Why Study Home Economics? (1955)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2007
- This fine film attempts to cloak fifties "happy homemaker" stereotyping in the mantle of science. It opens as Janice and Carol, two sisters, try to decide which classes they want to attend next semester. Janice remarks that she wants to take some courses in Home Ec, to which Carol is aghast. "Home Economics?" she scoffs. "Why in the world do you want to take Home Economics?" Janice is not easily dissuaded, and replies "Why? Because that's something I'm gonna need to KNOW. If I'm gonna be a homemaker the rest of my life, I want to know what I'm doing!"
To confirm her point of view, Janice visits "Miss Jenkins," her Home Ec teacher, who explains that Home Economics isn't just baking and sewing; it teaches "the fundamental principals of food buying" and "the psychology of clothing." "Present-day textiles cannot be judged with confidence just by casual examination," Miss Jenkins cautions, as we see shots of girls peering through microscopes and stretching cloth swatches on a mechanical rack. If Janice decides not to get married ("at least, not right away" Miss Jenkins chuckles) she can apply her Home Ec training to college courses such as chemistry and bacteriology, or so this film insists.
"Home economics training teaches ways of developing democratic practices within the home," Miss Jenkins adds, patriotically, but she doesn't have to say any more to convince Janice. "Anyone who's going to be married and a homemaker would be foolish NOT to take Home Economics!" - Фільми й анімація
I get sick to my stomach when I see comments devaluing the role of a homemaker in today's society. In reality, a strong, stable homemaker can be a foundation upon which all great careers are built and nourished. If you have that person at home taking care of all the things you take for granted, you can concentrate on building your own life, which is why some people today decide to become homemakers instead of following a career path. These people can stand back and see the value of building a strong home life, and their decision to stay at home and take care of family needs in no way reflects on their intelligence or willingness to 'contribute' to society.
Yes because it teaches a person to be organized and teaches management principles, because management stars with self, and self discipline. Growing up in the 70s we were discouraged by liberal teachers not to take the home ec classes. I took 1 semester and I find that the bit that I learned I still use today. So many inept young women and men today as a result of not having home ec and shop classes in school!
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I completely agree.....all you have to do is look around at society in 2019, and you can see the effects of devaluing a strong homemaker caretaking for her family.
It's a pity when people take something for granted.
THAT IS BECAUSE WOMEN WHO WANTED TO PURSUE CAREERS AND BUSINESS STARTUPS WERE DEMEANED SO MUCH . SO NOW HOMEMAKERS ARE RIDICULED
My mother was a self-taught, excellent homemaker; my sister is a Home Ec major (1966), I'm a Chem E turned physician. Their contributions to society are no less than mine (though perhaps, to a smaller group of people). I was fortunate to learn enough about running a home from them that I could concentrate on science courses. You could have transported either of them to the pioneer era and they would have been able to maintain a healthy, thriving family. My mother and sister never wanted any other career than to be an accomplished homemaker. I'm glad I had the opportunity to choose a different path that suited me better, but I have a great respect for their choice.
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I thought she came from Something by Cyriak.
Your Mother was something.
My Home Ec class is '98 was mandatory. I learned meal planning, budgeting, doing taxes, sewing buttons, etc. Skills we all need much more than Calculus.
As someone who us 20yrs olf I agree, sadly I never had that optiion.
Most of my generation (born after 2000) never had Home Ec as they were omitted from school curriculums due to budget concerns. Its no surprise how most young adults today don’t know how to manage their homes.
I wish they had such home ec classes when I was in high school a decade ago. I took a year of home ec and learned basic sewing skills but only how to make deserts, no actual meals. We didn't learn anything about budgeting or how to select quality meat or produce.
I wish I had a class that taught me how to select and prepare all major types of produce and meats. How to put together a nutritious and delicious meal. How to change a tire. Basic car maintenance. How to do my taxes. How to do basic household maintenance. How to put up shelving or a ceiling fan. How to grow a garden.
All of these would have been extremely useful skills to know.
Valerie Valootie I graduated in 98 and we didn't have one class about cooking. Instead we learned how to make..... you ready... pajamas. That's it. And, then we had to try on our designs. I came out and unbeknownst to me, my pj's were see-through. Yippee!
Valerie Valootie Dang, when I was in cooking part of home ec in the 70s. The basis was on how to cook entire meals. As well as how to set a proper table.
As for sewing. we learned how to make entire garments. Including how to dazzle it up. We learned several stitches BEFORE we were allowed to make the garments.
