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The emphasis laid by American educationists today on the importance of relating institutions, whether university, college, or school, as closely as possible to the actual daily life of the people, may be seen in the rapid increase (to which attention is directed in Education Bulletin, 1929, No. 30) in the number of schools adopting the form of organisation known as the ‘general shop’ for providing in the school curriculum instruction in a number of different manual activities for pupils of twelve to fifteen years of age. The bulletin points out that modern life has become so complex and production so highly specialised that the consumer has, apart from some such school instruction, little opportunity to learn much about trade operations, materials, or manufacturing processes. The ‘general shop’ training is not for actual skill in the trades represented, but rather for an understanding and appreciation of values in the final product, and incidentally for the acquisition of a certain amount of unspecialised ‘handyman's’ dexterity.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 126, 298 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126298a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/126298a0