The World's Work Volume 22 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... transform materials to suit their needs. Gradually they become familiar with the nature of materials used in every day life; textiles, wood, iron, tin, brass; the tools made from these; the processes evolved in their practical application; and the products resulting from all this interaction. The children vie with each other in doing the school room caretaking, performing little duties in getting ready for the day's work, and in straightening up afterward. To-morrow is proud when she is allowed to help set the tables upon which the luncheon cooked by the older girls is served. Later on at home she demonstrates her new accomplishment. More than anything To-morrow enjoys the walks out of doors in the park surrounding the school, and the nature study, which continues through the cold weather in ample conservatories. Then there are the games, interesting games, from which To-morrow learns more than poor little Yesterday had ever been able to extract from books. How the teacher of the old school would have scoffed at the new way She used to complain that the children who came from the kindergarten wished to play all the time. Of course they did; it was the child nature striving to express itself. But the old educators thought, "These children must work in our way, they must fit into the system." Now the child is taught through her own natural impulses, the system being a result of the child's development. Every teacher is a college graduate, the product of years of deep study of psychology and sociology. With but twelve to twenty children in her class she has time to consider the individual need with real insight and to make of each well balanced group a working unit. She has formulated with the other teachers a definite plan for accomplishing the wo...