Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Minimum Course of Study, 1922: Reports of Committees on Minimum Essentials in Elementary Education
On January 4, 1918, the superintendents of schools of nine cities of Southern California - Dr. Albert Shiels of Los Angeles; Dr. L. M. Rhodes of Pasadena; Mr. Horace M. Rebok of Santa Monica; Mr. W. L. Stephens of Long Beach; Mr. J. A. Cranston of Santa Ana; Mr. G. Vernon Bennett of Pomona; Mr. C. H. Covell of Redlands; Mr. A. N. Wheelock of Riverside; and Mr. Roy B. Stover of San Bernardino - met to consider ways and means of improving the schools for the welfare of which they were responsible.
The war was on and the lesson of the importance of saving everything which could be converted to human uses, and giving up everything which was in any way superfluous and wasteful, was being brought home as it never had been brought home before. People everywhere were saving money, clothing, food, fuel, manpower, so that the government might have them for use in defeating the enemy.
As we canvassed the question: What can the schools do to assist our nation's undertaking? it seemed to us that, in addition to all the immediate service which they could render, they might apply the same principles of conservation which Mr. Hoover was urging upon us to the mental rationing of our children.
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