Excerpt from Progress a Course of Study in History Arranged for the Grades of the Sioux City Public Schools
The course of study in History as outlined for the Sioux City Graded Schools has for its basis a three fold purpose.
1. To lead the child into the habit of problem analysis and solution. History may be said to be a record of the analysis and solution of the various problems that have confronted the human race and that constitute all that we denominate as Progress in civilization. Consequently its theme is the industrial and social development of humanity.
To re-live and re-solve the primitive problems of the race is easily within the understanding, interest and power of analysis of the primary child. The primitive simplicity of these problems makes them of peculiar interest to the child of this age.
If History is correctly taught the child's power of analysis and of problem solution, as well as his interest in human progress, will keep pace with the growing complexity of the historical problem.
The ability to think, to analyze and to solve problems should always be at the forefront in the teacher's motive. History is essentially a why study.
The child's motive will be found in his natural interest in the simple problems of primitive life. This interest will be sustained if the child's investigations arc accompanied by the motor expression of their solutions. History is filled with motor opportunities for the child.
2. To lead the child into a knowledge and appreciation of his historical inheritance. This knowledge should become the basis of the child's social consciousness and social responsibilities. The inheritance which he discovers he has received through the centuries of toil and struggle and sacrifice of his ancestors is one that must be jealously guarded, added to and in turn be transmitted by him to his children. The legacy of die past must become the enlarged legacy of the future.
This appreciation of our historical inheritance does not imply a study of the details of general history. It docs mean a general understanding of the epochs of industrial, social and educational development. It has to do with the milestones of progress. What, when, where and how people have lived and progressed. What they inherited and what they have given to the generations that followed them is the general theme.
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