. Francis W. Parker School studies in education. life, regardlessof the fact that such conditions may have an immense influence onthe enhanced freedom which mankind as a mass is feeling. But inall of those symbols of a freer interchange of thought and com-modities between the races of the earth, in transportation and com-munication, in radio, electric power, boats, autos, railways, and airtravel, the normal child has a direct and spontaneous he is born in an age when science is blossoming asnever before, and important recent discoveries and inventions, re-gardless of t
. Francis W. Parker School studies in education. life, regardlessof the fact that such conditions may have an immense influence onthe enhanced freedom which mankind as a mass is feeling. But inall of those symbols of a freer interchange of thought and com-modities between the races of the earth, in transportation and com-munication, in radio, electric power, boats, autos, railways, and airtravel, the normal child has a direct and spontaneous he is born in an age when science is blossoming asnever before, and important recent discoveries and inventions, re-gardless of their significance to adult life, symbolize to the child avast freeing of the human spirit from many traditional child of to-day senses the meaning of radio and air travel farbetter than his elders, and just to the extent that the school shopwill provide conditions for forms of shop work that will expressthe new spirit, to just that extent will its output be of a genuinelycreative quality. CREATIVE EFFORT IN THE MORNING EXERCISE. You see, said Dexter, theyve tethered the eighth grade boy was enchanted by the second grade sandtable story on exhibition in the lower hall that morning. He hap-pened to be explaining it to me, his teacher, but anyone would haveserved as audience. In fact, anyone near at hand would have hadto serve as audience to this enthusiast. The sand table was indeedworthy of the attention of an adult and even of an eighth the sand table one could see clearly foothills and a hills were made of boxes filled with sprouted grass, and themountain was made of bare rocks piled high. The hills were cov-ered with paper trees on wooden bases. Among the trees we sawclay men standing, and a woman milking a cow. The animals—cows, calves, goats, and sheep—were tethered, as Dexter hadpointed out, to the trees. In one spot there was a hole covered 145 146 CREATIVE EFFORT
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