Excerpt from The Teacher's Manual of Music for Elementary Schools, Los Angeles, California

The predominating thought in the heart of every re¿ective teacher should be that music is essentially the most beautiful and the most human of all arts. It is also the most intimate and the most personal, for it deals with the feelings and the emotions.

Because song embodies all the elements of instruction in music - melody, rhythm, sentiment, tone-perception, breathing and enunciation, song singing is one of the aims in Public School Music. Songs, and more songs, must be taught, and every one of them should have a true moral and aesthetic value.

The inspiration gained in class singing, when hearts and minds are all bent on one thought, is of inestimable value.

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