Pinocchio in Africa. Translated from the Italian of Cherubini by Angelo Patri (Italian Edition)
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Child Training; Henry Ford Estate Collection
Angelo Patri
D. Appleton and Company, 1922
Child rearing
A Schoolmaster of the Great City (Classic Reprint)
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I remember sitting with the family and the neigh bours' families about the fireplace, while father, night after night, told us stories of the Knights of the Crusades or recounted the glories of the heroes of proud Italy.
How he could tell a story! His voice was strong, and soft, and soothing, and he had just sufficient power of exaggeration to increase the attractiveness of the tale. We could see the soldiers he told us about pass 'before us in all their struggles and sor rows and triumphs. Back and forth he marched them into Asia Minor, across Sicily, and into the castles of France, Germany and England. We lis tened eagerly and came back each night ready to be thrilled and inspired again by the spirit of the good and the great.
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Angelo Patri was an American educator and newspaper columnist.
Background
Angelo Patri was born on November 27, 1876 in Piaggine, Provincia di Salerno, Campania, Italy. He was the son of Nicola Petraglia and Carmela Conte. In 1881 the family immigrated to the United States. His childhood was spent in Little Italy in New York City, an environment similar to that of his native land. He was taught to read and write at home, and did not go to school until he was eleven. His father, a construction laborer who was barely literate, passed on to his son a rich oral tradition. He told him fables and stories with such moral impact that the telling of stories as a teaching strategy became the hallmark of Patri's work as teacher, principal, and syndicated newspaper columnist.
Patri learned English on the street. In time the family moved out of Little Italy, and he became conscious of his otherness. Afterward, he reflected, the change of environment made him "forget, indeed to undervalue, the worth of my people. " He was ashamed because his parents did not look or speak like Americans. Despite these negative evaluations Patri had a strong sense of self-worth. His mother hoped he would become a priest, but he wanted to become a doctor. This dream was put aside when his father suffered an accident and could not work.
Education
Angelo Patri graduated from the City College of New York in 1897. In 1905 he got a degree of Master of Arts.
Career
Angelo Patri became a teacher in 1898. After two difficult and depressing years of teaching in New York City public schools, Patri went to Columbia University for further study. Reading John Dewey's Ethical Principles altered his views on teaching. He exchanged the notion of discipline ("You made pupils do what you wanted; you must be the master") for the concept of conduct ("The sacredness of the child's individuality must be the moving passion of the teacher"). With an M. A. (1904) in hand, Patri experienced new pleasure and greater freedom in his teaching. After meeting some opposition to his ideas, he found a more congenial principal who encouraged him with these words: "Children grow because of their contact with you, the best that you know and feel. "
From 1908 to 1913, Patri was principal of Public School No. 4 in New York City. Establishing the school of his dreams was not easy. To replace an imposed discipline with a real discipline is a long, slow process. He tried to move his teachers away from the routine treatment of the basics and toward subjects that held emotional values and that promoted creative learning. The central idea behind Patri's work was that of service. How could he, the teachers, and the school best serve the children, the parents, and the community? Patri was instrumental in developing a closer understanding between teachers and parents and in gaining the participation of parents in school activities. "Socializing the school means humanizing the teacher, " he said. Patri seems to have been the first native of Italy to become a public school principal in the United States.
From 1913 until his retirement in 1944, he was principal of Paul Hoffman Junior High School in the Bronx, New York City. There he continued and extended his philosophy in liberal education. He took a special interest in gifted children. Patri's work extended beyond the teaching and administrative duties of his school. He presented his ideas to a wide audience through radio talks, books, and his syndicated column, "Our Children. " Although he and his wife had no children of their own, Patri wrote prolifically about children. Many of his columns were collected into books. Besides his publications on education and child rearing, he wrote several books for children.
Patri's autobiography, A Schoolmaster of the Great City (1917), is the account of a poor immigrant lad whose dream of service finds fulfillment in the public school establishment. The story is simple and direct, much like the tales his father told him as a child. The story of Patri's Americanization is essentially that the child is an important influence in the assimilation of the parents (indeed, Patri served as his father's teacher in helping him to gain citizenship). This work was reprinted several times and translated into five languages. Angelo Patri died in Danbury, Connecticut on September 13, 1965.
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Quotations:
"In one sense there is no death. The life of a soul on earth lasts beyond departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you. He/She lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him/her. "
"The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. "
"Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is. "
"This fathering is a man's second chance at living. "
Connections
In 1910, Angelo Patri married Dorothy Caterson, a teacher in the school. They had no children.