Show WAYS OF CHILDHOOD I ADDRESS AT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BY SUPT COujbEB Talks Entertainingly and Instructively Instruc-tively on the Training Development Develop-ment and Nature of Children Superintendent Coo el of the public schools made a practical and Interesting Interest-ing address yesterday morning in the I First Congregational church on Childhood Child-hood and Childhoods Ways In the I course of his remarks the speaker explained ex-plained that the days of the pedagogue as a tyrant have gone so have the days of prohibition and fear as ruling forces In the government of the child In the old lime It was thought necessary neces-sary to resort to tho disagreeable In the management of children on the theory of no smart no cure But we do not hear so much of that now The endurance of hardship was considered the root by which the child was to arrive at development But we have come to realize that If we would deal happily with children we must consult their natures and deal with them gently However there Is danger In this age of swinging too far In the other dlrec Hon us we recoil from the lon recol old and harsher methods and tending to sentimentality mentality The best plan is i to sLop short between the two The meanest thing in the world is Indulgent love I Choose rather the love of faith hope and encouragement Take account of I childhoods traits and tastes or else do not attempt to win childhoods love effectually Children liko I I things better than abstractions They like the concrete from which they tend to thinking to reflection Books I are merely an instrument Children like their animal life and should be I I allowed to use It freely They like living liv-ing things the best the movable better I bet-ter than the Immovable They like activity and animation that has a purpose pur-pose back of it As children like to use their hands schemes of education should employ not merely the memory but the hands the motor forces Children Chil-dren like brightness beauty color the sunshine vividness of action they like freedom although It is not good that they should have too much They like tho power of choice and it Is good to give them at times the power of responsibility re-sponsibility They like sympathy principally prin-cipally from those of their own age I but aro by no means averse to sympathy sym-pathy from those older than themselves I who have not forgotten that they them Holves were once young Remember that children aro Individuals and have inherent rights Time attention paid by the audience showed that the address was greatly appreciated I |