. Review of reviews and world's work . lephone or automobile inthe environment of the chil-dren of a former genera-tion. What we have to dois to pick out the experiences and activitiesthat are really essential and that can be soorganized, guided, and combined with oneanother in an articulated, well-controlledprogram that they w^ill have full educativeeffect. Merely to provide an extended rangeof experiences is not necessarily educative. Itwas not a smattering acquaintance with theindustrial processes of the home and theneighorhood that made the older generationthrifty, industrious, and versati
. Review of reviews and world's work . lephone or automobile inthe environment of the chil-dren of a former genera-tion. What we have to dois to pick out the experiences and activitiesthat are really essential and that can be soorganized, guided, and combined with oneanother in an articulated, well-controlledprogram that they w^ill have full educativeeffect. Merely to provide an extended rangeof experiences is not necessarily educative. Itwas not a smattering acquaintance with theindustrial processes of the home and theneighorhood that made the older generationthrifty, industrious, and versatile in dealingwith material things; it was daily contactunder considerable pressure of necessity. Thefourth-grade girls (nine- and ten-year olds)who play with the sand in the molding-roomat Gary get very little out of the experience,even by way of acquaintance with the proc-esses of a foundry. We must of necessitypick and choose among ail the possible ex-periences and activities of children those thatwill be of fullest educative A SEWING ROOMCMost of the pupils in the elementary schools at Gary take more than therequired hours of sewing. Even with high-school girls, with whom it is op-tional, sewing is more popular than cooking as a study) THE GARY SYSTEM EXAMINED 617 Community Direction And Is it not possible that we can organ-ize all these activities and experiences—whichmust now come under conscious control andhence be somewhat artificial and restricted—to better advantage by cooperation of manyinstitutions and agencies rather than by com-bination in one? 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 buildin
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