Bingham News | 1922-11-25 | Page 6 | Civics without Textbooks

Cfvlw Without Textbooks. Our larger cities have lately Instituted Insti-tuted a departure In the tachlng of civics In elementary schools. Textbooks Text-books are discarded and the outcome of several months' test Is most encouraging. en-couraging. New York has Instructed the children In 21 subjects, from the food of the city and the dispensation of public charities to the part of the cltiiwn In government and thetnnnnge-ment thetnnnnge-ment of the schools. First-hand demonstrations dem-onstrations have beon given of the work of the Are department, and the "project method" sets the children to cleaning up and beautifying the school grounds. The benGts have already extended ex-tended to entire communities. Scientific Scien-tific American.