ON MENTAL AND PHYSICAL FACTORS INVOLVED IN EDUCATION. 191 



Psychological or other 

 Classification 



7. 



No.of < Ihildren who 



reach Standard II. 



Proficiency 



Undeveloped mental 



powers — 



a. Removal of cause {e.g., 



adenoids). 



b. Food, exercises, simple 



lessons. 



Abnormal eases — special 

 attention to manual work. 



Morally defective — bad 

 habits checked ; training 

 by lessons and example. 



Defect judged by S.M.O.— 



1. Word-blind — reading re- 

 placed by manual work. 



2. Number-blind — number 



omitted. 



No ; classes too large, staff 

 too small and not qualified 

 for such work. Epileptics 

 are isolated. 



No. 



Impossible, owing to large 

 classes (twenty-five to 



thirty). 



Practically none, but low- 

 grade cases placed in lowest 

 class. 



About 1 1 per 

 cent. 



About 

 cent. 



13 



per 



Eleven in twelve 

 years. Upper 

 children still 

 deficient in 

 some of the 

 three R's. 



Almost nil. 



About 2 per- 

 cent. 



About one-ninth 

 (11 per cent.) 



Time for Manual Work. Nature 

 and Organisation of 



Half-time with older children : 

 a little more with younger. 

 Older children : industrial 

 work. Younger children : 

 work preparatory to the older 

 occupations. 



Except woodwork, taught in 

 school. 



7 \ hr., upper classes ; 6 hr. 40 

 min., lower classes. Industrial 

 work for boys. Domestic 

 training for girls. Younger 

 children : kindergarten, rug- 

 making, &c. 



Y^es. 



7i hr. Boys : woodwork, metal- 

 work, netting, cardboard model- 

 ling. Girls : housewifery. 

 laundry, cookery, and needle- 

 work. 



Yes. 



12 hr. Tailoring, housewifery 

 (and cooking), hand and eye, 

 plain needlework. 



Y'es. 



6 hr. 40 min. Tailoring, house- 

 wifery, strip- work, needlework, 

 rug-making, raffia work, flower- 

 making, netting, kindergarten. 



Yes. (Record Form under 4. ) 



Class 1, 6 hr. 15 min. ; Class 2, 

 8 hr. 45 min. ; Class 3, 6 hr. 

 5 min. Boys : tailoring, gar- 

 dening, netting, cane - work, 

 wire - work, clay-modelling, 

 drawing, kindergarten. Girls : 

 needlework, macrame, kinder- 

 garten, clay-modelbng, paper- 

 flower-making, drawing, rug- 

 making, housewifery, cookery. 



Yes. (Record Form under Ques- 

 tion 4.) 



