Curriculum for pupils of twelve to fifteen years : (advanced division).

Date:
1931
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Curriculum for pupils of twelve to fifteen years : (advanced division). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pupils of fifteen is restricted. For instance, the higher professions are not open to such pupils, and the academic teaching which serves mainly as a training for these occu- pations is irrelevant to their needs. This consideration seems to indicate that for most of them a study of the ancient languages is unsuitable. ‘There is undoubtedly a connection between the school-leaving age and future occupational groupings. ‘This leads to a considera- tion of the social demands necessitated by the distribu- tion of occupations in the community. (4) Relation of School Work to Life in a Modern Community The dependence of the school on society is more fully recognised in recent curriculum construction than here- tofore. The requirements of society are (1) common, and (2) specific. Society requires of every member of the community certain minimum essentials, e.g. the ability to comprehend and use simple oral, written, and printed language, to handle small sums of money, to know the common British weights and measures, to handle simple tools and perform simple household duties. It is now further expected that the school will send its pupils into life with a certain degree of physical fitness, of skill in the manipulation of ordinary mechanical appliances, with a certain knowledge of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, a standard of conduct approved by the community, and an awakened religious sense. His education should not appear to the pupil to be irrelevant to, or divorced from, the actualities of life. The Primary School may be held responsible for the knowledge and skill essential for, and common to, the