. The public and its school; a statement of the means of finding what the intelligent public expects of children and how a school system may be managed to deliver the goods. a waste. Superinten-dency ought by this time to have formulated some of thelessons of experience into something approaching a science. THE SCIENCE OF SUPERVISION 42. EN or more years output of efficiencybooks and articles have affected the manage-ment of Brooklyn schools. A number of theprincipals and teachers are familiar with theworks of H. B. Gantt, Herbert Kaufman,Harrington Emerson, and others. Emersons summaryof effi
. The public and its school; a statement of the means of finding what the intelligent public expects of children and how a school system may be managed to deliver the goods. a waste. Superinten-dency ought by this time to have formulated some of thelessons of experience into something approaching a science. THE SCIENCE OF SUPERVISION 42. EN or more years output of efficiencybooks and articles have affected the manage-ment of Brooklyn schools. A number of theprincipals and teachers are familiar with theworks of H. B. Gantt, Herbert Kaufman,Harrington Emerson, and others. Emersons summaryof efficient management common to most kinds of or-ganization has been quoted to some extent in coursestaken by Brooklyn teachers. The supervision of a schoolor of a division is benefited by knowledge of the require-ments outlined by him. They are:Ideals — kept clear and —change of ideals to meet changing of cost. IDEALS AND REVISIONS 43. Even the business organizations now emphasizethe necessity of keeping alive in every member of the [22]. EVERY BUSINESS ORGANIZATION NEEDS EFFICIENCY CONFERENCES staff high ideals of efficiency. Provision for this feature inschool systems is universally demanded. In no service isstagnation and formalism more dangerous than in exist in Brooklyn very efficient agencies for pro-moting high ideals and for keeping them up to date. I do not know of any community in which teachers andprincipals in such large proportionate numbers make astudy of the purposes and methods of teaching as is thecase in Brooklyn. Adelphi College, St. Johns College,Polytechnic Institute, and the Brooklyn Institute ofArts and Sciences have maintained for several yearsschools of education largely attended by teachers in serv-ice. I learned of many teachers and principals who haveattended and will attend summer schools of three
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