As for budgeting, that is what the class in accounting was good for.
Sangelia Storck I would have loved to have learned about meal planning, planning meals around what is on sale, couponing, and then cooking the food. Also, tips on cleaning, like how to clean w/ household items. That would have been so helpful instead I spent months making see through cow pajamas and I had unfortunately worn yellow undies with a huge smiley face on the bottom which everyone laughed at. I learned nothing. I did learn a lot though in my parenting classes but as far as kids I also think I am a natural.
Boss Lady Lauren Dang. At least what we made, we could wear in public with our heads held high. It was a smock with a square neckline. And it had short bell sleeves.
That was my 8th grade year. 9th grade I made a floor length skirt.
Both I wore in public several times In fact until my 36th year. I could still wear the skirt. I don't know what my mom did with the top.
The top I made was similar to the orange one in the link.
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We didn't learn about couponing in class. I learned that from my parents when they went shopping.
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By the time I got to cooking Home Ec. I had already had a few recipes under my belt. Had to if I wanted to snack at times. I just learned a few more tricks and tips in class. Heck, most of my recipes that I use these days are not even in a cookbook. But ones I've created over the years or got from a friend or two.
Sangelia Storck I think I learned to cook from osmosis. I remember all the talks I would have with my Momma or Granny and we would just talk and I would watch them make some of the best southern food ever. Those are special memories for me.
If you sew really good and need extra money you could always sell kids monogramed clothing on ebay or craft fairs. Mothers, myself included will pay so much for cutesy clothing with names monogrammed on it. The clothing looks really simple but it's the cutesy fabric and name that sells it. Just an idea. I wish I could sew!
In parenting class on a weekend, we had to take this baby home with us. We were given a bracelet with a key on it that only the teacher could unlock and for the next 72 hours the baby would cry and you would have to stick the key into it's back to relieve the crying and not have any strikes against you. If you neglected it, or hit it those would come up separately and the teacher would be able to tell. I had to take it out to eat with me!! Then early Monday morning at about 3:30 am it started crying and for some reason the key and maybe my sleepiness didn't mesh and I really started crying. Then on the way to school (I was driving) it went off again and I was late to school. I made a 98 on it because of the ''drowsy feed". I really enjoyed that class.
Sorry, I know I write a lot. :)
I wish we'd have home ec classes more like this.
I would love to take this class. Money management... nutritious cooking... designing/making my own clothes... how to handle a newborn... I'd be unstoppable.
Call your County Extension Office and ask if they know if there are any people offering group classes for the things you're interested in. A friend of mine wanted to learn about pressure canning and she got introduced to some really happy homemakers who were retired and she had the best time. Good luck!!
Edit: The meetings/classes were free
These classes are called “Family And Consumer Sciences” now
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9:05 "...what I won't tell her...
And she never told Carol about... something...
I'm kinda scared the original video more than cyriak's
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7:35 *where literally **_something_** started*
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This is sooo needed again in schools. I was fortunate to have a sahm - I learned how to cook, sew, money management, laundry, ironing,... from mom & learned about cars (changing tires, charging the battery with jumper cables,...), maintenance of the home, how to use tools,...from my dad (who was a master mechanic for a local Ford dealership & a good general handyman around home). I still took home ec in junior & senior high school. The skills of selecting groceries, needlework, sewing, making full meals, budgeting,... was the extra additions to what i learned at home. After I left home, I perfected my skills & learned what is preferred or not liked by my family. I wish i could have been able to have been a full time homemaker, but in the 80's till I retired with hubby I had to work outside of the home in order to keep the $$ comming in to make ends meet.
This video is actually very reasonable. I'm a single guy in college, and I've been putting off sewing a button back on to a pair of pants because I stink at sewing.
Also, being a full-time mother isn't negative or denigrating - I'm sure thankful my mom did it. ("The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.")
Hey Wyatt! Just FYI, dry cleaners generally will sew a button on if you ask.
Everyone needs to know Home Ec. Be it sewing as well as cooking. Too many folks these days do NOT know how to cook unless it is popping something into the microwave. Or going to a fast food joint.
During one time in a preschool. My husband and a few other parents went to a farmers' market with the kids. Those other parents originally thought that cooking good food was hard. They got a at the market a slight talk on what one can do with some of the veggies and fruits there. And what herbs are good in what foods. Those women, they realized that cooking good home made meals wasn't as hard as they originally thought they were.
