Education Exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR- BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1916, No. 1- EDUCATION EXHIBITS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.. 1915 By W. CARSON RYAN Jr. EDITOR. BUREAU OFEDUCATION 7 WASHINGTON GOVERN/4M PRINTING OFFICE 1916 ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS FP BLICATION MAT BE FRoCV REG FROM TII I: MP PERI NTENDENT OF DOCP ME VTR GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WARRINGTON, D. C. AT 25 CENTS PER COPY MAR 14)918 L In t3 tai 3 .AC0 9'16 i -II CONTENTS. Letter 01 transmittal Page. Int rnductory note 5 1. United States 0 overnment .7 Bureau of Education . II Children:I' Bureau 11 I'ublic Health Service 21 Bureau of Indian Affair+ ..2 21 II. State exhibit 21 California ' 25 Illinois . 25 Indiana 32 . lows e .34 Maasachtmet is 33 Missouri 36 New York . se Oregon ' Al Pennsyhania 43 Utah 44 Virginia . 47 WLsconsin 61 Philippine . 33 III. City exhibits 69 New York city at Clary, Ind 61 Iv. Foreign nat inns .. 63 Argentina . 64 China 75 Cuba 18 Japan ht r l'ruguay 78 V.. Exhibits of organizations and institution.. IV American Library, Associat ion 81 .% merle:in Medical Association 81 A mericun Mouth IT ysiene Association 86 American Social hygiene Association 83 Carnegie InstItin ion of Washington a. -. 86 Educational work of the churches 91 Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fundt 92 Fine, applied, and manual arts education... 95 Montcasori elemonst rat ion school 96 N. W. Harris Public School Extension 98 National child labor committee 99 Rockefeller Foundation International II ealth ContmLudon 102 Smith Collece 104 St. Louis Educational Museum 104 Standard Commercial School 106. 107 3 ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. Palace of Education and Social Economy, Panama- Pacific I nternutional Expocit ion 6 Floor plan of the Palace ofEducal Ion acid Social Economy . M Interior view Palace of Education 10 Bureau-of Educationchart, showing educational progress since 1477 0 ilt Chart illustrating kindergarten work of the National Kindergarten Association and the Burma of Education 12 Chart Illustrating work of the home education division of the Bureau of Education and the Nut tonal Congress of Mothers 14 Relative she of universities as shown in the Government education exhibit s 15 One of a series of charts emphasizing the money value of education 18 Map of AlaIska superimposed upon the United States 20 Comparative growth of libnolee In the various States 22 Children's health oonference in the exhibit of the Children's Bureau 23 Front of California motion-picture booth 25 Interior motion- picture booth, Cantomia exhibit 27 One side of the California motion-picture booth, showing types of building. in photographs and models . 29 Model of the Fresno open-air school 30 The other side of the California motion-picture booth, showing Chico, Santa Barbara, and other normal schools 31 A corner of the Illinois exhibit.. 33 Part of the Illinois exhibit, Mowing model under glum of the buildings of the University of Illinois 33 State administration of vocational education 36 Coniltlons of State approval 38 Th New York State exhibit, showing the electric-flashing relief map and the model of the State oration building 41 A nearer view of the New York State education building 42 The Oregon education exhibit 43.1 Device used by Pennsylvania Department of Ileallh to show the amount of physical defect in an average class In school 45 A popular plan for Pennsylvania rural sehooh 46 General view of the Utah State exhibit 48 A corner of the Utah exhibitshowingan effective display of school products ice Playgroundfacilitiesof Salt Lake City, as shown In the Utah exhibit 50 The Wisconsin booth 52 Extension work in Wisconsin 53 A typical faction of the Philippine exhibit, showing products in indastrial training c 57 Philippine public-echool system 59 Functional dIstribu tfon of teaching force, Philippine public school -system., 60 A work-study-and-play publicacehool system for adults .... ...... 63 Charts illustrating the Gary plan, shown In the (iary exhibit 65 One of the entrances to the Argentine exhibit 70 Various phases of secondary education, as shown In the Argentine exhibit 72 A typical screen from the Argentine education exhibit 73 A section of the Argentine ex hitch. 74 Arts and crafts work by orphans of the Z ikawel Catholic Mlettlon, Shanghai 76 l'art of the Chinese educational exhibit, showing work of seeondary schools 77 The Table Rua College booth... 77 The Uruguay exhibit In the Palace of Education 80 Entrance of the American Library Ansociation space iii "Getting books to all the people' s 83 Children's corner in the American Library Association exhibit $3 Publicity for the library 8.5 State educational requirements preliminary to medical education 87 An attractive exhibit, free from sensational features, emphasizing the educational aspects of social hygiene ' 88 The life process % 89 Two of the charts in ti .. social hygiene exhibit t5 The health challenge of the open -air school exhibit s,. 