new ones.
The visitor to the Gary school finds everywhere little groups of busy
children, absorbedly interested, working on the different needs of the
school, under kindly and intelligent teacher-workmen. He finds that
there is enough real work in the school plant to keep occupied for his
hour or more a day every child who is interested in manual work—and most
children are—or who desires to become familiar with a trade. Such work
is highly educational, and it is not drudgery. It is not specialized,
nor is it segregated from the academic studies. The industrial work for
both boys and girls is an integral part of the school life in which
every one who cares for a rounded education must participate in some
form or other.
[Illustration:
THE PRINTING-SHOP AT THE EMERSON SCHOOL
]
There is not a department which does not contribute in some way to the
school community life. The caretakers of the grounds are under the
supervision of the botany and zoölogy (nature-study) departments. The
children work with them in taking charge of and caring for the gardens,
lawns, trees, and shrubs. The botany classes care also for the school
conservatory and for the smaller experimental conservatory in the botany
laboratory. The zoölogy classes have charge of the school zoo as well as
the collection of pets in the zoölogy room. Even the drawing classes
contribute, the mechanical-drawing pupils in preparing plans for the
industrial work and construction, the art classes in decorating the
friezes of their room or in designing details for the building.
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