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Aim of The Summer School
-- by J E Bray

The fundamental aim of the
Summer School for Teachers is
improvement in teaching fitness
and ability, better equipment for
instructing children and developing
a right child life and its activities.

To this end it has been found
necessary and wise to give teachers
a larger grasp of school subjects a
larger knowledge of the law of
mind, development in children, of the
order in which particular subjects
may best be presented, and of right
methods of presentation. Incidental
to these but not less important is the
imparting of knowledge that will
enable the teachers to direct the play
activities of children and to guard
and guide their moral and physical
well being.

The Summer School that has done
this successfully for the elementary
teachers has done well, has made
a good beginning. The Nevada
Summer School for Teachers has
certainly done a great beginning work
for the teachers in the elementary
schools. It has afforded a large opp--
ortunity for improvement on all