n |Out of
|10.30|12.00| 2.00| Dry | Wet |Disinfecting| Room | Room
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Monday | | | | | | | |
Tuesday | | | | | | | |
Wednesday | | | | | | | |
Thursday | | | | | | | |
Friday | | | | | | | |
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The teacher's daily report of the temperature of a schoolroom, taken
three times a day, tells the parent exactly what is the efficiency of
the ventilating and heating apparatus in the particular school in which
he is interested; whereas the report of the department of buildings
gives only the number of schools which have an approved system of
ventilation and steam heat. School authorities may or may not know that
this system of ventilation is out of order, that the thermometer in the
indoor playground of School A stood at forty degrees for many days in
winter. But they must know it when the principal of School A sends in a
daily record; the school board, the parents, or the press will then
see that the condition is remedied. If the condition is due to lack of
funds, funds will never be forthcoming so long as the condition is
concealed.

Similar results will follow publicity of overcrowding, too little play
space, dry cleaning of school buildings, etc. The intent of such
reporting is not to "keep tabs" on the school-teacher, the school
child, the janitor, the principal, superintendent, or board, but to
insure favorable conditions and to correct bad conditions. This is done
best by giving everybody the facts. The objective test of the
efficiency of a method throws emphasis on the method, not on the motive
of those operating it. The blackboard method of publishing facts
concentrates attention upon the importance of those facts and enlists
aid in the attainment of the end sought.

CHAPTER XXXI

THE PRESS

The president of Princeton University declares that for several decades
we have given education that does not instruct and instruction that
does not educate. Others tell us that because we read daily papers and
magazines our minds become superficial, that our power to concentrate
or memorize is weakened,--that we read so much of everything that we
learn little of anything. As the habit of re