Chapter II: The School Plant: Educating the Whole Child 13

The Gary plant the concrete embodiment of an
ideal—Educating the whole child by a fourfold
unity of activities—The complete school:
economic and educational advantages—The school
site: playgrounds for growth—Playgrounds and
parks as adjuncts to the school—Gymnasiums—The
school halls as streets and galleries and
“application” rooms—Museums, galleries, and
libraries as adjuncts to the school—Auditorium
as school theater for expression—Classrooms as
intellectual workshops—Art and music
studios—Science laboratories—Industrial
shops—Juxtaposition and equal value of
activities—Ingenious designing of school plant
to arouse the imagination of the child—The
fourfold division of activities as worked out in
schools not built on ideal lines—The Gary plan
in the small school.