Show Our Present Educational System I A prominent New England educator r IIon A P Stone of Springfield Mass merely criticises some of the present conditions of f the public educational sys temii IL U v says the greatest need of a hrv 0 number of teachers is a knowledge Glt theIr Business that in very many cases Pupils 1 are taught to memorize instead of king1 le to a working understanding of nd mental principles There is no JjSJiang the fact he remarks that all along the is oiiir educational horizon there i gOiIig ° a contest between training and craii inning between independent and hnework lIe regards to he the chieftht1t I f of the teacher to make well train i luce I feraised men rather than pro lice mathematicians chemists or litera tors t |