Suny Cortland - Didascaleion Yearbook (Cortland, NY)

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KINDERGARTEN: Dr. Day's little folks listen intently at story hour Tl-HRD GRADE: boys and girls during an activity period SECOND GRADE: Reading class in session FOURTH GRADE: Science class demonstration FlRST GRADE: Young actors present Betsy Ross Makes a Flag FIFTH GRADE: Thespians in the making

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PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION The extreme versus the norinall As in all things our policy here at Cortland Normal School in regard to progressive education is to extract the best and apply its greatest potentialities. Gur training school follows a middle path, giving the child the formal background reguired in New York Statee under sit- uations most conducive to learning, the method advanced by our progressive educators. We proudly present a har- monious combination, the results of which are productive of the best in each- Rerhaps the most significant character- istic of the progressive education we follow is the unit activity--the corre- lation of all subjects, providing many dif- ferent angles of approach to any one unit. TRAINING SCHOOL GFFICERS Edlund, Sly, Gibson, Aldrich The child is the object of teachinge the child as an individual. We are teaching children, not subject matter, and each pupil progresses according to his abil- ities. Student leadership is vindicated -eproducing better citizens by training the thought process rather than employ- ing didactic methods. Gur children do rather than Watch- they act in preference to learning by listening. Boundless opportunity for logical self-direction is offered-the most successful modern methods of education are available. We are in- deed proud of our training school-ex emplifying eager pupils, earnest student teachers and cooperative effort on the part of our faculty. SIXTH GRADE Reading, Writing, Working iiii

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