Show L t- t DUCA RHYMES V VJ J Ji i i M USI Go j eaker ker Also AJI Criticises c uses les theS the S C i and Bi Biographies u. u of or oJ Ku Kings s and Warriors Warriors' 1 V i DF S M MOINES KOINES I ES la Ia July 5 bye t to London Bridge and Hickory DI kori Dock D k Farewell to Old Mother othu Hubbard and T There cre Was an m OI Woman Who Vho Lived In a a. Shoe JT bile MI X Katherine th D D. Blake of oC New Nework M- M fork ork City City c chairman a 4 of ot lh thu tea feo e o on 1 changes needed In tho ho demon elemen- tiry krY told American t teachers wt ry acho schools ls int meeting Ung here hero today that most of ot the fairy and Mother Goos rhymes th that thai 1 have hs been childhoods childhood's C favorite since Inca time beGun began began are aro just plain ab ab- ab Furt Furthermore she ahe and her committee will recommend to the cont contention con con- t of ot tho the National Education aa- aa n that they bo be dr dropped and und t tales le about real people bo be au substituted for tOt for the make believe ones Thoy t take a slam lam at the classics cJu too oo this committee do do the educators on and say y that the tho stuff eho should ld bo role role- ate KateO lJ URGE tURGE of CHANGES V lh There ro are other Ideas In the tho re- re report report port of the tho curriculum committee which which also oleo ten tent tenet t to revolutionize revolutionise the subjects which Johnnies and Marys will study tudy In the tho future In history for tor In Instance tance tho the stories of s and generals are arc t to be minimized and i t ow cw disco discoveries erles eries now new Inventions and new Ideas S nr aro are to to he be emphasized N. N Training for par parenthood d Is consia- consia ered essential Toy and Ure miniature machinery try are arc recommended for tor uso UBO In the earlier grades grade Shop mOp work and cookIng should be e taught not only In one ono or two but throughout through through- hout h- h out the out the entire school chool life lito of or the child It Its s fa s urged VIs Visual al instruction beats bents oral Instruction every even time tho the re rep report report re- re p port rt says sas The report port was discussed today at ata a L meeting of or the tho national council of ot the tho N N. E. E EA Al Ai AlTO T TO IMPROVE READING The l love c of ot good reading reading- must be In the American people In the tho school If It at all aU according to speakers before etore tho the library department The nation faces real danger If It this work Is II not done the librarians were told We hear much theao dB days In re regard regard re- re gard to the dangers arising from Il Illiterate illiterate il- il literate people but really realty tho the half half- educated educate person who ho knows many things thing but who left school at too early earlynn an nn a ago o to have ha learned to think clearly and ond reason well wen Is far more dangerous than the Illiterates said sail Sherman Williams WitHams chief of ot the school libraries 8 division Albany N. N Y The Thc public library should continuo continue tho the ed education ed- ed of ot these half educated peo- peo N NEITHER EITH ER READS Ell Ellen n F. F librarian of tho the Binghampton N. N Y 1 Central High school chool library said The average high school teacher does does' l and Lind It follows as the night iI the day that the nv average roge high school pupil does not readA read A librarian must believe bellevo tremendously tremendously that life lito Is barren Indeed that d does es not Inot have the tho broadening and deepening that can enn come corne from familiarity familiarity famil famil- with tho the best With r reading In the home borne fast becoming IlL a lost o.-lost lost art t It Is in the school If It at atall atall all ll t that t the future citizens of ot our republic must get this love lo of good reading Touching on Joy Reading Beading In the tho Elementary Grades Adeline B. B Zac- Zac bert hert director of libraries Harrisburg HarrIsburg Har- Har Pr added We Wo who believe In tho the power of ot books to affect tho the soul of or tho the child and who have the present happiness and tho the future welfare of ot children at heart henrt must not only theorize and hope but must be bo convinced and then use uso every cry means In our power tp to convince con teachers principals and especially boards of ot education of ot tho the need of or supplying all the tho children of ot the com- com with the proper books for tor the tho rIght Tight kind of ot Joy reading rending FAVORS SOCIETIES Less ss emphasis on mere books more moreon moreon moreon on the acU that high school students students stu stu- dents dents organize was urged b by Burton P. P i Fowler first nut assistant principal of ot the Central High school at nt Cleveland Cleve- Cleve Jand land O. O Ho said Id that the war hod developed de- de eloped an Insistent demand for re reorganization reorganization re- re organization In tho the alms of ot secondary education Z A written social record like that kept of ot scholarship should bo mado made for forc c pupil throughout his school c ca- ca ca- ca eer Mr Fowler said 1 I venture the assertion that such a record kept for lor or four tour y years ars would furnish more moro re reable re- re liable able Information about the of ot Marys Mary's school life lite her chances of oC success In college In business or a aa as asa asa a housewife than would the 93 percent percent per percent cent that places her on tho honor roll ron of ot tho the commencement program Training raining for tor work ork pia play health e Character and ond homo home membership must bo provided pro for tor all nU In the tho wideawake hl high h school UTho school group sTOUp wIth Its activities of ot school citizenship serves nerves na aa all an excellent training field for tor this process of ot socialization FOR OPEN MINDS I Teachers Du must 1 be open minded and nm sympathetic toward to these collateral activities Similarly Similar the social agencies n themselves themselves them them- selves should form torm a n part of or the pupils pupil's regular program so that the tho pupil who has u to work outside of or school I shall Rhan not bo be debarred from full tun par par- par par-I in the debate the orchestra or or hI favorite club Vastly greater opportunities than I now hOW exist for tho the expression of ot the social Instincts of ot children should be provided Every pupil should have O at nt 1 least lt one or two major social Inter- Inter ests eats In a Q school of ot two thousand tho pupils pupil there thero Is la room zoom for tor one hundred clubs where tn ten now exist School parties eh should uld b bo be under the tho control of ot a n social director wh who by means of or games frames and dances will will af afford nf- nf ford participation by all In school social so social so- so cial etal hours ours The to formal l' l high school dances arc aro too often otten a n. cheap Imitation ImitAtion tion of ot the tho disporting of ot adults Clique jazz and toddle ar are doubtful educational l objectives |