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Show GERMAN SCHOOLS. ' .".'An astonishing story comes from 5ermany that, j in the opinion of many educated Germans, the schools of the empire need a thorough overhauling. One distinguished man says: "Our system of education educa-tion and examination is approaching nearer, and nearer to that of the Chinese." Another professor cries out: "Kindermoidend," which means "child murder," and the epithet is applied ap-plied to the German educational system. Another says: ""We have-tf school mechanism, but no school organism, and. our educational system is no' longer regarded as a model by foreign countries, coun-tries, as it used to be." He further declares "that our public schools have long been snrpassed in other countries." ' - Another claims that "there is too. much of the spirit of militarism in German schools and the pupils are not treated as individuals, but like, pawns on the chessboard, without any will of theirown." Another writer says :- "My school days remain to me even now in my memory terrors of terrors." Another one tells of the remark of a little girl who was heard to cry out: "Oh, if it were only rainy." This lovely weather makes me so eager to get out and play." ; ' . All this is most astonishing, because, in this country, coun-try, the general opinion is that no schools compare with the German schools. We take it from the tone of the article that the first thing needed in .German schools is a new set of teachers. and that the military spirit has invaded the schools until the teachers have grown to believe that the schools ought to be but a preparation for the army. "When a teacher gets to that point that he or she cannot get down and call out the best that is in the children, such a. teacher ought to be sent to the laundry. .. - ,The more we think of it, the mbre we believe that the best race of men on earth, after all. is the American Ameri-can race, and we are positively convinced that in Utah, especially, every member of the board of trustees of the schools should be an American. |