HOME AND EDUCATION

...It is therefore important to understand that it is not the purpose to give the pupil an exhaustive knowledge of any of these subjects, but rather to give him a clue to the significance of these matters to him and to his community, and to arouse in him a desire to know more about his environment...

...When my jelly would not jell I was heartbroken, but did not know the reason why...

...We have seen how "The Reason Why" changed the drudgery of just cooking, sewing, and tending babies to a life full of interest and understanding...

...It is not so important that the pupil knows how the President is elected as that he shall understand the duties of the health officer in his community...

...Rhetorical theory will thus be made to serve as the handmaid of expression, not the occasion of it...

...We saw just how the wily manufacturer tried to fix the things so that even if we could read all that was on them we would not really understand what was meant...

...When my newly papered room did not satisfy me I was worried, but did not know the reason why...

...A week or two from home in touch with the educational center, is a most refreshing change and offers am, opportunity for growth that women should make a genuine effort to attain...

...Science has yet to lower the temperature of the kitchen...

...While it is not to be inferred that the supreme value inherent in the world's literary masterpieces will be overlooked, in both composition and literature there will doubtless be a shift of emphasis toward those subjects and activities which are of the greatest value in active life—for example, oral expression—and toward modern books and periodicals...

...THE TERM "social studies" is used in Bulletin 41 to include history, civics, and economics...

...C. L.) WHEN a woman makes up her mind that she wants to know a little more about the whys and wherefores of housekeeping, and says that she will forsake home, husband and children for a week or two in order to go to college, her neighbors immediately begin to wonder whether she is altogether sane...

...We have seen what this education in home making has meant to one Maryland farm woman...

...The old disciplinary theory of education, the idea that all young people must alike grind through studies for which they have no taste or aptitude or future use, finds no advocate in this bulletin...

...Women of maturity and experience in housekeeping, like well trained practical mechanics, are prepared to grasp readily the science of their work, the meaning of improved methods, and the reasons for better ways...

...Those of us who associate our school day knowledge of civics and history with learning the Constitution, and memorizing the facts of war, will realize that this is a new age and generation when we read the point of view of the chairman of the committee on social studies...

...The speaker should be animated by a sincere desire to stir up some interest, idea, or feeling in his hearers...

...It's the song ye sing, an' the smiles ye wear That's a makin' the sun shine everywhere— An' the world of gloom is a world of glee— Wid the bird in the bush, and the bud in the tree, An' the fruit on the stim o' the bough, says he, Whatever the weather may be, says he— Whatever the weather may be...

...My friends held up their hands in astonishment...

...The text should be the center of all instruction...

...The teacher used an aluminum griddle, and although they saw her pour the batter on the clean griddle and ate the beautifully browned cakes which she cooked, still they were not convinced until they had "clone it themselves...

...the record of our own institutions and activities than that of strangers...

...The great palaces and cathedrals and pyramids are often but the empty shells of a parasitic growth on the working group...

...We have been too busy trying to fit the children to the subject rather than the subject to the children...

...Oral work and pronunciation should, from the beginning, receive the most careful attention...

...Expression in speech demands distinct and natural articulation, correct pronunciation, the use of an agreeable and well-managed voice...

...The men had been learning about them in reference to the soil and the growing of wheat, but somehow we women had not been told anything about them in regard to our bread...

...All of the newest labor-saving devices were shown and many women got their first glimpse of these wonderful things...

...We believe that one week or more spent at her agricultural college even now in the study of domestic science or poultry, fruit and vegetable growing will be of great help and usefulness to her...

...The same thermometer put into the cream bucket saved lots of work and explained why the butter wouldn't come...

...Is there anything that is better worth while preparing for or of giving your support to...

...Home and Education Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE High School Education BULLETIN 41 recently published by the United States Bureau of Education is a live report, full of promise for the future of the high school...

...Good citizenship should be the aim of social study in the high school...

