Show MORE RUDIMENTS QUITE NECESSARY Commissioner Brown Urges Teachers to Get Back to Basis of Things OLD IDEAS IN NEW IDEALS Simple Semple Schools Sc OGIa of ar Other Othor Days Dars Laid or of Education That Made Hade Men Fame that the attempt t 10 turn Iura back hak t the tide of oC modern change would I alf as difficult as to reverse the ann moon and stars tano there I Is a ar r ln kind of larking backward that plays a great ret rol role I In th the progress pro fill of II lIun Dr I Elmer K E Brown row tal 1 ted States ate commissioner of education old an a audience that fined Uw the hail al t the evening seNon lie or of I the he convention last eight Commissioner Brown made his pI a along the th II Ilse ot of returning to 10 although not to old idea and Neal IMI The old n school h he MId out of f which came re tI the men t that made American hl history were Me lions U where here f few w profited and eI many suffered In pa part rt he said Id IdI I 1 have haye no doubt that I should strike a responsive chord It If I were r to sound tI the r recall II and nd say MY let t u back ell to Ih Puns simple schools and r cot colleges which gave Iff till us our our oar Webster r our wt and our oar Samuel 1 Mono 10 and nd all the Ibe rest but we shall tI not enl enter r u n so anti and ruth There TheN I is iss s certain kind of backward er that plays a t role I I In the theIr progress Ir 0 of civilization Yoe making departure In the hi history of thought every r new w birth or sance 4 seems m to lavon p some m return to simple and nd fundamental principles l rap There Th rf Is III a serious interest which J will find among mon bo boys leaning to tolay 0 la lay or girls learning learn In to mabe Ire b bread or young yean men lIMn In th the school of oc ocI I law ur or medicine It Il la much the same attitude I In th thee all Il Real R al III rife grips tb the of the man lIIn and ancI It Is Ia adeal a aI deal I bother u than the interest which m may bt be aroused rou I by eat meth eds In subject ul tL The characteristic harat method thod 0 of I ladu I Is l and consists la In 1 leaning by song Ion the ft real 1 liming under real I Idill coe dill In imitation of c a master r Ap I accordingly I h one of the fundamental forms orm of dura t loa hat at atIt It ha has been h one of the h mot most genuine aid nd vital al elements In education from freta the beginning and nd will be e till th the end MaD a professional mesa has h acquired hili skill and nd tn made hie hi ea ca career reer by gettin sway wa from the h Iss t tf a of f the prof professional school as ae le and d going ahead ahad thereafter th ft r b 1 strength and n awkwardness wll w t Al experience Ita less made fie him ate class cia of pal public lle servants at hM I Ia Iam a am puree been n more ly praised ral an and more mor systematically T t Ig pored than have the U teacher In oar ee schools It m might ht perhaps rha be shown tint that we Americans are as genuinely all of our beat teachers rII as asare are An nor mMe moden le Ie y yet t th the fitful new and M ot that hun don haves much h to t be desired Reasonable 1 salaries rl tenure or of of Of flee e and old age pensions will help to toe e scenic re and nd r retain ln good Ia teachers hrs SI Sale SIry aey ry 8 schedules hul are advisable which pro ride Ide lo low Initial payments with relatively I rapid Ine Increases lug lit the he e earlier rileI years ot of service and n nd Increases In succeeding e years of When hn great ear Caesar went Into hate bat fI tie he placed watchers to mk make n note of those who ho should show unusual abU Sly lIT as fighters I In order that they the might have bae promotion Our Oar age of education which h ha succeeded 4 h he military mUltry age will have need t to a similar service I Let t u us hf have watchers who will make k keen lIn observation of f the young teachers who show ho na native caps repa elt cite tor or this good work of the nr newer as 11 well as the Ie old older r subjects ul jett have h In Ih them m the tv funda fundamental mental elements or of a good jIO II education te Our educational life dee depends a upon holdin fat fast to le things that nat are fa funda tAt Let us JO go oa eX and aM not net fr fear to make k well experiments Th They are re like the smut t twits hr and branches of II a tree which are rf necessary ry to te It Its and destined to 1 bear ear much mach trait fruit But Bat let letus us hoW hold fet fast t to t the main In trunk o on which the health of tM the branches branch de dep p enda for lor anyone gifted with even a vision can see Nt there k Is beA heavy work before this young generation which I now coming on II and net that tha t It will need netI a training that ha In Il II all 11 the elements of 1 endurance vigor anti and |