24 Foot - Note 1 Contd. tion in domestic subjects rose from 844 in 1874 to 59,812 in 1882. In 1898 records show that cookery was taught to 181,973 girls, while in 192425 the number receiving instruction in domestic subjects was 488,584. Page No. 93-94 School and the Home: Direct co-operation between home and school is far less developed in England than in the United States (see Parental Education) or Germany. Nevertheless, English parents and school masters are beginning to think alike, or atleast to realise that they are all fighting in the same cause - the welfare of the rising generation. Schoolmasters, thanks to improvements in status and salaries, have largely shaken off the pedagogical dust that was once apt to envelope them. The average parent, on the other hand, is better educated than formerly, and better able to meet the schoolmaster on his own ground and to enter into reasonable discussion of the joint problems of home and school. Open days, held in connection with civic and education weeks, enable local parents to visit the various schools and institutions, which their children attend, and to see for themselves what is actually being done for the pupils. During an education week, the schools of an area usually combine to arrange exhibition of school work, and to give concerts and demonstrations open to the public. Public meetings are held and addressed by local educationists or representatives of the Board of Education, All this has an excellent effect in stimulating the interest of parents in schools of the town in which they live. An attractive handbook is usually published indicating where further information can be obtained. The London County Council publishes especially valuable guides of various kinds to education and the choice
