| Show SCHOOLS NEED or by PROF PEW JAMES P F HOSIC columbia university the general teacher of bf elementary sell school ool education should be supplanted jay by the specialist there is no iio scientific basis for the present custom of assigning forty children to one guide etna and helper for a sein semester ester or a year in acci activities vi ties the practice evidences tradition not scientific 4 management its ats validity seems never to have been investigated although commonsense common sense is against it at home the child enjoys th the e companionship care aid ad direction of two parents and often additional relatives the V very ery fact that every person is individual means that each one of as as has different to contribute to the growing childs experience the tha child should not be deprived of these contacts iw in sch school bol the distinction between curricula and extra curricula should not be applied to the modern cleme elementary neary 0 I 1 1 1 11 oa i music dramatics cookery dancing school i publications iad and other po so called extra curricula activities are no longer to be regarded as fads and innovations vat ions the teachers will constantly join jobi forces in p guiding ing the activities of the pupil each teacher coil contributing as she can from field the children will do more than pursue arsue courses they will learn how to live |