93 Open-air school exhibit of the Elisabeth McCormick Memorial Funcl, 94 Model of an open-air school built on the l' unit" plan 98 A nearer view of a portion of the open-air schools' exhibit 06 A corner he art exhibit In the Palace of Education 97 Glass Inc he In which the Montessori demonstration class was held tell. Interior ohe Montessori room 99 General view of the exhibit of the N. W. Rants Public School Extension of the Field Museum of Natural liktory, Chicago . le0 Two of the cases of exhibits furnished by the Ranh extension to the Chicago public, schools..... _ . 101 A significant chart from the childlabor exhibit, I The value of oont int tat Ion schools asset forth in the exljiblt of the National Child Labor Committee.. 11 The Smith College exhibit , 1 Geographical distribution of Smith College studen 106 St. Louis Educational Museum - 406 The Standard Commercial School of the Panama-radii/. Expoeition in eassitm 10? 4 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAC. DEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIOR, 1)1.:REAU OE EDUCATION Washington, October 7, Sin: Were it possible 1911i. to print for distributionamong those w04 are directly interested ineducation a complete education_ exhibits of the account of all t Panama-Pacific InternationalExposition, a distinct service might therebybe rendered to the tion. cause of educa- But this bureau hasno funds with which to have compiled, nor are funds such a report available for printing it ifit were compiled. I have, however, causedtwo brief reports to hionade most interesting features of some of the of these exhibits-iibrief general statement of the nature,purpose, and most striking .features exhibits, by W. ('arson of the several Ryan, editor in thisbureau, and amore de- tailed report of theexhibits in agricultural schools, by Harold W. education and rural Foght, the hureau!sspecialist in rural school practice. Those whoread these two reports idea of the meaning of will have a fairlygood these exhibits.1 recommend that published as bulletins of both be .the Bureau of Education,and I am- trans- mitting herewith the firstof these reports forthat purpose. Respectfully submitted. P. 1'. CLAXTON, 4 The SECRETARYOF TIIE INTERIOR. 5 C.. .. -T EDUCATION EXILIBITg, PANAMA-Aciyie $160SITIO21. ' , .4 . EDUCATIONEXHIBITS AT THE PANAMA- PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. INT11,0}-}(1CTORYNOTE. The.purpbse of this bulletin isto present, for the benefit of school OcialS:104...others interestedin education, a brief description the educatjeit exhibits of at the Panama-Pacific InternationalExposi- tion, hekEin.lian Francisco during'19.15.Exhibits described therein are almad.:Ontirelylimited to those thatare educational in the nar- rower seiist .of:. the wordhavingto do with schoolsor methods, processes,:ank,iystemseof.education.No attempt could be madeto describe ti4.-'0.4...ition itselfas an educational institution, however. inviting such'' might be..Suffice it to say that have atten no one could exposition without bringingsomething educa, tional away it, and certainly no schoolMtn or woman could have visited the fair withoutgaining new ideas of theprogress of civiliiation and a correspondingstimulus for the work of education. Most of the exhibits describedin this bhilletiliwere in the Palace of Education and Social Economy,situated at the extreme end of the exhibit building western area of the exposition. Thespace as- signed to the different exhibitorsmay bet'seen from the floor plan of the Palace of. Education,reproduced on page t3.About half the exhibits in this buildingwere devoted to education. A few exhibits not relating wholly to educationhad ednOational aspects that have been discussed in part in thisbulletitl.Some of the States and for- eign cbuntries devotedspace in their pavilions to school exhibits. A unified display, ratherthan numerous exhibits,was the aim of the department of,educationof the exposition, end thiswas carried out consistently. The policyfofthe deiMrtment is thusset forth by its chief, Mr. Alvin E. Pope: Domestic exhibits were securedby Invitation, the policy of the being to request each exhibitor to department confine his exhibit to. one distinctsystem or process In which lie excelled; tosome definite lesson which he was capable of teachlnif the world; to present complete information on his particular'subject which would be of Interest and benefit,to the visitors to.an international sition. expo- These Invitations were restrictedin order toavoid the special exhibits were duplication, and so assembled as tn.portray the salientfeatures of/I modern American' etdention. ,We have outgrown the old-styleeducationaldie- play,consisting of comprehensive, duplicateexhibits, cotnposedchitty of EDUCATION FOB PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITTON. pupils' work ; therefo IY has horn alto nod endeavor of the Ilepartmentto.7 have each exhibitoreat with the fundamental principles of education,Illus- trutiug the means.tyi to illevelop a child into the highest type of citizenship. Foreign countries toil Insular posselikons have followed the general pulley of the dope? tweet Iregard to the arrungejnent I/1 exhibits.