But nowdays we have youtube videos and pintrest to teach us cooking
I stayed by my mom and grandma to learn how to cook only to change my eating habits and style later on in life and having to learn again how to cook accordingly to my new taste and style so it s not useful for me anymore what I learnt as a child
Something is wrong with people's complacency these days. Something has to change people's thinking. Something _will_ change people's thinking.
I took Home Ec in middle school because everyone said you got to eat cake and there were a ton of girls in the class. I thought it would be an easy grade. Turns out, I still use the stuff I learned. It's very sad, this class was phased out of classrooms, it was an invaluable class and it was always very engaging and fun. Today, I'm known among my family and friends as a great cook, all because I learned the basics in middle school trying to get close to Patricia with the Jheri curl and braces...I still love you Patricia
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My high school never offered Home Economics. I still feel cheated. It would have been such a boon to know the basics of that class.
I personally find it far more important than history class. It’s too bad schools no longer teach Home Ec.
I took Home Ec. from 6th grade until 9th grade. It was mandatory and that was around 1995. I am a guy and this was the best class I ever had. We learned how to cook, sew, and be wise with money and how to use household appliances.
On our block (1950's) you could tell just which housewife took Home Ec in HS or went to college: They had a nested collection of 3 Pyrex measuring cups in the cupboard. Others had one Pyrex vessel, if any.
So true. I have nested collection of pyrex from xtra large 4 cup to a 4 tbsp!
For one semester, the boys had to take home ec and the girls took shop. I made a decorative metal pin for my mother. We also had phys ed (we did gymnastics), heallth, and many other things they can no longer afford. It was pretty good (in the 60's).
Some of that stuff is actually very useful. I took Home-Ec in Grade 9 or 10 (I'm a guy, by the way) and it does teach you some valuable and interesting things about cooking and sewing and stuff. Why, just the other day I had to sew up a rip in my work clothes, and thanks to Home-Ec/Family Studies, I knew exactly how to do it, and do it well.
I took Clothing Construction and Cooking and Nutrition in the 1960s. When I got married I was able to sew all of our curtains and matching bedspreads, not to mention our clothes. When I had to work, I was able to get a job in fashion merchandising. The hardest part about that job was figuring out all that complicated math! I went on to higher-paying jobs, but I will always be thankful that I was able to take home economics courses. We could live on so much less as a result. Plus we had what we wanted, not just what was available in the stores.
I find it weird to think that not many ever seem to have realized that this was (and is) what seems to be the quintessential high school subject for adulting. The subject is exceedingly useful in just about any angle you look at it from, even more so when broken down into more specific areas like the management of clothes, food, family, home, and technology
Where were all these amazing sounding courses in home economics when I was in high school? I learned to make a pillow, and sew a pair of shorts. I learned how to cook a quesadilla and not much else. Moving out for the first time was terrible because I had no clue how to manage a household. What are we as a society to do if we all have amazing degrees but can't prepare healthy meals on a budget or keep our toilets clean?
+LuckySab you gotta see the 29 yr old male roommate i got: if i'm not here to scrub the shitter it stays that way! have given up cleaning the fridge - i have a small cube fridge in my bedroom. when i left home even knowing when to launder bedding was beyond me. instead of feminists screeching sexism and misogyny during the 70s and 80s getting rid of real home ec it should have been kept. this a
ctually a decent film.
These women were prepared for life on its fully. All the basics for life if we learned this today we were well off. Excellent foundation for life
They need to be teaching kids what to do with the basics. A bag of flour, sugar, rice, oats, beans of various sorts, tin of baking powder, yeast, etc. If you ask a typical teen aged girl or boy or a typical 25 yr old, how to make bread, from scratch, with no electrical gadgets and just a few utensils, they'd be stuck. These days, no one knows how to survive without a grocery store, or worse, a bunch of fast food dives.
What planet are you on?
And why should we know lol
We have groceries stores everywhere and bread making machines, it s really useless to know how to make bread now
Wow, in this pandemic everyone wished they had these skills with no stores or restaurants open and less money to go around.
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This video is hilarious because when I was in Junior high and High school (late 80's early 90's) Even the most MASCULINE boys couldn't wait to take home ec! It was considered one of the most fun classes in my school! Why not? for 50 minutes we got to escape actual subjects with boring WORK like Math and History and instead sit in a kitchen making cakes and cookies while socializing and having fun the whole time! It was like like an escape from all the other boring classes!
