Educating, Chapter 3

Notes for Chapter 3 (see page images at the Internet Archive)

Title:  "How to Do Better"

This chapter gives a suggested plan of reform for the city schools.

p. 27 "for many children the fifth grade is the last year of schooling"

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p.28 "abolishing the grammar-school course and establishing a thorough, complete, and self-contained elementary course of from eight to nine years"

Some resemblance to the traditional French model, in which "elementary" and "secondary" schools were two different tracks, rather than different stages of education.  

"The secondary course should begin at the age of ten to permit of sound preparation for the university (...) a year or more would be saved"

The classical course in the public schools would thus last about seven years, from age 10 to 16.  

p. 32 "Foreign languages, if studied at all, should be begun before the age of ten."

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p. 37  "This school did cost more money for the year 1912-13"

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p. 38 "In the public schools of Mt. Lebanon, Penn."

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