NEED ENCOURAGEMENT of all forms of EDUCATION FOR VOCATIONS HOME EDUCATION DIVISION IN COOPERATION WITH NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MOTHERS 13,000,000 CHILDREN 20,000,000 BOYS AND GIRLS Y OF THEIR TIME IN SCHOOL YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN % OF THEIR TIME AT HOME GUIDANCE IN CONTINUING THEIR HOME AND SCHOOL EDUCATION AFTER SCHOOL FOR FULLEST AND BEST RESULTS FROM THE OF BOTH HOME EDUCATION DIVISION HOME EDUCATION DIVISION BUREAU OF EDUCATION COOPERATION WITH STATES. OFFERS DIRECTIONS FOR READING PARENTS TO STUDY CHILD AND HOME MAKING COURSES NOW 40000 ASSISTANTS PARENTS ESTABUSHING HEALTH AND HELPS I UTERARY BIBLES MSCEU ANEOUS READNG FOR BOYS Chart illustrating work of the Home Education Division of the Bureau of Education and the National Congress of Mothers. The community service includes agricultural demonstration, model kitchen and garden, community recreation grounds, community circulating library, centers of social activities. A “practical ideal” for a consolidated school district showed a 10-acre school farm with an indefinite additional amount of from 10 to 40 acres for a district of 12 square miles, a population of 600 people, a school population of 200, 6 teachers employed throughout the year; a school building fitted up for school and community center purposes; manual training and domestic science buildings for school and neighborhood uses; residence for the home of the teacher and for social center interests; play shed; barn for stock and for Relative size of universities as shown in the Government education exhibit. horses used in transporting pupils to school, as well as for the teams of farmers attending social, educational, or demonstration meetings at the school and on the farm; poultry house, runs, and yards; athletic field and playgrounds for boys and girls; gardens, demonstration plats, vegetable and field crops; nursery and orchard; and parks for neighborhood picnics and outdoor exercises. The device illustrating the elimination of pupils from school showed that for every 60 pupils entering school in 1897–98, Other charts in the exhibit illustrated problems of home education and the need for cooperation between home and school; the value of home gardens for city children under the direction and supervision of the school; the money value of education; the number and distribution of libraries in the United States; the kindergarten-—its growth, present extent, and needs; and the plan of proposed Federal aid for vocational education. Two charts presented facts on higher education. One that aroused special interest showed the development of higher education between 1875 and 1914 as illustrated by a large privately endowed university (Harvard) and a large State university (University of Minnesota). The comparison was as follows: Science, Literature, and Arts Arts and Music Arts and Chemistry Arts and Law and Collegiate DeModern Course Pre-Legal the Arts partment (4 Arts and Medicine Classical Course years pre Science and Medicine paratory) Scientific Course Arts and Dentistry 2. College 01 (Civil Engineering Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering and the Me 1. College on Architecture chanical Arts Science, Lit- Modern Course (Architectural Engineering erature, and Classical Course Agronomy the Arts (2 Scientific Course Farın Manyears) agement Ini m al Ilusbandry Horticul- ture Total Plant Pa 1.622 thology Coilege (Subject Ento molof) Courses ogy Agriculture Agricultural Education (General Iloma 2. College on Civil Engineering 3. Department on Teachers' Economics Mechanical Mechanical Engineering Agriculturo Training Arts(2years) Architecture (Technical ForestCollege of Forestry Forest ry Experi. ment Station 1. The Central Boys' Course Schoolof Agri culture School of Agri culture Schoolof Agri- 7 Experiment Stations 4. Law School 3. College oil (4 years) Medical Courses-School for Nurses Agriculturo (University 5. MedicalSchool School of Embalming-School of Public (2 years) Ilealth Mining Engineering Metallurgy 9. School off Analytical Chemistry; Arts and Chemistry Chemistry Applied Chemistry Courses School (Summer Sessions; Extension Teaching Elementary Of special importance for rural-school sanitation and hygiene were the charts prepared by the joint committee of the National Education Association Council of Education, and the American Medical Association. Comparison of city and country school children showed that in most respects city children were less defective than country children. The percentages were as follows: 1 For a detailed description of these exhibits, see Bulletin, 1916, No. 2, Agricultural and Rural Education at the l'inama-Pacific International Exposition. 11619°-16--2 WHAT FOUR YEARS IN SCHOOL PAID $ 0. WAGES OF TWO GROUPS OF BROOKLYN CITIZENS Those who left Those who left school at 14, school at 18: Yearly Salary Yearly Salary $200. When 14 years of age 250. 0. 350. 500. 475. 750. 20 575. 1000. 22 600. 1150. 24 688. 1550. 25 Total Salaryll years $5112.50 Total Salary 7 years $7337.50 . .. 00 Notice that at 25 years of age the better educated boys are receiving *900 per year more salary and have already, in seven years, received $2250 more than the boys who left school at 14 years have received for eleven years' work. IT PAYS TO CONTINUE YOUR STUDIES One of a series of charts emphasizing the money value of education. |