What the Schools Teach and Might Teach - John Franklin Bobbitt

    Fire    Protection

    Roads   and Road    Transportation

    Newspapers  and Magazines

    National    Defense

    Conservation    of  Natural Resources

    Liquor  Problems

    Parks   and Playgrounds

    Housing Conditions

    Mining

    Health, Sanitation, etc.

    Pensions

    Unemployment

    Child   Labor

    Women   in  Industry

    Cost    of  Living

    Pure    Food    Control

    Savings Banks

    Water   Supply  of  Cities

    Prisons

    Recreations and Amusements

    Co-operative    Buying  and Selling

    Insurance

    Hospitals

After drawing up such lists of topics for study, they should be assigned to
grammar grades and high school according to the degree of maturity necessary
for their comprehension. Naturally as much as possible should be covered in the
grammar grades. Such as cannot be covered there should be covered as early as
practicable in the high school, since so large a number of students drop out, and
all need the work. Of course, this would involve a radical revision of the high
school courses in history. It is not here recommended that any such changes be
attempted abruptly. There are too many other conditions that require
readjustment at the same time. It must all be a gradual growth.

Naturally, students must have some familiarity with the general time relations of
history and the general chronological movements of affairs before they can
understand the more or less specialized treatment of individual topics.
Preliminary studies are therefore both necessary and desirable in the
intermediate and grammar grades for the purpose of giving the general