DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
PROFESSOR DARROCH'S VIEWS. In the course of a recent address to the East. of Scotland Aesociation of Domestic Science Teachers, I'rofessor Darroch said we had still to determine the true place of technical education to education as a whole. For the purpose of improving the technical training of our girls there were four fundamental principles which should , guide the. organisation of this training. In the first place in the technical training of girls, in 'domestic'subjects it must be borne in mind that all sucli technical training must be preceded by and based upon a sound general education, and then further during the school period such technical training must be subordinated to-the education which aimed at the widening of the intellectual interests, the broadening of the sympathies, and the es-; tablishing- of'..good moral habits. Henco"" .it followed that all teaching of domestic subjects should be banished from the elementary school proper. All such technical training should begin at. or about 12 years of age, and should be carried on in special schools br special classes. . The second general principle to keep in mind was that the home must be the real centre of all domestic teaching. It was.no doubt true that the demand' for technical training arose at the present because the ■ home was in many cases unable to supply the need. This was a lamentable fact, but unless by means of tho training of the present we remedied in the future this defect .in the home all our teaching would be in vain. The third general- principle in .the organisation of this branch of education was to secure thai the teaching and the equipment of the school should have a direct' bearing upon- (;he future home circumstances of the pupil; If this principle had been kept in mind : the equipment in our schools, would in some cases be of a. much more simple character and much more practical, than at present . The fourth general condition was the need for better .trained;and.better educated teachers. •
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 3
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335DOMESTIC SCIENCE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 3
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