The School Review Volume 28

The School Review Volume 28

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...the one the book contains. A vigorous statement for vocational cducotion.--A decidedly emphatic volume' defending vocational education and written by a vice-chairman of the Federal Board for Vocational Education has just left the press. The author tries very earnestly to show that the old regime of twenty years and more ago was a flat failure in the scheme of education in the United States. There is strong intimation that much of the old system is still in force. He shows how the great World War has helped bring us to our senses in the matter of educating boys and girls in a many-sided way rather than in a narrow way as previously. The plea for reorganization of elementary and secondary education could hardly be put more forcibly than is here given. To the casual reader, however, there seems to be some overemphasis in places; but this only makes one think more carefully. The lay mind has to have something to prick it severely before it will halt long enough to take action. To give some idea of the attack made upon the traditional teaching of a few years ago, we quote the following: "The greatest advantage of standardization i.e., making all school work alike, however, from the point of view of cheapness, is that, through its aid, fifty or sixty children can be schooled by a single teacher. By dividing this preposterous number into squads, she can hear one batch of children recite from the prescribed book the preappointed lesson in arithmetic, while a second batch is preparing its cut and dried lesson in geography, and a third is doing 'busy-work, ' that polite school phrase for killing time. All this, however, is not education at all. It is school drill of a very meager and unenlightened sort. Of course, it is...

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Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti