Education, Vol. 19

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Excerpt from Education, Vol. 19: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature of Education, September, 1898-June, 1899The establishment of ungraded rooms as recommended is aecom panied with some difficulty. Wherever such rooms have been opened in connection with large buildings, the trouble has always been to do away in the minds of the children with the idea that they are punishment schools, that only the idle, the vicious, the irregular in attendance are sent there. If this can be avoided, then these extra schoolrooms, these ungraded rooms, may be made very useful. For instance, a boy who is naturally deficient in arithmetic and needs more than usual attention and instruction could be sent there to make that branch up, while he takes work in other branches with his regular class. There are many chil dren in every city who can only come to school part of the day. Such a room would suit their wants exactly but it must not be considered a disgrace to be sent there. There must be no Botany Bay idea connected with it. There is room for a large improve ment in city schools in making provisions for those children whose aid is absolutely necessary in earning a support for the family. An attendance of an hour or two a day should be encouraged if that is all their circumstances will admit of.Whether it is wise for a school system in a great city to under take the care of vicious and refractory pupils in the parental school is a very serious question. That such schools are needed, there is no doubt, but the be8t form of government and the best method of instruction in such schools, - in fact, the whole administration of them, has not yet been determined. They seem to be a necessary adjunct to a compulsory law. The whole provision is worthy of very careful study on the part of those who are interested in city systems. At any rate, such schools should be entirely separated from other buildings, and treated in accordance with their peou liar needs. They I1ave but little in common with other schools.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.