What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt

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The University of Chicago 1915 CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY Leonard P. Ayres, Director The Survey Committee of the Cle ...

sections will be published as separate monographs. In addition there will be a larger volume giving a ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword List of Tables Prefatory Statement The Point of View Reading and Lit ...

LIST OF TABLES TABLE 1. Time given to reading and literature 2. Sets of supplementary rea ...

PREFATORY STATEMENT For an understanding of some of the characteristics of this report it is necessary to men ...

praising or blaming course of study requirements. The situation was too unformed for either. In the matter of ...

THE POINT OF VIEW There is an endless, and perhaps worldwide, controversy as to what constitutes the "essential ...

complicated that youth cannot adequately enter into them and learn them without systematic teaching. At ...

those things. One gets his ideas from watching others and then learns to do by doing. There is no reaso ...

READING AND LITERATURE The amount of time given to reading in the elementary schools of Cleveland, and the average ...

the usual mastery of the mechanics of reading and the usual introductory acquaintance with simple works of lit ...

So far as one can see, Cleveland is attempting in the reading work little more than the traditional thing. The ...

day problems and conditions or with their historical background. Probably children should read many more ...

TABLE 2.—SETS OF SUPPLEMENTARY READING BOOKS PER BUILDING Grade Average number of sets 1 10.0 2 6.3 3 ...

within hearing already has the meaning fresh in mind from the previous reading. The normal child cannot work ...

Sohrab and Rustum 3 Midsummer Night's Dream 6 Ivanhoe 11 Second Year ...

that pupils will acquire slow, thorough habits or rapid, thorough habits according to the way they are ta ...

SPELLING Cleveland has set apart an average amount of program time for spelling. Possibly the study might more ...