What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt

into syllables, derivation, phonetic properties, oral and written spelling and meaning, are all to be made ...

composition, letter-writing, etc. Direct word-list study should have only a secondary and supplemental pl ...

HANDWRITING Cleveland gives a considerably larger proportion of time to handwriting than the average of the ...

LANGUAGE, COMPOSITION, GRAMMAR The schools devote about the usual amount of time to training for the correct ...

subject. In classes visited the thing attempted was being done in a relatively effective way. And when j ...

The composition or expression most to be recommended consists of reports on the supplementary reading in connectio ...

MATHEMATICS To arithmetic, the Cleveland schools are devoting a somewhat larger proportion of time than the a ...

the fundamental needs of the age upon which we are now entering is accurate quantitative thinking in the fie ...

general public." These statements indicate a recognition of the most important principle that should control in ...

strengthen the mind. The mathematics in this school should consist of business arithmetic and mensuration. We can ...

Form study should begin in the kindergarten, and it should develop through the grades and high school in ways ...

HISTORY The curriculum makers for elementary education do not seem to have placed a high valuation upon hi ...

subject. Of the 108 pages, it receives an aggregate of less than two. The perfunctory assignment of work ...

readings which will show how present conditions have grown up out of earlier ones. Looked at from a ...

Fire Protection Roads and Road Transportation Newspapers and Magazines National Defense Conserva ...

background. During these grades a great wealth of historical materials should be stored up. Pupils should acqui ...

CIVICS Civic training scarcely finds a place upon the elementary school program. The manual suggests t ...

Whether the deficiencies here pointed out are serious or not depends in large measure upon the character of the ot ...

GEOGRAPHY Geography in Cleveland is given the customary amount of time, though it is distributed over the gra ...

how much of this printed material they have remembered and how well. It has not consisted of stimulating ...