Show MODERN SCHOOLS i i I ARE NO OBSTACLE i Supt D H Christensen Takes i Issue With a Noted Psychologist Psychologist Psychologist When a child cb d is susceptible to outward impressions impre and has Inherent tendencies and aDd capabilities that are property properly aimi assimilated assimilated through the five avenues of the senses then there is a prodigy such as James Sid Sidle is 11 n years ear old who IB is doing advanced university work at Harvard university At least leut that is ill the way D H Chris Chrls superintendent of Salt Lake schools figures it out and be resents the imputation from the boys father Dr William Sidle a noted DOted psychologist that the modern system of child training as exemplified in the public schools of to I day is 18 an obstacle ol to the development of ot the child Dr Sidle says that any boy may learn as rapidly as his bia boy has baa learned if It he be is ia given the proper training The Sidle prodigy at U n years yeara Is the author of a monograph on ak abstruse rue mathematical lema as well as a a grammar of the Greek language The boy entered the grammar school and passed paa ed through seven BeVen grades in six months There was no ob obstacle obstacle obstacle stacle to his bia development there for he was in high school at the age of 8 a L and three years later finds him away ahead of the average student of Harvard H uni university university university Nature has given the boy Inherent Inherent ent powers power says Superintendent Chris that the average individual does not possess s The boy has marvelous sus susceptibility susceptibility susceptibility to outward impressions The exact opposite of his hI case is found in children from 12 to 14 years yeara of age ace who I have been under certain restrictions such as partial deafness or blindness s or the lack of acuteness in other senses Of course environment has ba had a great deal to do with the wonderful advancement of the Sidle SiC II boy but the inherent tendencies tendencies tendencies cies have been more marked in him than thanin in others He came into the world with more mort marked aptitude than the era e I re recall recall recall call the case of ot Blind Tom Impressions that came to his ear were as indelibly recorded as if they had been on the pho phonograph phonograph and he developed a memory to absolute accuracy Had his sight been as accurate as his hearing bearing and had he been possessed of the power to assimilate assimilate late perfectly he would have been a prodigy The present system of ot public school chool training is la absolutely no obstacle I dont believe the prevailing methods of train training trainIng ing lug tend to impede rather than assist It mental development as II Dr Sidle Sidia states stat Not one child in ten thousand could make the progress ids his boy has made no mat mast matter matter ter how perfect his environment or train tram trainIng traming training Ing if he did not possess as 1 r say 1181 a wonderful susceptibility toward outward impressions impre 8 |