MANUAL TRAINING AND HOUSEHOLD
ARTS
In the grammar grades manual and household training receives an average
proportion of the time. In the grades before the seventh, the subject receives
considerably less than the usual amount of time.
TABLE 11.—TIME GIVEN TO MANUAL TRAINING
======+=======================+========================
| Hours per year | Per cent of grade time
Grade +—————-+—————-+—————-+——————
| Cleveland | 50 cities | Cleveland | 50 cities
———+—————-+—————-+—————-+——————
1 | 32 | 42 | 4.3 | 4.8
2 | 32 | 47 | 3.5 | 5.1
3 | 32 | 40 | 3.5 | 4.5
4 | 32 | 45 | 3.5 | 4.6
5 | 38 | 50 | 4.3 | 5.2
6 | 38 | 57 | 4.3 | 5.8
7 | 63 | 72 | 7.1 | 7.1
8 | 63 | 74 | 7.1 | 7.4
———+—————-+—————-+—————-+——————
Total | 330 | 427 | 4.8 | 5.6
———+—————-+—————-+—————-+——————It is easy to see the social and educational justification of courses in sewing,
cooking, household sanitation, household decoration, etc., for the girls. They
assist in the training for complicated vocational activities performed in some
degree at least by most women. Where women are so situated that they do not
actually perform them, they need, for properly supervising others and for making