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Title: Francis W. Parker School studies in education
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Francis W. Parker School
Subjects: Education
Publisher: Chicago : Faculty of the Francis W. Parker School
Contributing Library: Chicago State University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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a natural water course, when helaunches the schooner he has shaped from a piece of cedar, uponthe temporary pond the spring rains have formed, manifests thesame intense pleasure that is shown by the Chinese boy with hisminiature junk. Whether or not it be the sense of freedom, romance, and ad-venture that boats, particularly sailing craft, symbolize to the boy,remains for the psychologists to determine; for the shop teacher itis sufficient that whenever boys are permitted and encouraged tomake in the shop those things which lie nearest to their deepestinterests, water craft of all kinds are a favored choice. Our fifth grade class had been studying the Vikings. For sev-eral weeks much of the work had been centered in the life and his-torical development of these hardy Norsemen. It is doubtful ifany normal boy above the age of eight could without developinga strong emotional attitude come into such intimate contact with arace in whose history and myths there is blended those elements of
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Fifth grade iiaintinj:; of Viking sliip. IN THE SHOP 13^ mystery, romance, bravery, and love of freedom and adventure,together with a childUke simpHcity of motive. In various forms this emotional attitude was expressed bymembers of the class. With some it took literary form. Somemade up a play representing Leif Ericson in Greenland. Still othersmade highly decorative shields. With several of the boys and onein particular, Viking could be adequately expressed only througha dragon ship. From the moment this boy entered the shop it was evident thathe had already formed a very definite image of what his craftshould be like. After its crude lines began to take shape it becameapparent that the lad was making no copy of an historical model,nor was he following the accepted proportions of the conventionalViking ship. Nevertheless, except when called upon for assistancein overcoming technical difficulties in the use of tools, the shopteacher maintained a hands off policy, on the supposition th

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