. The Gary Public schools;. r, if the innovator for-mulates his purposes in definite terms and measures hisresults in the Hght of his professed aims, the conservativecannot permanently escape the same process. Gary, likeall other educational experiments, must be held account-able in this fashion. Subject however to such ac-countability, the breaking of the conventional schoolframework, the introduction of new subject matter orequipment, even administrative reorganization, at Gary aselsewhere, tend to favor a fresher, more vigorous interestand spirit. Defects will in the following pages be poin
. The Gary Public schools;. r, if the innovator for-mulates his purposes in definite terms and measures hisresults in the Hght of his professed aims, the conservativecannot permanently escape the same process. Gary, likeall other educational experiments, must be held account-able in this fashion. Subject however to such ac-countability, the breaking of the conventional schoolframework, the introduction of new subject matter orequipment, even administrative reorganization, at Gary aselsewhere, tend to favor a fresher, more vigorous interestand spirit. Defects will in the following pages be pointedout in the Gary schools—defects of organization, of ad-ministration, of instruction. But there is for the reasonsjust suggested something in the Gary schools over andabove the Gary plan. Problems abovmd, as in everyUving and developing situation. But the problemsare the problems of life, and, as such, are in the longrun perhaps more hopeful than the relatively smoothfunctioning of a stationary school system. Thus, not-. INTRODUCTION xix withstanding the defects and shortcomings which thisstudy will candidly point out, the experiment at Garyrightly observed and interpreted is both interesting andstimulating. INDUSTRIAL WORK INDUSTRIAL WORK I. SHOP WORK IN GARY SCHOOLS ALMOST from the establishment of the Gary/Jk school system some fomi of constructive work•*- -^ has been a feature of the regular school the Emerson and Froebel schools were built thistook the form of such manual training as could be car-ried on in one or two shops supplied with simple equip-ment, or such handwork as could be performed in theregular classrooms. The first of these manual trainingshops was installed in the Jefferson school in 1908. DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHOP WORK When the Emerson school was built in 1909 two shopswere eqiupped for manual training woodworking andplaced in charge of Hcensed manual training years later these shops were given up, and cabinetmaking, painting
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