Excerpt from Outlines of General Knowledge and Current Intelligence: Representing the Desired Preparation of Students in High Schools Who Intend to Enter the State Normal School at San Francisco to Be Trained as Teachers for Service in the Public School System

In presenting the following outlines as an index to the history require ments for admission to the San Francisco Normal School, we wish, at the outset, to warn the student against the idea that a definite knowledge of all the minor details here included is required. Where it is hereinafter indicated, such definite knowledge will be considered desirable, and is likely to be required in examination. But in the broad story of American history, as presented under the head, General Outline, any examination that may be given will seek to test the student's grasp of the larger phases of the subject, as, for example, colonial life, the quarrel between England and the colonies, the political influence of Jefferson, a discussion of great inventions, or any other broad topic of a reasonable nature. An accurate knowledge of the chronology of important' facts will also be considered essential; but by chronology we do not mean dates, except in a few specified cases, so much as we mean sequence - the order of events, so to speak - and the historic period to which the events belong. To facilitate this chronology, the General Outline has been divided into periods, each representing some definite era in the development of the nation.

The General Outline has been constructed with considerable attention to detail, in order that it may serve as a guide in the student's preparation of the subject. The broad knowledge of the subject which we consider desirable not only in the preparation of a teacher, but in the preparation of any one for the common walks of life, can not be. Acquired in any superficial way. It can only be acquired by a study of the smaller facts, from which the larger conceptions grow. By using the General Outline as a guide, and with the aid of a good, up-to-date text-book, the student should be able to prepare herself in the big, substantial, life-serving factors of American history.

In addition to the General Outline, a number of specific, integrated items, under the head, Items of General Intelligence, are presented. These represent a minimum summary of miscellaneous facts of common knowledge. They are the every-day, used facts of American history, and are consequently of prime importance. The student should possess a knowledge of all these facts to the extent indicated.

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