. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . public mind to habits of more or less criticalanalysis, and had then become the subject of it. People were asking whatits real values were. Nobody seemed exactly satisfied with education—either his own or that which the schools administered to his or his neighborschildren. The war itself appeared as a conflict of opinions flowing fromradical educational differences expressing themsel
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . public mind to habits of more or less criticalanalysis, and had then become the subject of it. People were asking whatits real values were. Nobody seemed exactly satisfied with education—either his own or that which the schools administered to his or his neighborschildren. The war itself appeared as a conflict of opinions flowing fromradical educational differences expressing themselves in hostile pressure, beginning to exert itself in this country in ways notdistinctly foreseen while it was a country of free land and limitless oppor-tunity, had set people wondering whether culture for the masses was worththe time the masses were invited to put into it. Should Latin and litera-ture give place to vocational training, was it more important to learn atrade than a philosophy, could the humanities safely be neglected for acourse in wiping joints and cutting and threading pipe? Should children betaught sex hygiene in school, should text books be free, should spelling be 74. AN ENTRANCE TO THE PALACE OF EDUCATION WHAT SHALL THE WORLD BE TAUGHT? 75 reformed, should cooking or morality be taught, should the Bible be ad-mitted, could it be excluded, should work be turned into play or had itsome disciplinary value in itself, should kindergarten methods be extendedinto the grade schools? All these problems and more receivedattention from some of the most eminent educators in the world, problemsor from others that reflected their views, in the largest gatheringof the sort ever held in the history of the organization, forming one of themost interesting arenas of the time. The convention and congress met at Oakland, from August 16 to 27inclusive, with most of the sessions in the Oakland Municipal and accommodations headquarters w
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