I love this so much! Makes me feel like i need to start learning how to be the best homemaker i can ^_^
Innovative, sophisticated, and supremely confident heroes that held up society by holding up the family.
And now here we are today...
The video of something from Cyriak but this time normal
I learned to cook and sew in Home Ec in the mid 60's and I am now an excellent cook and a very good seamstress. Home Ec RULED!!. It's a shame the PC police have gotten rid of this curriculum much the same way feminists have denigrated the whole concept of motherhood.
I never saw stories about people leaving children in cars to die back then!!
Feminism was unfortunately used as a psyop to a great extent by the likes of the CIA and Tavistock with the intent to undermine the nuclear family and Judeo Christian values.
@@yodservant For what purpose? I'm asking seriously because I'm curious why the CIA would bother doing that to their own Country
*Wait, where are all the faces?*
We need this back, bring back home economics
This video reminds me of something, I can't remember what.
Plus, home economics can seen as real world example of core class like math and science. For example, sewing can help with buying fabric which uses algebra and cutting fabric for a quilt or a dress uses geometry. Cooking can be use a real world example for chemistry which would be the process of cooking and biology, like the transfer of germs and basic nutrition.
I graduated in 2005 and wish my high school offered both Home Economics and Shop Class I would have taken both. Actually the old class rooms that housed Home Ec and Shop are how computer labs.
So... I can't be the only person who arrived from Cyriak's video right???
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after closer inspection, this is surely *something*, study shows.
Seriously, how many of you came here from Cyriak?
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@@nothinger4800 Good work.
I know i did.
Who else is from Cyriak?
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Cyriak anyone?
Something.
This is so cool I wish this was still a thing!!
Sorry for the non home economics related comment. But did anyone search this up after watching “something” by Cyriak?
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@@DrawnTurtle nice!
Cyriak used footage from this video for “something!!”
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I can honestly say I do agree with you. I, too, am a guy who did take Home Ec in the 10th grade. It has been very beneficial to me over the years. A man who can learn to cook and take care of a house will not starve unlike a man who will not even learn and expect a woman to do it all.
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Very few people did
My grandmother was a Home Ec teacher. Back then, wives were judged by how neat and resourceful their homes were run because it was a job and a duty. Women learned how to cook and preserve food, upholster furniture, clean a home, make clothes. In general, make life more efficient and comfortable for the family. We can all learn to do these things as a family.
I graduated Queens College with 3 certifications: early childhood, elementary education and HOME ECONOMICS. I have been game fully employed in each area. The principals of home decorating have served me well, making healthy meals and clothing construction fascinates people when I say I made it myself. Too bad this will soon be completely cut out of High Schools and soon after college.Laugh if you like, ignorance is likely your reason for being so judgmental.
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I am 60 years old and I had to take home economics every year from middle school to high school. It was expected back then. Nowadays I can see how they could be updated and made to be suitable for this time. Nowadays people enjoy cooking and I think specialty classes such as ethnic cooking, canning etc would be helpful.
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This is the twisted version.
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The course actually sounds pretty well-rounded...
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What you say is very true. I have seen first hand that these young adults that we had as neighbors who cannot keep a home very well. Too many young people get out there in the world with not a clue of how to cook for themselves, take out the garbage (leaving piled up in the garage or next to it for weeks on end), clean up after themselves, be courteous to neighbors by keeping the noise levels down at night, etc. And they end up getting kicked out of the rental property for trashing the place!
Hi justlisten67, just reading some of this exchange here and have to stand up and applaud you! Of course I believe you're right as rain and your responses are well worded and you kept your dignity, bravo.
Duh, I came here for "something the video".....
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I want this major to come back.
I’ve only ever wanted to be a mom but I’m expected to be an academic that chooses a career. I don’t want a career!!
Quantum Dahlia: If you do a Google search, you should be able to find programs that may not be called Home Ec specifically, but is still the same thing. Good luck with finding your future
This was the other film that the girls watched while the boys watched "Why Study Industrial Arts" another Centron production
I went to a private girls school and in the late 70s, somehow our particular year always missed out on home ec, every single year. when i was in first form, 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th did it. when i was in 2nd form, it was 1st 3rd 4th and 5th and so on. we totally missed out, it was bizarre!
I had Home Ec when I was in school back in the 70's. I'll admit that I wasn't good at it. But I still had to learn how to cook and sew; even though I never got married and had kids.
