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WINNETKA TALK September 10, 1927 TEACHERS RETURN FROM EDUCATIONAL MEETING F O R S A L E a vo ae facts and skills does not mean growth. Growth, evolution, depend, not on stan- dardization, but on variation. Every child has the right to vary from his fellows. Every child has the right An attractive 7 room Shingle, living room with heated a ore BI Se he sun parlor, dining room, kitchen and extra lavatory on Ist i ge 0 Rg Rant Eo floor; 4 bedrooms and bath on 2nd, ample closet room, 1 idle Ligon Wg iit Fo h and certain skills in calculation and car gatage. fot 39x177, beautifully landscaped and Wilts: new schools, in reacting from shrubbed, nice shade trees, owner leaving Village. Poss. Sa a Jet the mastery of kom. immediately. Price $18,500. themselves over largely to free expres- Both kinds of schooling are one sided. The less benighted of the traditional- ists will usually agree that it would be good to give children a chance for self- expression; but they say their school time table is already too crowded--it takes every minute of the day to teach the academic subjects. The less extreme of the progressives will grant that some training in the Agen ts tool subjects is desirable and that some information concerning Geography, His- tory and other content subjects is of WwW 1 value to the child. But rather than innetka 1 5 44 sacrifice freedom for self-expression, they do slipshod teaching of this subject matter. The way out of the dilemma lies, it seems to some of us, in a more efficient, The Webb School of Dancing (Established 1911) Announces d.... BALLROOM DANCING CLASS on Wednesday Evenings Opening October 12th, from 8:30-10:30 P. M. at The Winnetka Woman's Club One hour's instruction in this Season's New Dances One hour's Social Dancing Also A Children's Dancing Class Saturday mornings from 10:30-12: Opening October 12th The Children's Course includes: Training Steps, Deportment, Ballroom Dancing and special solo. Fees: (payable in advance) Ten Week's Course--$15.00 per person Ten Week's Course--S$15.00 per couple Private Lessons by Appointment Apply to FLORENCE WEBB Member of the Operatic Society of Great Britain 525 Chestnut Street Fellow of the Imperial Society 1 Judge of the World's Ballcoom Championship 1923-26 Phorie Winn. 2689 at "Dancing is an accomplishment necessary to complete education" scientific organization of subject matter and method in the teaching of tool sub- jects and facts, so that time will be cleared for free activities. This scientific organization of subject matter and method requires, first, a clear cut, specific statement of the exact units we expect each child to master--the de- gree of speed and comprehension in reading, the exact arithmetic processes and the degree of speed and accuracy in these processes, the spelling words, the language elements, the historical and geographical facts--in short the facts and skills which objective, scientific re- search shows to be of direct value to all normal people in the world today. It requires, next, an equally definite means of determining when a child has reached mastery of these goals and where he needs help in his attempt to achieve it--such means is found in com- plete diagnostic tests. And it requires materials of instruction so organized that a child may progress from step to step with the minimum of outside as- sistance--carefully planned, self-instruc- tive textbooks, written directly to the child and providing varying amounts of drill for children of varying capacity: a great deal for the child who needs much in order to attain mastery, less for the child who reaches mastery quick- ly. Such an organization of the curriculum and teaching materials on a scientific, efficient basis, makes it possible to give each individual child mastery of those facts and skills which he needs in order to function freely in society. But, what is of even more importance, it makes it possible to do this in much less time than is used by the traditional type of school--an hour and a half in the morn- ing and an hour and a quarter in the afternoon is ample for the knowledge and skill subjects, Half the morning and the rest of the afternoon are therefore freed from academic teaching respon- sibility--space hak been provided on our time tables for free work without sacri- ficing thorough work. IN In this freed time we may now pro- vide a wide range of activities--activities which have as their sole purposes the stimulation of creative work on the part of individuals and the socializing of these individuals. Both purposes are im- portant. We want to encourage each child to express his differing interests and ideas, to originate, to create. But we also want him to take other children into consideration, to make his original contribution valuable to the group. Haphazard free activity will not give us these results. The activities must be organized--organized with the help and co-operation of the children themselves, organized around their own interests and abilities, to be sure, but nevertheless rather definitely organized. Organization need not mean lack of freedom. The activities may include such things as dramatizations, where the children select freely the subject to dramatize, where they write the play, create the cos- tumes and scenery, and organize the production; they may include the writ- ing, illustrating, printing, financing, and selling of a school newspaper or maga- zine ; they may include the construction by the group of a play house, a model village, or any of a vast. variety of | SARC SAV | EB Sore, Aching, Perspiring Feet are | annoying to the o> i A a little | NYAL EAS'EM in your shoes and stockings or socks every morning and enjoy real foot comfort. Ease'em is a cooling, soothing, antiseptic foot powder. It helps to make walk- ing easy. 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