Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Open Air Crusaders: The Individuality of the Child Versus the System, Together With a Report of the Elizabeth McCormick Open Air Schools
The greatest possibilities lie with the children. Roundly, twenty millions Of them are in the schools Of the country. They are spending one hundred million hours a day through the school year under the direction Of this definitely constituted public function, in the environment and under the conditions prescribed by the law. SO far, the only efficiency tests applied to measure the success Of this great undertaking have been those which gauge the ability Of the children to pass from one grade to the next in the series leading to the college. We do not know whether the school experience has increased or diminished bodily vigor or whether the use Of school time has done the most vital possible service in preparation for what lies ahead.
The attention Of an increasing number Of people is focus ing on the large army Of children, somewhere between 53 and 70 per cent Of the total number the country over, who fall out Of school at or before the completion Of the grammar grades. Conspicuous in this group are those whose physical condi tion has stood in the way Of school progress and has rendered them incapable Of taking with profit the usual school regime.
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