its connection with carrying on educational work is being made by Professor Charles Hughes Johnston of the University of Illinois, together with data already written by him, and that which he is about to write, we believe a more thorough insight into this important method of teaching may be had. No further description of the Library Method is herein given, as reports from other member companies do not prove sufficiently complete to warrant their being given in detail and no other data as to the practical use of the Library Method is at present available, with the exception of material written by such authorities as Professor Charles Johnston and others. Although our study has been conducted with the idea of showing how the mind, hand, eye and ear are being developed as a direct result of an education, the replies received from various companies appear to have laid emphasis on the development of the mind in connection with any work carried on by other organizations. We believe it is very difficult to make a true dividing line between the mind and the hand, eye and ear, as all four are sometimes so closely related that a distinction between them is impossible. Concluding now our discussion on the various methods that may be employed in carrying on a systematic course in education in corporation schools, a quotation from one of our noted educators will not be out of place and expresses very well the technique of teaching and its relation to methods in teaching: "The technique of teaching involves a knowledge of psychology, processes of reasoning, memory, interest and attention; a mastery of the proper motivation of work; a knowledge of the laws of learning which have been established in recent experimental investigations and a knowledge of the practices and methods which the experience of the most successful teachers has demonstrated to be most economical of time and effort." We all know that at present we are feeling our way along slowly and conservatively, but the possibilities ahead of us are already looming up so prominently that everyone feels certain that a problem has been entered upon that will be almost limitless in its scope. The contribution to society at large in producing a more efficient corporation employe is alone well worth the effort expended, even if no substantial results are obtained for the corporation school itself. BOOKS FOR COLLATERAL READING NAME AUTHOR .Herbert Spencer.. PUBLISHER .Brentanos .H. Holt & Company 1 Education 2 Psychology 3 The Details of Class Management in its Relation to the Family, the Outside Com munity, and the Subject.....Dora Williams.... .Chas. Scribner's Sons 4 The Teacher and the School..Chauncey P. Colegrove.. Chas. Scribner's Sons 5 The Meaning of Education... Nicholas Murray Butler. Chas. Scribner's Sons 6 Schools of Tomorrow........John Dewey.. ....E. P. Dutton & Co. 7 The Modern High School....Chas. Hughes Johnston.. Chas. Scribner's Sons 8 The Psychology of the Com mon Branches 9 Socializing Function of the High School Library 10 Cooperation in the Teaching of English .F. N. Freeman... Houghton Mifflin Co. Florence M. Hopkins... Chas. Scribner's Sons James Fleming Hosic... Chas. Scribner's Sons 11 How Shall We Study the Industries for the Purposes of Vocational Education? ...... Chas. R. Richards......Reprint from Voca 12 Vocational Guidance and the High School tional Education (1914) .Meyer Bloomfield.......Chas. Scribner's Sons QUESTIONNAIRE ON EDUCATIONAL METHODS In order to determine the weight of opinion on each of the answers, each Company replying has been assigned a number: KEY TO COMPANIES ANSWERING QUESTIONNAIRES 1......American Locomotive Company 12.. 13. 14. 15. .... ...... The Graton & Knight Manufacturing Co. Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Company No. 17...... The Warner & Swasey Company 18. 19.. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.. 26. 27. 28. The Bell Telephone Company of Pa. .Bing & Bing Construction The Atlantic Refining Company The Pennsylvania Railroad Company .Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company 29. 30.. 31. 32. 33. Standard Oil Company of California Burroughs Adding Machine Company SUBJECTS TAUGHT BY "LIBRARY" METHOD Vocational Educational Subjects (1) Structural Engineering (2) Mechanical Engineering (3) Electrical Engineering (4) Machine Design (5) Mechanical Drawing Manufacturing Processes (1) Machinery Processes (2) Chemical Processes (3) Miscellaneous Processes Efficiency and Management (1) Corporation Management (2) Efficiency Engineering Principles of Business (1) All principles and rules necessary for properly conducting any business Collateral Reading (1) Investigation and research with the aid of a library Selling, Demonstration and Salesmanship (1) (Subject self-explanatory) College Graduates' Apprenticeship Schools (1) Courses for College Graduates given by many organizations in which the principles of the business are taught SUBJECTS TAUGHT BY "INSPECTION TRIPS" METHOD Manufacturing Processes (1) Machinery Processes (2) Chemical Processes (3) Miscellaneous Processes Principles of Business (1) All principles and rules necessary for properly conducting any business Commercial School Subjects (1) Commercial Arithmetic (2) Commercial Law (3) English (4) Business Arithmetic. Apparatus and Equipment and Their Uses (1) Tools and Apparatus Selling, Demonstration and Salesmanship (1) (Subject self-explanatory) |