and abiding, not the ephemeral and transitory blossom. 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.