"Siss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one-fifth of their time to applied work. During the year the boys have, in addition to the shop-work, twenty lessons in preparing and cooking plain, substantial meals. To make this "siss" work palatable to the sterner sex much of it takes the form of instruction in camp life—cooking in tin cans and other handy home-made devices. In a community where boys have always been trained to regard home work as menial, but where the absence ...
— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing |
