CHAPTER XVII 



DRAWING. MUSIC PHYSICAL CULTURE. SEWING 

 DRAWING AND ART 1 



Art is added to drawing because drawing hardly covers 

 all the work that is at present given in our schools. The 

 oldtime drawing consisted mostly of copy- 

 ing from the flat and the drawing of geo- 

 Present metric figures, and had at its best the nar- 



row aim of training only the eye and the 

 hand. The chief aims of drawing as taught in the best 

 schools today are to lead the pupils to acquire first, the power 

 of accurate observation; second, keen perception; third, 

 sound reasoning; fourth, the development of a taste for the 

 beautiful in nature and an appreciation for the achievements 

 of man in art. To promote the first three aims object draw- 

 ing and color work are given ; while the study of the prin- 

 ciples underlying designing, the study of historic ornament, 

 and the observation of pictures are means to secure the 

 fourth. 



Art is the oldest language; it is the most natural; it is 

 universal. The oldest records of the human race are the 



works of the artists of their day. Art is a 

 Art as a - , ., . .... 



Language means of expression for the ignorant child 



and for the untutored savage; it is a com- 

 munication of thought for the most highly civilized races. 

 The works of the great masters of all ages and all nations, 



*This section on drawing and art is taken very literally from 

 the course of study for the Stockton city schools. 



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