MEETING V
Art and Literature in Child Life. (Study pages 100-112)
Ask members to bring good pictures and story-books, thus making exhibit.
(a) Place of Pictures in Children's Lives. Of Color. Of Modeling. Influence of artistic surroundings. If anyone knows of a model nursery or schoolroom, let her describe it. Are drawing and modeling at school "fads" or living bases for educational processes? See Dewey on "The School and Society" (10c).
(b) Place of fiction in education. See "The Place of the Story in Early Education" (6c).
(c) Accomplishments. Practical discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of music lessons, the languages, and other work out of school. See "Adolescence," by G. Stanley Hall.