CHAPTER VI

THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Importance of the Public Elementary School--Methods of Instruction--The General Obligation of School Attendance--The Purpose of the Elementary School--Instruction versus Education--Moral Instruction--General Culture--Individuality-- Beauty--Knowledge--Science--Home-Work--The Exclusion of certain Children--Rewards and Punishments--The Constitutional Element-- Parents and the School--Sexual Education--Religious and Moral Instruction--Physical Education--Manual Training--Preparatory Schools--Supervised Playgrounds for Children (_Kinderhorte_)-- Increasing Importance of the Public Elementary School--Feeding of School Children--Care of Young Persons after they Leave School--The Tendency of Evolution 185

_C._--Department of Criminal Law