ABSTRACT
The important place that the language arts have always had in the curriculum of schools is to be explained by the fact that the chief medium of all instruction is language. Even in the courses where science and practical skills are taught there is much dependence on language. When a teacher of science introduces his pupils to technical terms, he is cultivating their command of language. When a teacher in a shop course calls a tool by its name and gives verbal directions for its use, he is for the moment a teacher of language. What is true of the subjects referred to is even more obviously true of history and other lines of instruction which depend chiefly on reading material.
