Evening star., 1932-09-04
PUBLIC LIBRARY
EDUcATIoN-A CONTINUING

EDUcATIoN-A CONTINUING
PROCESS.
TN connection. with the reopening of
schools and colleges, which is ac-
companied usually by the family
4 hubbub occasioned by this Fall
event, the Public Library calls at
tention to the following lists OF books:
THE CHILD.
The Problems of Childhood. BY Angelo
Patri. 1929 IKIP277p.
A panorama of childhood, drawn
from the experiences of an authority,
VINO gives sound advice to parents re-
garding the child's physical nature, the
child mind, the child and his teacher,
the relation of the home to the school.
II Parents Only Knew: A mes
sage from teachers to parents, tell
ing what the modern school is doing
for the child and how the home can
help. BY Elizabeth Cleveland. 1929.
IKRS C59i
Suggestions on some Of the ways in
which the home can cooperate with
the schools in building up health, char
acter and home habits, in vocational
and recreational guidance and in train
ing for citizenship.
Creative Expression: The develop
ment of children in art. music,
literature and dramatics. Edited by
Gertrude Hartman and Ann Shu-
maker. 1882. IPP95.
Sponsored by the Progressive Educa-
ton Association, this book is an alb
sorbing narrative Of what the children
are accomplishing through the various
mediums of expression.
THE STUDENT.
The Junior College. BY w. c. Eells.
1881. IX83. .Ee5.
A comprehensive view OF the junior
college field, Stressing its development.
organization and administration and
its place in American education.
Life in College. By Christian Gauss.
1880. IX83.G237.
Dean Gauss of Princeton University
discusses all those practical questions
concerning college life which parents
and students themselves SO often ask.
He offers advice as to the types OF
young men who should or should not
60 to college, analyZes reasons for class
room failures, takes up the problems OF
revolt, leadership and romance, and
discusses the problems of parents in
relation to their undergraduate sons"
Which College? BY Rita Hale. 1881.
IX83H, ,153w.
A handbook Of colleges and universi-
ties, including the advantages and dis
advantages of going to college, admS-
sion requirements and sufficient 1nfor-
nation about individual institutions to
enable parents and students to make
preliminary choice.
THE ADULT.
The Meaning of Liberal Education.
BY E. D. Martin. 1926. 1K.M364m.
The director of the Peoples Institute
contends that education is spiritual
revaluation of human life. Its task Is
to reorient the individual, to enable him
to take richer and more significant
view Of his experiences, to place him
above and not within the system OF his
beliefs and ideals"
The Education of the Whole Man. By
LIP. Jacks. 1881. IK.J14.
The author pleads for the education
of beautiful people people whose bodies
have been educated to correspond with
a liberal education of the mind-an
education that will train the whole
man, mind and body together, to crea-
tive activity"
Education Through Recreation. BY
l.. P. Jacks. 1882. K.Jl4e.
"A master in the art of living draws
no sharp distinction between his work
and his play, his labor and his leisure,
his mind and his body, his education
and his recreation" Celebrating this
statement, DR.. Jacks has given for
mula for purposeful existence.
Roads to knowledge. Edited by w. A.
Nelson. 1892. n.N31.
Twelve eminent authorities survey
the fields of human knowledge and
show you how to continue your educa-
tion at home along the lines Of your
own interests"
Educational Experiments in Industry.
BY Nathaniel PETER. 1892. IKT.P34.
A study of the educational opportuni-
ties offered to their employees by some
of the larger American industrial cor
porations-apprentice and trade schools.
QUITO of-hours courses and training on
the Job. Includes also a discussion of
the vocational school in the public edu-
cstional system.