What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by John Franklin Bobbitt
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elementary school and in the high school, should be used to give the
necessary practice. The technical matters needed can be taught in occasional periods set aside for that specific purpose. The isolation of the composition work continues through the academic high schools and in considerable degree through the technical high schools also. In the high schools the expression work probably needs to be developed chiefly in the classes in science, history, industrial studies, commercial and industrial geography, physics, etc., where the students have an abundance of things to discuss. Probably four-fifths of all of the training in English expression in the high schools should be accomplished in connection with the oral and written work of the other subjects. MATHEMATICS To arithmetic, the Cleveland schools are devoting a somewhat larger proportion of time than the average of cities. TABLE 7.--TIME GIVEN TO ARITHMETIC =========================================================== | Hours per year | Per cent of grade time| Grade |----------------------------------------------- | Cleveland | 50 cities| Cleveland | 50 cities | ----------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 38 | 60 | 5.2 | 6.9 | |
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