EDUCATION 



1952 



EDUCATION 



doors in 1913. It is a traveling museum which 

 sends cases of zoological, botanical and geolog- 

 ical material to the schools. Economic collec- 

 tions which are useful in the study of geography 

 and commerce for the illustration of production 

 and distribution form part of the material in cir- 

 culation. The cases present small animals, birds, 

 fishes, plants, minerals, etc., in lifelike imitation 

 of their natural surroundings. They are deliv- 

 ered at the schools by an automobile, remain for 

 two weeks and are then replaced by others. 



The Educational Museum of the Saint Louis 

 Public Schools is the only museum in the United 

 States which is a regular part of the school sys- 

 tem. It is a traveling museum. The material, 

 consisting of 2,000 individual and 8,000 duplicate 

 collections for circulation, is grouped and ar- 

 ranged in accordance with the course of study, 

 and is used in direct connection with the school 

 work. Each school has a delivery day once a 

 week. The principal orders the material that is 

 to be used in his school for the illustration of 

 classwork during one week, and two days later 

 the museum automobile truck delivers the mate- 

 rial and takes back what had been used during 

 the previous week. Each teacher has a cata- 

 logue. 



The groups of material are food products, 

 materials for clothing, other natural products, 

 industrial products ; the animal world ; plants, 

 and models and charts of plants, minerals, rocks 

 and ores ; articles and models illustrating the 

 life and occupations of the different peoples of 

 the world ; apparatus for the illustration of 

 physics and physical geography ; charts, photo- 

 graphs, maps and objects illustrating history ; 

 charts and objects illustrating physiology ; lit- 

 erary and musical records for the school phono- 

 graphs ; and photographs, stereoscopic views and 

 lanteYn slides to accompany the preceding groups. 

 During the year'1915 over 70,000 collections were 

 sent to the schools. 



A teachers' library of 10,000 volumes, consist- 

 ing of books on philosophy, psychology, educa- 

 tion, school management, text-books used in the 

 United States and other countries, reports and 

 courses of study from all parts of the world and 

 reference books on everything the museum con- 

 tains, furnishes books to the teachers by the 

 museum automobile. Nearly 4,200 books were 

 in circulation in 1915. 



A study exhibit, which gives the teachers of 

 the city the opportunity to make themselves 

 familiar with the different types of material for 

 circulation in the schools, is placed in two large 

 adjoining rooms of the museum building. In 

 glass cases there are exhibited in the order of 

 the catalogue one or two types of each of the 

 2,000 individual collections, the whole display 

 constituting an open catalogue. .Reference books, 



the titles of which are given at the head of each 

 group in the catalogue, are at the teachers' serv- 

 ice. All the students of the Harris Teachers 

 College Saint Louis employs only graduates of 

 this institution in its elementary schools receive 

 a thorough training in the use of the material. 

 In the winter and summer extension classes of 

 the college courses in the use of illustrative ma- 

 terial are also given. 



The United States National Museum is not in 

 a position to conduct any of the usual forms of 

 extension work, but has co6perated with the 

 schools in a very efficient and successful way by 

 distributing among schools and colleges valuable 

 material for the illustration of school work. 



Art Museums. The following art museums 

 in the United States have established a system 

 of cooperation with the schools of the cities in 

 which they are located: 



The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 



The Worcester, Mass., Art Museum. 



The Rhode Island School of Design, Provi- 

 dence. 



The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, L. I. 



The Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, N. Y. 



The Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N. Y. 



The Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine 

 Arts, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 



The City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Mo. 



The Western Gallery of Art, Kansas City. Al". 



The Toledo Museum of Art. 



J.W.W. 



Canadian Museums. Strictly speaking, there 

 are no educational museums in Canada. There 

 is a museum in connection with the Depart- 

 ment of Education in Toronto, which issues an 

 archaeological report, relating particularly to 

 archaeology in Ontario. In the same city is 

 the Royal Ontario Museum, partly operated 

 by the Ontario government and partly by the 

 University of Toronto, which covers everything 

 from fine arts to mining. 



In Ottawa, connected with various depart- 

 ments of the Federal government, are museums, 

 and there are a few small collections connected 

 with various historical societies throughout the 

 Dominion, especially in the Province of On- 

 tario. The largest collection of Canadian 

 prints, so far as known, is in the museum of 

 historical pictures relating to Canada, in the 

 Public Library in Toronto; this is known 

 the John Ross Robertson collection. G.H. 



National Education Association 



This name is applied to a society of teachers 

 and educators of the United States, organized 

 at Philadelphia, in 1857, as the National Teach- 

 ers' Association, and incorporated under its 

 present name in the District of Columbia in 

 1886. A number of similar but smaller associa- 



tions were founded early in the nineteenth 

 century. One of the best known, the American 

 Institute of Instruction, organized in 1830, cov- 

 ered New England; another was organized in 

 Ohio, and still another in Philadelphia. 

 1856 the presidents of twelve of the state 



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