Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, Vol. 18: February 1923 Although this is a four-year course, specialization does not begin until the second year. In the first year the student is given a well balanced general foundation of drawing and modeling, the theories Of design and of color, with a little lettering, mechanical drawing and perspective. He also attends a series of lectures Which serves as an introduction to the various fields of man's artistic endeavors. All students entering the School must enroll in this Beginners' Class, irrespective Of the courses in which they may later Wish to specialize. This first year is also a year Of weeding out - those patently unfit are dropped. Only graduates Of High Schools are accepted in the Teachers' Training Course. In the second year the student still attends general classes in common with those who are specializing in other fields these classes comprising drawing, nature study, rendering and a course Of lectures on ornamental motives. With these general studies the student begins the special training in the theory and practice of teaching under Mr. Edmondson Hussey - this work being more and more dominant in the third and fourth years. These teachers-to-be survey the field of human expression, that they may wisely guide the child as he strives to give shape to his budding creative instincts: they study his psychology and, under the heading Of Civics, consider his place in the social scheme. In this second year, that is, they study the child. In the third year they advance to the consideration Of the child in the school: how and what he has been taught and discuss what he should be taught and the correlation Of his studies and the part which drawing and manual arts should play in planning for him an ideal curriculum. In the final year these investigations are given practical value by actual teaching under Mr. Hussey's supervision and the studies of the former years are reviewed and welded into a clearly reasoned method Of procedure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.