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Reform In The Primary School., J. M. Braithwaite, C. R. Mcrae, R. G. Staines
Reform In The Primary School., J. M. Braithwaite, C. R. Mcrae, R. G. Staines
Future of Education
The pamphlet suggests reforms to primary school education as every Australian state there had been successive revisions of the course of study, all expressing a shift of emphasis away from monotonous grind and repetition, and towards such occupations as art, handwork, music, and physical education. But the movement towards better things was slow. [p. 5, ed]
We have seen that, during primary school years, the child grows in four main ways-physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially. The function of the primary school is to ensure successful growth of all four kinds. It is a fair criticism of the average school that …