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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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al resources of yourcounty? Why dont your schools make afinancial survey? Naturally this practicalform of inquiry causes the boy to ask Dad.which causes Dad to think and inquire,which causes the whole community to in-vestigate. In Ohio, ^Visconsin, and Iowa,various rural schools have inaugurated thismovement. ha\e tabulated and published theresults, and have even established a /rr-jnanrnt exhibit of county rc-snurces in the schoolhouse. This scheme was founded,in many particulars, severalyears ago in an English in-stitution, Berley HouseSchool, where not only werepermanent exhibits of coal,iron, tin, and other Engli-«Iiresources maintained, butalso ores were buried in theschool campus amidst suchenvironments as would bemost likely to exist wherethe minerals were commonlyfound; the students pros-pected for the deposits, sankshafts, hired student laborfor mining, planned minia-ture railroads leading tocarefully planned factories,studied marine routes and THE COLXTRY SCHOOLS RE-BIRTH 73
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-PLAYING HOUSE ON A LARGER SCALE THAN USUAL. THE CHILDREN AT NEW PALTZ. N. Y.. HAVE THE FARM WITH ITS FENCES. AND PASTLKE LOTS. AND ALSO A FINE HOMEMADE BARN AS A COMPANION PIECE TO THE HOUSE markets, and thus learned geolog\-, industrialand commercial geography, transportation,banking, labor problems, manual training,and general commerce in a way that no bookcould ever teach. Here in America the plan has never beenfollowed out to this degree; but numeroussmall-town and rural schools have* inaugu-rated county investigations and establishedthe countj-resource exhibit room. In Lick-ing County, Ohio, and at Cascade and Kalis-pell, Montana, for instance, the school fairswith their exhibits and data charts havebeen a revelation to the community. INSTRLCTIO.V FOR ADL LTS In connection with these local .showsthere is often some exceedingly practical in-struction givrn for tho grrnvn-iips. Rijrhthere is probably the beginning, of the nextimp<^irtant movement in American education—ihf eff

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