I'm 22, and we didn't have 'home ec' but my highschool had compulsory courses of cooking, sewing (textiles), woodwork, metal work and computer skills for all 13/14 year old students (both sexes). You could also take one of the above as an elective at ages 14-16. However there was no budgeting and no mention of taxation or banking of any kind. Unless you took 'business' as a senior.
Who came here for cyriak?
That is the ONE reason I searched this.
@@Jimmietruck same lol
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@@Jimmietruck lmfao you know it. Commented this since I was 14-15 and now my ass is 21 😭
Wish i could live in that era for a few years!! And other eras too! This is o sweet!
I taught myself how to cook as I felt our home cooked meals were...less than satisfactory lol. My uncle was a cook in the Navy, and he taught me some things as did my Dad. My mother made two dishes very well, and the rest was usually made by my sisters. I was forced to take home ecc, and learned nothing lol. I taught my kids to cook, very young and now all four are awesome cooks. Including my son! They'll all have to go elsewhere if they want to learn to sew...
I agree. And it should be ALL kids.
But it should start at 7th grade or even 6th grade. Since many kids are unfortunately latchkey brats. And they should know how to prepare healthy foods instead of chemical laden snacks that one heats up in the microwave. And calls that cooking. Too many adults live like that too.
I'm here to absorb any knowledge I can to know how to support myself at home
my parents raised me and my siblings at weekends, before school, from 5 onwards and holidays. If one were sick one would stay home.
The fact is that i am no worse off because one parent did not stay home full time. And i'll have you know, we were darn lucky to get a woman like we did. It is not always an option to have one stay home parent. Parents make sacrifices every day, but by workin you can provide for the family. So if there is no money, there wont be anything to raise the child with.
That home ec teacher looks just like my old home ec teacher, lol. I loved that class.
I think this video is great!
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Well, this was *SOMETHING*
Thank god this one isnt cursed
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Am I the only one that wasn't sent by cyriak?
The mutation of faces from hell had stopped
After Seeing This Video, My Face Has Deformed Into A Weird Growing Multiple Screaming Mouth Face. That Was Something To Remember Too...
it was *something* to remember
I'm an industrial engineer. I demand respect.
This is...
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It surely is something, my friend.
Fun fact:this video was the template for a cyriak's video
Janice eventually married a wealthy doctor who was impressed with her homemaking skills...he took care of her for the rest of her life...they lived happily ever after. Carol took Auto Lab and became her hometown's first female mechanic...she married Peppermint Patty and they had some sperm donor kids together...they also lived happliy ever after! ^_^
Is Edna A Hill still teaching Home Ec at KU?
somethings up with this video...
I can't put my finger on it HmMmMm
from the age of 4, i went to school from 9 am until 2.10 at the very least, and i was the youngest of 4. Our parents returned home from work at half 4 or 5.
Yes i feel i was so deprived from being with my parents for those few hours...
with both my parents working I was able to get a better life because of their salaries. Its surely not a horrific childhood? And no I loved having my minder there, I was so sad when she stopped minding us.
I wish my school still taught home economics.
I also had home ec when I was in school back in the 70's. We just basically learned how to cook and sew. (I wasn't good at sewing anyway.)
Although I never got married and had kids, I still had to learn how to cook and sew.
Every middle school I've ever seen has a 9 wk requirement of home ect, for boys and girls. In addition there was a 1 semester optional class for 7th graders and a year long course for 8th graders. My school offers a 3 year cooking academy where students eventually get to be assistant to a chef. Were there any guys in your home ec class?
something by cyriak. :3
2:30 the heads!!!
You dont need Home Ec. Knowing that a right angle is 90 degrees will solve everything.
Or what the Pythagorean theorem is and how many sexualities there are. Who needs to understand nutrition, financial management and relationship maintenance 🙂
My grandmother took home economics in college, and when she graduated, she realized that she wasted 4 years of her life because she went on into business
Any other guys taking this class?
Something...
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like other centron shorts, this was filmed in lawrence kansas, home of the beakers
I never did took H & E, but many of the work I assisted in High School did manage to help me be more self sufficient (I'm a guy). Its funny that my ex gf can't even cook or clean I had to do everything, all she did was just sit on the couch watching tv or the internet, no job and always complained about everything ( fixed that problem). Most people male/ female can't even pull any of this with out having someone else do it for them or buy premade. Our obese population is showing us that.
I wish I had home ec 😢 now I have to teach myself all these skills or pay for lessons. Luckily I don’t have a husband and children yet so I have time to learn for us
wow!! families actually eating together ...miss that:(