What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt

sufficiently supplied. In the high schools the clear tendency is to introduce more of the industrial and co ...

DRAWING AND APPLIED ART The elementary schools are giving the usual proportion of time to drawing and applied art. ...

develop an understanding and appreciation of the principles of graphic art plus ability to use these principles thr ...

MANUAL TRAINING AND HOUSEHOLD ARTS In the grammar grades manual and household training receives an average prop ...

intelligible and appreciative use of the labors of others, a considerable understanding of these various matters ...

sufficient for all except those who attend technical and special schools. The city has therefore chosen joinery and ...

training actually look toward vocational guidance; the social purpose involved will vitalize the work. There ...

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE This subject finds no place upon the program. No elaborate argument should be required ...

bearings in the various fields of science. The term "superficial" is used advisedly. There is an introductor ...

HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE Having no elementary science in the grades, one naturally expects to find in the high school ...

sciences. It is a difficult task to make the science teaching vital and modern for the academic high ...

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE Teaching in matters pertaining to health is given but a meagre amount of time in the ...

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conscientiously and not slighted. The schools should arrange for practical applications of the preparatory knowledge i ...

PHYSICAL TRAINING The city gives slightly more than the usual amount of time to physical training in ...

physical play for wholesome development. Most of this they will get away from the school, but as urb ...

of adolescents as the basis of full and life-long physical vitality. High school students represent the b ...

MUSIC In the elementary schools Cleveland is giving considerably more than the average amount of time to mu ...

many progressive high schools. It cannot be urged that the subject is finished in the elementary schools. ...

FOREIGN LANGUAGES German has long been taught in the elementary schools. Until less than 10 years ago it ...