...Bulletin 41 states the point of view on important branches of the chairmen of the various committees that constitute the commission...

...It is recommended that pupils, with neither taste nor capacity for a foreign language, should drop it at the end of the first year...

...They had their musty, dusty cloth skirts and coats cleaned beautifully with the vacuum cleaner, and although several varieties of tireless cookers were shown the one which the teacher herself had made and used for several years interested the practical farmers' wives more...

...James Whitcomb Riley...

...THESE are but a few of the educational suggestions to be found in this eighty-page bulletin...

...The old chronicler who recorded the deeds of kings and warriors and neglected the labors of the common man, is dead...

...Science," says one woman, "has done a great deal for the fanner...

...We would have more women realize that though the teaching of domestic science may not so greatly improve on the old methods of cooking, sewing, or caring for their babies yet it is bound to help them meet their daily problems more intelligently and surely...

...to teach the pupil to read thoughtfully, and with appreciation, to form in the pupil a taste for good reading, and to teach the pupil where to find books worth while...

...Books for reading, likewise, will be selected because they are capable of producing a genuine reaction, not because they are illustrative of literary history...

...The aims of the first year should be phonetic training, knowledge of the fundamental principles of language, and interest in the foreign nation whose language is studied...

...they put dark shutters, dark shades and heavy curtains at each window, and then no wonder the rooms smell musty...

...As soon as I heard of it I began to scheme and plan to take advantage of it...

...It is probable that the high school teachers of social studies have the best opportunity ever offered to any social group to improve the citizenship of the land...

...THE STATEMENT relating to modern languages begins with the fundamental principle that the work must be arranged so that at every point it will be profitable for those taking it...

...Likewise the more recent theory that the high school exists for the sake of the higher institution, gives way to the principle that every day of school shall have full value for its own sake...

...We prepare and plan their feeding more carefully...

...No stress should be laid upon fine distinctions and technicalities until later in the course when they will be of use to those who are to specialize in the language...

...Trust her to make the most of it...

...In line with this emphasis the committee recommends that social studies in the high school shall include such topics as: Community health, housing and homes, public recreation, good roads, community education, poverty and the care of the poor, crime and reform, family income, savings banks and life insurance, human rights versus property rights, impulsive action of mobs, the selfish conservatism of tradition, and public utilities...

...How many of our girls are being fitted as they should be for motherhood and the burden of home duties...

...THE VIEWS of the chairman of the committee on ancient languages are no less up-to-date than those of the chairman on modern languages...

...The labels on manufactured goods were "just torn to pieces" for our benefit...

...Long as the foregoing list is, it is quite apparent that many more vital topics could be added...

...How many of them even have the chance...

...When my bread failed to rise I did not always know why...

...Why, I thought you knew how to cook as well as any one round here...

...We are supporting schools for training our boys in more profitable farming...

...It is to help him to think 'civically' and if possible to live 'civic-ally.' * * * "History, too, must answer the test of good citizenship...

...This sweeping claim is based upon the fact that the million and a third high school pupils is probably the largest group of persons in the world who can be directed to a serious and systematic effort, both through study and practice to acquire the social spirit...

...See that she has the chance...

...the history of our own country than that of foreign lands...

...While the administration and instruction throughout the school should contribute to the social welfare of the community, it is maintained that social studies have direct responsibility in this field...

...Of course, in a short time like this the work must be hurried and a woman must be quick with her pencil and notebook so as to get down every important thing...

...The following article well expresses the sympathetic and appreciative attitude women should hold toward the new education wherever it is within their reach...

...Well, how many are doing it...

...And it also suggests how our state universities and agricultural schools should regard the work of women as coequal and complementary to that of men.—B...

...THE CHAIRMAN of the committee on English states that the immediate aim of this most important branch of education is to give the pupil command of the art of expression in speech and writing...

...So many folks seem to be afraid of the sun...

