We Learn and Live: A View of the Aims and Practice of Education

Description

Ext school buildings
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"Our educational system has a five fold aim to develop:
1. The soul
2. The mind and
3. The body of the child
4. To fit him for living usefully and happily among his fellows and
5. To enable him to earn a living"
Boys playing cricket (11-13 years)
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"The child's education is centred upon the school; it begins and ends, however, in the home."
Ext semi detached house
g/v's family seated around breakfast table
ext house as children leave for school
g/v's children of various ages making their way to school
g/v's teachers and pupils entering school as school bell 'sounds'
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"The school day begins with prayers"
g/v's children of various ages involved in prayer
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"According to their age and capacity children are taught to develop their minds"
g/v's children of various ages conducting tasks such as playing with blocks, looking at a globe, sewing and answering questions
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"That is one way in which they are fitted to earn a living. Another is with their hands."
g/v's children of various ages cooking, wood working, embroidery
g/v's children and teacher in science lab
g/v's children of various ages bathing doll, washing clothes, moulding clay
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"Now they need nourishment."
g/v's children of various ages drinking milk
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"The Arts are not overlooked"
g/v school orchestra
g/v art lesson
g/v's children of various ages acting, singing
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"The children are beginning to grow hungry"
g/v's school kitchen - food being prepared
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"Two important phases of living together are the school dinner."
g/v's children of various ages sitting down to eat
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"And spending leisure together"
g/v's children of various ages playing
g/v boys (11-12 years) reading
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"This is how the the body is cared for."
g/v's children playing sport and exercising:
hockey, athletics, gymnastics
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"Games play a vital part in training the body and in developing a sense of loyalty and co-operation"
g/v's children playing sport and exercising:
cricket, high jump, netball, football,
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"Voluntary activities in the child's own spare time develop a sense of duty to the community and help the child to become a citizen."
g/v boy (17-18 years) make presentation to peer group
g/v puppet show
g/v gardening
g/v army cadets
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"Then back home to tea and to the Family."
g/v family around dinner tabe
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"The children bring their school into the home"
g/v's children at home involved in variety of activities:
reading, sewing, model building,
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"All the day's activities blend once more into the life of the home."
g/v family sitting around fire
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"These children will soon grown up and become citizens. Their education as tried to fit them for earning a living."
g/v men at machines
g/v 5-6 year olds sitting on the grass listening to a teacher
g/v's nurse and doctor
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"Using their leisure intelligently"
g/v's interior of a library, theatre-goers, walkers navigating
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"Serving the commuity"
g/v man speaking to group of children
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"Exercising a cintizen's rights and duties"
g/v man reading The Times newspaper
g/v polling station
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"And building a home"
g/v a man returns from work and is met by wife and children
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"That is the future. Meanwhile, it's bedtime."
g/v's clock at the various times that children of certain ages go to bed

Credits

Written and directed by Brian O'Kelly
Photographed by H John Cooke
Assisted by Ellis Pratt
Produced uner the auspices of the Chesterfield Teachers' Film Society
Thanks are herewith expressed to the pupils and teachers of the schools of Chesterfield.