Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... his classes of graduate students in the University of Chicago, numbering several hundred in the aggregate, most of whom were high-school teachers, elementary-and high-school principals and supervisors, superintendents, and normal-school and college instructors. This list of abilities was, therefore, a carefully winnowed and organized list which had resulted from several years of actual labors. It would have required the teachers in Los Angeles a long time to work out from the beginning so finished a list. While we refer to it as being relatively finished, as a matter of fact it must be remembered that it represented but the empirical judgments of several hundred professional men and women; it did not represent the fruits of any scientific studies in the field of education. It is a pioneer formulation which is yet upon the level of hypothesis. For the reason just given, there was no thought of imposing this list upon the Los Angeles situation as a thing prescribed. There was also the further reason that in many respects the city of Los Angeles is differently situated and has different problems from those of the Mississippi Valley from which most of the graduate workers had come who were concerned in formulating this original list. For the teachers of Los Angeles, therefore, the list was intended to be an illustration of the kind of thing they needed; to show the kind of details of which such a list should be made up; to save labor on their part by suggesting a large number of things which it was obvious they would themselves suggest. II. The second step was for the twelve hundred high-school teachers in Los Angeles to formulate a list of the human abilities and characteristics which in their judgment were advisable or desirable for the...