Manual Training in Elementary Schools for Boys

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. COOKERY CLASSES. The introduction of cookery as a branch of instruction in the public schools is based upon reasons precisely similar to those which may be urged in behalf of sewing. These have been already presented in a general way, but inasmuch as the cookery has not been so fully discussed and is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. COOKERY CLASSES. The introduction of cookery as a branch of instruction in the public schools is based upon reasons precisely similar to those which may be urged in behalf of sewing. These have been already presented in a general way, but inasmuch as the cookery has not been so fully discussed and is still regarded as an experiment, it seems proper that the grounds upon which it rests should be more explicitly stated. I. While much may by said in behalf of the intrinsic advantages of cookery as an element in the schooling of girls, it seems to me to belong to the larger problem as to what should be the scope and purpose of a scheme of education intended for the masses of the people. If the view which has obtained among the most eminent thinkers on education for nearly three hundred years be accepted, viz.: that it must have reference to life in its broadest relations, it would be easy to show why an art which is so intimately connected with social well-being should find a place in the school. Political philosophers have demon-, strated the important bearing which a sufficient supply of wholesome food has upon the physical, moral and economic conditions of a community; yet it is a well known fact that ignorance and wastefulness in the preparation of food prevail extensively among our people. The wide-spread interest in domestic as well as public hygiene which has been growing up of late years has borne good fruit in many directions; but nowhere has it proved more beneficial than in calling attention to the importance of cookery as one of the most important economies of right living. Indeed, so fully has this conviction taken hold of the minds of intelligent people, that no careful mother now considers her daughter's education completed without a course in one of the sp...