The Correlation of
Vocational and Liberal Education
Through English Language

and Literature

By

MARY BELLE HOOTON

A THESIS

Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate College, University of Nebraska,
in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Master
of Arts, and the Graduate Teacher's Diploma,
Department of English Language

and Literature

LINCOLN, NERRASKA

June, 1917

OUTLINE 1. Introduction.

A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN RELATION TO SECONDARY

EDUCATION.
1. Agitation for Reorganization of English begins:
a. National Education Association.
(1) Reports of Committees on Secondary Schools:

(a) Committee of Ten; (b) Committee of Fifteen;
(c) Committee on College Entrance Require-

ments. b. United States Bureau of Education. (1) Report (being printed) of Joint Committee on

the Reorganization of English in the Secondary
Schools—Representing the: (a) National Educa-
tion Association; (b) National Council of

Teachers of English.
B. EDUCATION.
1. Liberal Education.

a. Develops, primarily, the intellectual and ästhetic

capacities of the pupil's mind.

b. Fits the individual to live among his fellow men. 2. Vocational Education.

a. Promotes, primarily, the capacity of the pupil to earn

a living. b. Increases, primarily, the pupil's information or knowledge.

C. AGITATION FOR REORGANIZATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

1. Bulletin 1916. No. 8.

a.

D. VOCATIONAL LITERATURE AND READINGS IN RELATION TO SECOND

ARY EDUCATION.
1. Agitation concerning Vocational Education with reference to
Readings in English Language and Literature was begun by:

Frank Parsons of Boston, etc.
2. From the agitation a wave of investigation swept over a part

of our country, concerning so-called Vocational Studies and
Readings in English Language and Literature. The results
were embodied in the reports of:

a. Michigan Schools. Grand Rapids.
b. Minnesota Schools. High Schools of the State.

Nebraska Schools... ... Lincoln.
3. United States Bureau of Education.

Vocational Guidance through English Composition.

(1) Bulletin 1914. No. 14.
4. Ideas not yet clear as to what material is best to use owing to:

a. Ignorance of English teachers as to subject matter.
b. Carelessness and indifference as to whether Vocational

matter in English should be taught, etc.

a.