ABSTRACT
Language is used primarily as a means of social communication and not for the expression of thought. The social impulse shows itself in conversation, personal intercourse, and communication. Gesture and language are the simplest form of the social expression of a child. The Artistic Expression describes drama and literature, the music, modeling and painting of the school program, all the expressive activities at all stages of growth, were the child's means of social intercourse, his modes of communication, as well as avenues for individual expression. The ideal of the school was that the music, the literary and dramatic efforts of the children, and their artistic expression whether in design, in wood, metal, or fabric, in the graphic or plastic arts—all should represent the culmination, the idealization, the highest point of refinement of all the work carried on. The musical idea has three elements: melody, rhythm, and harmony, each of which must be conceived and gradually unfolded.
