The new country school; a survey of development . own environment. The daily experience of the country boy brings him intointimate contact with the ideas that are fundamental in science,literature, and art. He works in a nature-study laboratorythat the city school could not buy. His daily tasks requirethe practical applications of elementary arithmetic, manualtraining, and elementary science. The country school hasdecided to make use of its own advantages, to live its own life,and thus to prepare its boys and girls for an efficient and happylife in the open country. In the experimental country
The new country school; a survey of development . own environment. The daily experience of the country boy brings him intointimate contact with the ideas that are fundamental in science,literature, and art. He works in a nature-study laboratorythat the city school could not buy. His daily tasks requirethe practical applications of elementary arithmetic, manualtraining, and elementary science. The country school hasdecided to make use of its own advantages, to live its own life,and thus to prepare its boys and girls for an efficient and happylife in the open country. In the experimental country school on the campus of theWinthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina,the school day usually begins in the garden. Arithmetic is studied in connection with the measurements of the plots, theplanting of the seed, the weighing and estimating of the crop,the study of the soil, the building of the fences. After theyoungest children have laid out their garden plots and plantedtheir seed, they must label the beds and make notes in their. LEARNING DOMESTIC SCIENCE AT ROCK HILL. garden books of the time of planting and other facts connectedwith the garden. Thus arises the necessity for reading andwriting. The receipts in the school kitchen, and the directions for thework of the day, written on the blackboard, serve as reading
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