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Show I'fc for fc-ir .if hraln Inlury. and then, when It I" too IhIc. to acquire the interest, inter-est, we force them to rludy and we cram the in and feed them and nttiff them Mke t(n. What yoi tften get in tally da -generntion of the mental -Over." SIDIS DECLARES OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM WRONG BOSTON, .fune 2. -How tp rata a race of child prodiglee ready for college at I It year ln-gpllned by Prof. Poria 84dln 'off Harvard college. In an ensay he' haa I hirt written. rmfeanor Sidln aOn, now ! in. hai hint complete! hie aecond year al Harvard "A long a the home in dominated hy commcr- t.l idel. tin- hon will turn out mediocre tradenmen.' naa Ptofenaor Hidln. "What womler that ih child of 10 and It ran liardlv read or write, are Ml tie hrule and waste away their young Uvea in the do, dunty, overheated rooma of ihe early graden of aome ele-mentarv ele-mentarv gchonl. 'There I a period In the child hf twecn the suf-m of h and l", when he U very ino,ulnltive. Kverx thing ahould be open to the child aearciiltig Interent. Tle eplnt ol Inquiry, the gentue of man ia more p acred than anv abetract belief, flogme and creed. I appeal lo you, fath-era fath-era and n tot her, and to you liberal minded mind-ed read era, anklng you to turn your attention at-tention to th education of your children, to the training of young generation of , future rtttwene. 1 do not appeal to our official educator, to the cterkn of our teaching nhope, for they tire beyond all hope. I "The pre aent gohool ayatcin equandere 'the reeourcee of th country and waete the en erg lea and Ih li-e of our children. chil-dren. Th reboot ayatem ahould be abolished, abol-ished, and wtth It ahould go the prenerit pevchologlslng educator, tha eohoo I in water wa-ter and the achoolmarm. "He(ng In a barbaric rtale. we are afraid of thought- We are under the erroneoua bell, f that thinklKg and atudy caueea ivrvounneaa and menml- dieonh-ra. We do" not Iwk care to develoo a lot e of knowledge in our children n early |