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. 1922 Excerpt: ...from any possibilities of more than simple elementary school education, the high school has remained at heart undemocratic. The controlling ideals of its social life, its sports, its curricula, and its standards are essentially aristocratic. At 14 years of age substantially all American children are in school. At 18 ...
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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. 1922 Excerpt: ...from any possibilities of more than simple elementary school education, the high school has remained at heart undemocratic. The controlling ideals of its social life, its sports, its curricula, and its standards are essentially aristocratic. At 14 years of age substantially all American children are in school. At 18 fully three quarters of them, now young men and women, will have embarked on their life work. More than one half of all the boys and girls of any progressive town or city enter high school; but of these rarely more than one third remain to graduate. Public opinion is seriously adverse to the wage earning employment of young people under 16 years of age; and openings for such work are becoming fewer. But modern industry and commerce is capable of absorbing and annually does absorb hundreds of thousands of youths of both sexes over 16 years of age. What are then the outstanding defects of this institution for which the people have already done so much and on behalf of which they cherish such great expectations? Three of these defects lie close to the surface. These may finally prove to be essentially derivative or secondary in character; but for the present they indicate the most promising directions for effective reforms. First, the high school is servant rather than master in its own house. Second, it fails seriously in adaptability to the varying needs of its student body. Third, it is now trying to "vocationalize" itself, with serious detriment to the legitimate aims of both liberal and vocational education. The most visible affliction of our high schools is the absence of home rule--or perhaps it is a form of absentee landlordism. At any rate, high school faculties, from preference or necessity, are not masters in the domains of the...
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