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Show 123 underestimate the value of childhood play and thus deny students op for self-education. portunities than Play, according outlet for excessive energy an It is tremendous a or form of a to Ryan, mere was far more recreation: power in the advancement of the educational trinity--physical, mental and moral development. It contributes strongly to the entire field of educational activity--education or training for vocation, education or training for citizenship, education or training for physical efficiency, education or for leisure occupation, and education or training for training 47 social communication. Mill's half-day plan in consist of play, centeredness is to national a Ogden's schools held that education ought to While Mill's commitment to child- study, and work. broadly based, his ideas audience of educators are on self-expression addressed especially interesting: Self-expression in wood, stone, iron, or bronze gives character; it may be acquired thru self-expression on canvas, thru the vocal organs, thru any form of the divine art, thru agriculture or any of the industrial arts, or thru the arts of pleasure. The real inspiring thrill comes thru the accomplishment of a task well done. The end is the completion of a creative task. The object copleted gets the child's admiration, and the task of doing the work trains his senses, his muscles, his judgment, his intellect, his will, and his sympathies. This is education and or it is education for usefulness. He learns how to work and to be useful.48 Other chapters detail the manifold child-centered and V in the on practical education public schools, like knew the child-centered 470rson Ryan, Review 8 II the various programs designed to implement strategies (see especially Chapters III and their correlation). But, Mormon educators counterparts in the church system, implications of phYSical education, art, Pl ay and the Rura 1 Schoo 1 ." Utah Educa ti ona 1 (December 1914):39. 48John 1. rills, "The Reorganized High Schco l ," Proceedings of the National Education Association 54 (1916):567-70. |