...The elaborate descriptions of these old tombs are but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals compared to the record of the joy and sorrows, the hopes and disappointments of the masses, who are infinitely more important than any arrangement of wood and stone and iron...

...Whatever the weather may be, says he— Whatever the weather may be...

...If Latin is to maintain the high place which it has occupied in our scheme of education for so many generations, the teaching of it must be more vital...

...Some forms of bacteria are very harmful, but often fresh air and sunshine will keep them down...

...We had good suggestions given us to use in case we intended to build a house, among them the following: to make it face southwest instead of due south, then each room could get the sunshine at some time of the day...

...Facts, conditions, theories, that do not contribute rather directly to the appreciation of methods of human betterment, have no claim...

...Most of the work in a new language is best done in class under the direction of the teacher...

...Subjects which we used to think belonged only to the men's part of the work were discussed...

...We know more about what to do for a calf or colt in an emergency than we do about babies...

...In this spirit recent history is more important than that of ancient times...

...As a result of two years' preliminary work by a committee on the articulation of the high school and the college, the National Education Association, at its meeting last July, authorized the formation of a commission to investigate and report upon the reorganization of the various subjects pursued in the high school...

...So I went to college for a few days and now I know the reason why about lots of things...

...Grammar should be regarded as the handmaid of the text, to be used solely to make clearer the language it serves...

...the labors and plans of the multitude than the pleasures and dreams of the few...

...Several asked permission to cook griddle cakes without a griddle greaser...

...We have men studying better methods of taking care of them and of increasing their profits...

...We believe that it can help the farm woman make her home brighter, her surroundings more attractive, her children even happier and healthier...

...Samples of different things were taken into the laboratory and then we could understand why the preserves "mother made" were better than any we could buy, for the former were made of fruit and the latter of most anything but fruit...

...How about training our girls for better home building...

...The work of the first year should be made as profitable for those who will drop out as for those who will go on...

...We believe that science given the opportunity can lower the temperature of the kitchen...

...In content, scope, and method, our courses must be adapted to the ability and to the interests of the children...

...When she gets home the notes can be filled out at leisure and will prove to be a very handy reference book...

...Last spring I learned that the agricultural school in our state was preparing to give a short course in domestic science for the benefit of the women...

...Bacteria were described, and in a few minutes we realized that the good in them was to help us in our work...

...We learned that a thermometer, placed alongside of the rising dough, would tell us just when we had the right temperature to make the bacteria do their part of the work—and then no danger of the bread's not rising on account of temperature...

...Well, what if I did—perhaps I could learn how to do it more easily...

...Final report of the commission is not expected until 1015...

...Without taking issue for or against the so-called direct method of teaching Latin, the writer does not hesitate to affirm from his own experience that a five-minute class exercise in oral Latin in question and answer between teacher and pupils, will put life and interest into the dullest recitation...

...He says: "It is a pedagogical blunder—fatal to the interest of success of all except the relatively few who have the type of mind that takes pleasure in handling, naming, and putting together the dry bones of the skeleton of a language— to attempt to teach grammatical forms and principles weeks and months before there will be any real occasion to use them...

...They invite criticism and suggestion from those interested, in the hope of making the final report as thoroughly sound and complete as possible...

...We learned that bacteria would have to be reckoned with when the time came for preserving and canning...

...It will make them realize that an ideal home and home life is something worth while working out and devoting one's life and study to...

...Let their mothers train them, you say...

...The ground work of composition should consist of those projects for speaking and writing which young people can be made to feel are worth while...

...Under this test the old civics, almost exclusively a study of Government machinery, must give way to the new civics, a study of all manner of social efforts to improve mankind...

...It can be obtained by writing the United States Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. * * * The Reason Why By EVELYN HARRIS ("The Country Gentleman") (There is no more important educational work being done today than that of the short courses in domestic science offered by our state universities and agricultural colleges...

...It should not he assumed by any high school teacher of French and German that all the pupils of the class are to become masters of the language...