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any benefit to her at this time? None at all; she would be as help- 

 less as a babe, and it would be very difficult for her to face the 

 responsibilities she was called upon to assume. 



Mothers and fathers are crying aloud to the public schools to 

 do something that will arouse the boys and girls and make them, 

 feel and realize what life means to them. The call is insistent that 

 some way be provided for directing their energies in the right 

 channels. The child learns to do by doing. We have three educa- 

 tions — the education of the head, hand and heart. 



I have been speaking of the education of the hand. In the 

 practical work in the school the parents become coworkers with 



Mrs. Quick and her class in Domestic Science. 



the teacher. This seems education worth while. True, we have 

 to shake off the moss which has been clinging to our backs for ages 

 in order to catch the spirit of this new common-sense use of the 

 public schools. 



But when those boys and girls leave school, if they do not 

 possess a love for work and have a practical knowledge of the work 

 going on about them, it will not be the fault of the school using this 

 plan. This plan of education is based on the new conception of the 

 purpose of the public school. The old conception was that the 



