Show Predicts Outdoor Classes for Future Furore Students By lay OLIVE ROB ROBERTS ROBERTS BARTON DARTON Children learn nio more c q quickly ly through brough interest than compulsion That's ono one thing thine for forus us to k keep lV in O Jn minis mind T What they heard In fresh air they remember 00 90 per fler cent of of- of that's that another thing wo we should not lose sight of ot hoso two tWo- things T 1 T. T believe are going to shape the as as well wella a as Js s- s the structure of ot our future schools 1 r Just a n. word word about this matter oi ol of fresh air NOW New school buildings even now now are practically all glass Splendid That Th-it lets 1 In sunlight and better still the th windows wIndoWs' are Bro ar arranged arranged ar- ar ranged to let Jet in ft floods ot of fresh air without ut endangering the tho children also new heating apparatuses ses' ses furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish fresh air m moistened and tern temp pared for small lungs to Inhale But is it enough In a lJ line lime let me the make a sweeping statement nl that may m meet ct with incredulity now note that those who may linger Unger on this mortal sod Md fifty years year hence may not think so o strange Classes will bo ho hold outdo outdoors rs whenever cr the weather permits Some day J. J well we'll have havo fresh air or rat rather t open air schools ITS IT'S C DONE NE IN rN EUROPE I Indeed cell in c certain fresh air camps in Europe where children with lung trouble are ire fighting for life they do It now no non Tho children study outdoors in n the tho snow sIt B show 10 sit sitting ting In lined fur bags and wearing fur hoods like Eskimos Now for that moro more elusive thing r Take Tak ourselves f for r Instance What do wo Ito do best Tho Iho thin thino thing wo tiro like Jlko and want tc to do certainty certainly Oh but we WB cant can't so go through life lice Just fast doing oluS' the tho things we like Wo We like Ule to paInt but weve wee got to tomako tomako tomako mako beds bed and W wash h dishes and cook coot wo we 0 like history tory but we have had to study and shorthand KO so WOo we can earn carn our b bread cl and aud butter er V Well We'll not not argue that perhaps t tho to bread might have been just as Js thick k with perhaps a little Jam on top if it tho ll history tory of or orth th the painting had become tho tiro means cf rot Jot livelihood rot b because history and ami painting bring bigger results than the thc routine and shorthand but b because uso through sheer ih l there Is no telling t to what heI heights we may Juay have bavo Jon gone How can Wf manage tills this business busi 1051 ness of ot training children to a higher hel degree of or perfection through J their Interest It is simple By Icy making them interested In tho the things wo we want them to learn leant PRAISE FOR MOVIES Again tho incredulous catch meui me mo mou u up ui and declare it cant can't b be done lono t I t argue r that the they dont don't know bc bc- bc causo wo we hare havo never e cr tried I am sin going back to my 01 old 1 hobby tho hobby tho movies Tho The idea of ot school movies mo moles movies ies les Is 13 gaining c lS slowly but Id I'd like to see fiCO it t como come along alouS' more moto tuek- tuek ly Movies Ics to supplement the textbook text- text b book k in teaching p practically every thing will Ill stimulate interest I 1 believe the tiro day will ill come cotito when wo o wont won't be ablo to ke keep p chill ehll- dreu home from front school I dont don't suppose Ill I'll live 11 to sec ec it but I be believe bc- bc JI lieve o firmly that some of you bu will No more dragging and coaxing an and 1 threatening no no moro more dreads and s sinking heart on the part of ot the tho children That would w uld bo be Utopia In- In in dc NEA 1 |