Show military lili tary training may ree flee schools of some of absurdities of past t 1 dv DH WOODS HUCHINSON i Pre silent of jamaican Amei icon academy of 0 medicus if tho ilia world war rid us of militarism and of tho ilia drill ser dant idea in the schoolroom it may bo be worth nil all it costs modern war calls for science mid and science is precisely what our present system of A education give as 08 yet military training in ilia schools luay inay prove the ilia great emancipator for whom wo hayo have been waiting to free our system of education from the clerical shackles and classical absurdities of tho the past and place it upon a hygienic rational and scientific basis instead of deploring it wo nye should meet it half way and sea whether wo we cannot easily obtain in the name of war what yo wo have not been ablo able to obtain for tho GO bodily welfare of the child in tho ilia frivolous namo name of play instead of a hard won ivon and barely tolerated section on school hygiene we lye may bo be able to make all schooling hygienic and all education im improving p roving to the ilia body and health of tho ilia child is as well as to liis his mental development to paraphrase raso scripture it if wo we seek peck first the king kingdom doin of mars and its efficiency till all other things may he bo added unto us its modern military ideals can bo be mado made to work a real of educational values it would do us no liari to reverse our ideals for it a few decades tor for thoro there is no dauger danger of our being dragged too far out of the ilia rut first lid hd foremost the alio war school curriculum demands and films aims at n vigorous healthy well balanced and well trained body a fust class fighting man mail or what is equally important fighting woman r real militant got get that under tinder modern conditions and you also get all tho ilia brain power and nil all tho ilia beauty that tho the individual was born with schol ax ran can bo be jadoin any kind of a cell or garret but soldiers must bo be manufactured in ilia open air this solves ilia alio problem of ventilation also of eyestrain cyc strain and of crooked backs from too much desk work the things that tho ilia soldier must do tho ilia things that the engineer inest do tho the things that ilia worker tho the hospital nurse and abo arm army y cook must do aro are the very things that children of both sexes go tiro most keenly and intensely interested in tho very things on which they licy got get no practical information in ilia present curriculum wo we havo bavo so po called science courses in tho the schools but they begin i at exactly the ilia opposite end from the childs interest they are making him aiato scie nee almost as much as lie now hates good literature tho the war point of view would reverse all this and solve tho the great problem of 0 interest |