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Title: St. Louis. A handbook of information issued in honor of the visiting teachers of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education
Subjects: Education
Publisher: (St. Louis)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ssion lasts from 9 : 00 to 2 : 30 XI COOKING, DISTRICT SCHOOLS. with an intermission of half an hour at noon. Substantial warmluncheons are served to the students prepared by employees of theBoard of Education and sold at cost. c^5^ t^ ^^ MANUAL TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS. The McKinley and Yeatman High Schools and the Sumner HighSchool for colored youths offer to the boys a Manual TrainingCourse of four years and have well equipped shops for woodwork, forging and machine work. For the girls, a four years course of Instruction in the Domes-tic Arts and Science is provided which includes the sewing, fit-ting and designing of garments, and the art study of costume andcolor in connection therewith, millinery, cooking, including thechemistry and physiology of food, marketing, the work in thehousehold, including the laundry work, the giving of first help inaccidents, nursing the sick, etc. The Central High School does not teach Manual Training. Enrollment in the high schools, 4,487 pupils. xn
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o oo THE KINDERGARTENS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. St. Louis was the lirst city to add kindergartens to the PublicSchool system. The first Public School kindergarten was openedin St. Louis by Miss Susan Blow, when Dr. W. T. Harris wassuperintendent of the Public Schools of St. Louis. The graduatesof the St. Louis Training School for Kindergarten Teachers be-came the pioneers of the kindergartens in the United States. In every large District School there is a room specially builtfor kindergarten work. The children in these kindergartens arefrom six to seven years of age. Tiie aim of the kindergarten education is to promote the healthygrowth of character, intelligence and physical strength. It is apreparation for the regular school work, but does not impartinstruction in the regular studies of the school. The developing influence of the kindergarten is exercisedthrough games which give a glimpse at the relations and vocationsof life ; through songs which enlarge the vocabulary and form akind

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