Identifier: reportofcommitt01newy (find matches)
Title: Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on School Inquiry
Subjects: School organization and management
Publisher: City of New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ormity prevailing in the elementary schools is found inthe uniform curriculum. There can never be excellent instruction here^so long as the very definition of good instruction is nullified in a thing soprominent as the curriculum. We are keenly aware that there are many phases of this question thatcannot be touched upon here. But one other consideration must beadded. The assertion is sure to be heard that uniformity is necessary foradministrative purposes. That depends upon what administration is for.If its object is to help secure good instruction; then it is to be con-demned if it does not accomplish that end. And, provision for the indi-viduality of pupils and teachers being one of the very standards bywhich the character of administration must be tested, one of the firstduties of the administrators of schools is to overcome the tendency to-ward uniformity, rather than to establish it. And, if the proposed plan—touching the curriculum—is unsatisfactory to the superintendents of
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