Abstract:By this subject I mean making the high school meet the needs of society and of the community, making the subjects of a highschool course such as will open a direct approach to life. I do not mean by t...By this subject I mean making the high school meet the needs of society and of the community, making the subjects of a highschool course such as will open a direct approach to life. I do not mean by the term that the high schools should be cocoons and bee cells, from which will emerge the butterflies and drones of society. Schools have arisen because of the needs of society. This is true, not only of public schools, but also of our commercial colleges, so called, special schools, and technical and classical colleges. Latin grammar school, which prepared for college in an age when Latin was the language in which many nations recorded their legal, scientific, theological, and literary contributions, passed out of existence because laws and treatises are no longer written in Latin; the academy, which was a finishing school for boys and which offered a wider range of subjects than the Latin grammar school, either merged into free public high schools or became distinguished as schools preparatory for colleges. In 1870 there were only 16o free high schools in this country; ten years ago there were 8,000; today there are more than 14,000. Does not this indicate clearly that the public high school is an institution arising out of the increasing needs of society ? The high school is supported by the taxes of the whole people; it educates the children of the whole people; it must therefore provide for an adequate and proper education of the children of the whole people, of those who enter the industrial pursuits as well as of those who enter the so-called learned professions. To arouse and develop the worthy potentialities of each pupil until they became actualities is one of the problems of the high school that has only recently received its share of attention from educators. elementary school has been more or less successful in making the three R's more practical and in adding some sub692Read More
Publication Year: 1916
Publication Date: 1916-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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