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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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ust as the coming of the city, with the close living of people,made it necessary for the community to provide for the supply of wateras a sanitary precaution; just as it became necessary to install sewersystems, to provide police, fire and health protection, so the metropoli-tan city, with its cliff-dwelling population divorced from the open fields,with its inadequate home life, and the changing social relations, has madeit necessary for the community itself to make provision for the prob-lem of leisure and in large part out of the public purse. And just asmany other activities have been forced upon the city by necessity, soprovision for the leisure life of the people will be demanded to an in-creasing extent, not only on the grounds of national efficiency, but ofindividual life as w^ell. In a sense such provision is as important as iselementary education, for it determines the nature of the family life; itmolds the child and the adult; it shapes the character and morals of thepeople.
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I CHAPTER III. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAND PUBLIC PROVISION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION. Section i. The Attitude of Foreign Countries—Great Britain and Germany. Section 2. Opinions of Statesmen and Educators. Section 3. The Educational Program of an American State. Section 4. The University a Laboratory of Research and Service. Section 5. A University Extension and Leisure Time Program for New York. Section 6. A Bureau of Municipal Research. Section 7. The Correlation of The Extra-Mural Agencies of the City forEducational Extension Work. Up to a century ago education was a privileged enjoyment. It wasconfined to the aristocracy, to the clergy and the professions. Educa-tion was a thing apart; a distinction attached to those who were wellborn. That it should be offered to everybody without charge is a newidea in the world; that it should be extended as a matter of course toall classes not only on their own account, but as an asset of great valueto the nation, is the cont

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