. Review of reviews and world's work . Suppose a community could be induced tobring all its educational agencies under onedirector and center the buildings and equip-ment needed for them in one place. School,library, museums, gardens, playgrounds, gym-nasium, theater, auditorium—all in closeproximity, about an open square; the head-quarters of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts andthe offices of various community groups allprovided for in a separate building for edu-cational administration; a varying control,sometimes direct and authoritative, some-times merely supervisory or advisory, in thehands of
. Review of reviews and world's work . Suppose a community could be induced tobring all its educational agencies under onedirector and center the buildings and equip-ment needed for them in one place. School,library, museums, gardens, playgrounds, gym-nasium, theater, auditorium—all in closeproximity, about an open square; the head-quarters of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts andthe offices of various community groups allprovided for in a separate building for edu-cational administration; a varying control,sometimes direct and authoritative, some-times merely supervisory or advisory, in thehands of the Community Educational Direc-tor ; a general recognition of the interde-pendence of educational and recreative ef-forts and agencies both for young and forold; and the principle of election under su-pervision established for every child; wouldnot such a scheme work out more effectivelythan the attempt to make the school allthings to all children? The two big educational agencies lackingin the picture are the church and the shop ;. THE GARY SCHOOLBOY STUDIES THE MECHANISMOF AUTOMOBILES but both cou^ld be either in it or religious education nor industrialeducation are properly a part of the Garyscheme. Both present complicated and dif-ficult problems, social as well as Gary is trying to do is to enrich andenlarge the general education of its schoolchildren. Can that be done most effectivelyby extending the school plant and the schoolday, or by organizing the school into a largerplan of education for the community as awhole ?
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