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The Industrial-Arts Boondoggle

Some few weeks ago, a young lion of Teachers College, Columbia University, backtracked a trifle. He came out against studies in sand-pouring. The “extremists” in the Progressive Education movement, he declared, had brought discredit upon the wonderful accomplishments of Progressivism by certain flighty projects, among them the sand-pouring studies. But the great bulk of the work of the Progressive movement, he insisted, was sound and true. In particular, he commended the spreading of “industrial arts” courses to nearly every public school; this was true Progress.

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The Industrial-Arts Boondoggle

Some few weeks ago, a young lion of Teachers College, Columbia University, backtracked a trifle. He came out against studies in sand-pouring. The “extremists” in the Progressive Education movement, he declared, had brought discredit upon the wonderful accomplishments of Progressivism by certain flighty projects, among them the sand-pouring studies. But the great bulk of the work of the Progressive movement, he insisted, was sound and true. In particular, he commended the spreading of “industrial arts” courses to nearly every public school; this was true Progress.