Show abbreviations time saving that way may not re be of go good od habits our public school babool children are beyond doubt taught nowadays much I 1 i that interests and helps them all of 0 which was unknown to their parents at the same age and this instruction is given in a manner to beguile the little people into the royal road to learning so EO that it is a common occurrence to have a child burst into tears at the bec awit of 0 missing a day in school yet there must always be a yet are they learning refinement with the rest of the desiccated knowledge offered as their pabulum in the very scientific algebra taught throughout new york state and compiled by an instructor in the normal norma to save time the th e highest common divisor is spoken of as the IL 0 D I 1 and the least common multiple is the 14 C al AI what time is saved aved and why and such teaching inculcating the vulgarity later on en in life which speaks of I 1 photos and bikes and buses it if not of pants and gents if this system of abbreviating everything is taught in our schools we will simply have to stand the jeers of th refined foreigners at our being in too great a hurry burry to make money to even speak the language properly As great as wo we are our fault lies in this rushing frantically over everything every thing what the far seers are trying to teach is repose a taking of time for all the refined things of life and yet if this principle of chop chopping the language is taught at the very baso of our life the public school what can be expected of these children when they grow up philadelphia press |