Speech By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Needed Experimentation In General Education
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OCR Page 1 of 18NEEDED IN GENERAL EDUCATION
Gogol in Dead Soul's remarks that "Madame Manilov had had a good
ducation. And a good education, as we all know, is received in
boarding-school; and in boarding-schools, as we all know, three princi-
pal subjects lay the foundation of all human virtues: the French
language, indispensable for the happiness of family life; the pianoforte,
to furnish moments of agreeable relaxation to husbands; and finally
domestic training, in particular, i.e., the knitting of purses and
other surprises. It is true that there are all sorts of improvements
and changes of method, especially in these latter days: everything
depends on the good sense and capacity of the lady-principals of these
establishments. In some boarding-schools, for instance, it is
to put the pianoforte first, then French, and then domestic training.
While in others domestic training, that is, the knitting of 'surprises,'
takes the foremost place, then comes French, and only then the piano-
forte. There are all sorts of variations.*
In a measure this passage reflects much of the reshuffling of
subject matter that has been going on during recent years under the
name of general education. And to a degree the validity of these new
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arrangements rests on more than the type of opinion expressed in
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the passage. In science courses, for example, geology sometimes comes
first followed by physics and chemistry, in others, phyaica is followed
*Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Washington 25, D. C.
Speech delivered at the University of Minnesota, March 21, 1949.
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