Emphasis on work

Title: Emphasis on work
Language: English
Year: 1978
Rights
Fulltext: 6 THE REPUBLIC Emphasis on work In conformity with the government’s new social and economic directions, the public school curriculum has started focusing on such subjects as agrarian reform, nutrition, food production, handicrafts, etc. These practical courses are not meant to supplant but to supplement the liberal arts curriculum which had been the backbone of the educational system. New work-oriented programs being pursued in public elementary schools are designed to develop in children an awareness of the value and dignity of work. This attitude is impressed upon the pupils early in the grades as the photos above and at right show. Below, dressmaking and other home crafts are among the vocational subjects taught in the revised curriculum. I 1-30 June 1978 Adult education is as important a part of public instruction as is the conduct of the regular courses of study for schoolchildren in our public schools. Photo at left is a class in adult education, taught by regular public school teachers. Out-ofschoolyouths (bottom, left) are also helped along in useful trades.