Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, 1897-1898
The public school embraces every grade, from the primary to the high school. As to the grades below the high school, there has been, and still is, not a little criticism, because of the distracting variety of subjects that _have found their way into them from time to time. When, therefore, those who are interested in educational reform suggested an enrichment of the school programs, there was a fierce outcry against what appeared to be an attempt to burden still further those courses of elementary instruction which were already loaded almost to the breaking point. Those whose apprehension was thus aroused totally misconceived the nature of the proposed modification. Enrichment is not concerned wholly with putting in new subjects; it is quite as much interested in taking out the useless and vicious. Indeed, the very first step In the process of enrichment consists in removing the rubbish, which embraces not only the things that have been imported, but the things which through long custom have either been distorted out of their true proportions or have come to be taught in a wrong way. Reform, therefore, must begin with pruning after that there should be found room for the things that are necessary to a true education.
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