| Show GREAT S TOPICS In the tha meetings of the thc Department of Superintendence of the tho National Edt Edu Educational Edl Association to bo boO hold held heh In n Washington D C on Feb 25 2 26 and 27 It la is i proposed to give a n prominent place to lo considering tho the various In Industries In public education n the tIte propositions announced for Cor discussion are arc 1 that the Ideals l cals calsor of or a n democracy require a n system of or public education that shall shon provide equal educational opportunity for tar all I 2 that equality of ot opportunity can bo be secured only by tW proper recognition of ot ofa ota a Individual differences In native ca ea capacities capacities and In social environment b it the requirements of ot vocational efficiency ency enC eec as al well as of c general Intelli Intelligence Intel gence geneo and aud executive power 3 that the most urgent need ned n ed of our educational system Is In an un adequate provision for tor forthe forthe the th vocational needs et of or children destin destined ed ec for tor Industrial and domestic put pur pursuits flUr suits suite 4 that a 1 comprehensive pro program program gram gm of ot Industrial education requires a constructive activities as a an an es cs essential senU and Important factor In the tho cia ele elementary mentor school course b intermediate diate Industrial high schools admitting children at tho the sixth sith school schol year cor and Md equipping them them for Industrial put pur pursuits ur suits c technical high schools for tor tho training of Industrial leaders Homo Bome of the lending educators ot or oril ofIn il n I ire ri l In tile the pre pro presentation or of ot these topics Tho purpose Is evident The Tho great grat teachers recognize the value of or a train trainIng Ing log In itt which all 11 children shall have hava an n equal IUn chance chanco of success Many ny a 0 child though of might bright mind and nM vigorous mentality does docs not take Lake kindly to pros pres present pes ent ant school schol courses Many Maty fall fail therein and then straightway become tho the brainiest and Inel most successful men ant women of ot business trade mechanism m and other oIlIer affairs SonIc Some who vito miss mils half halt tho the public school courses tar far excel thosa who wito take all al of oC them These hese results aro are so to frequent that they the cannot be he duo mainly to Individual differences but rather to certain Inherent weak weaknesses nesses neeses In itt II tho the public school courses What tho the leading educators now pro 1110 propose pose paso Is to give glo to the tho child who ho Is not mainly Intellectual nn an opportunity to 10 learn things thing that will vIii wi prepare him hint for COl service In the lines In II which ho can cn an do dowell d well veIl wol If I the thc child Is not primarily In Intellect 11 of u IL certain type he will wi not not excel in school courses as al pow now organ organized organized If Jr I he ho In ht mainly of or the volitional or motor type tyle tho the door of opportunity which the tho schools are arc supposed to open opo Is practically closed to Wa We Vo note noto nl al o an address to bo given by the tho assistant secretary of ot a agriculture lure ture tUI It I Is thus thul designated Agricultural tural Industries and luel hod Homo Home Economics In Iii 11 the tile Public Schools Other topics equally significant deal with wih tho preparation of teachers for tar agricultural education lion James Wilson lson Secretary of ot Agriculture and Elmer Elinor 1 Brown United Unit State Commissioner of or education are aro to lo pro sent this title tonic The Tho training of ot teachers by b agricultural tural turl colleges by state normal schools scholl by b a n between those these two IWo and by b cooperation of ot tho the national gov gay government and the tho States In maintaining specialists in agricultural education for to field Oel work these subjects constitute another phase of o tho tue tU program The TIle bare baro bar enumeration of these thelo topics Is sufficient to 10 show what Is going goll on In lit 11 the tha national consciousness In reIn rela relation tion flon ton to tho the alms alias materials and Ind methods ot or tho the training that ought to be b given In ill the public schools Such programs o vIews but hut recently express expressed cd ed Id by b titis paper I would 11 that state normal schools either Ithol with wih or ot without wi hauL tho tito help hell of Or tate state agricultural colleges collages tenet must I ls I provide for tor tho the teachers the tho kind of ot training which they thoy ate arc In turn tire cx ox pooled to Impart to their pupils In lii the public schools choals In the tho face of o this thiN drift of ot public educational tendencies it I Is novel to hoar hor that a I college In Illinois has ha an un announced rt flounced that agriculture cannot cannat be ba taught In tho the common Anti And It tl U is no doubt douht perfect perfectly ly iy I true trite that such Ilch agriculture as II Is taught laught In the tho agricultural colleges can cannot n not Hot lot on account of Its Il complexity Its Is practical anti 1111 its 11 somewhat to children n uninviting aspect very vcr vor well MII wl bu ho 10 taught II To io 11 adapt this thin complex science co mind art to tho tito 11 of If tho child mind to tn 0 tirade grade Tul It I Into 1110 I it to a ii I uniformly u p i scab tu to bring out tut sharply Its Ii lt simpler 1111 bode baulo l and to tn ills dis display play IIII In II the tho ho oll etho light Its 1 Ol beautiful end fascinating phi nil 11 this thin will wi have to Ie o be bo worked out nut in II the Ih normal schools und timid will WI the Iho h blit bust Kt timelier to IQ It i c lo to II the tito thoI I mh und and 1 til to it I with tho tue dally drills In tho the formal subjects of oC reading rading Ie ge graph arithmetic dm win otc eta It ItIn I ItIs In Is II jut just hero herd hert vo 0 am nr convinced that any l will ii arise Teaching 1 I Is un art In art tut The touching or ot children in I Ii a n fine art nt In which many great groat gelt minds signally nil fall rai Wd Vt cannot l hope that tho the now I OW and complex subject of agri agriculture culture will viii wil present re ett any exception to this rule but iut t should ther expect that In 11 title subject tho the natural cu of or successful presentation and will viI be considerably In lu lucre cre as od odIn In Itt II tho the technical sense l It Is II truo tro that tho common schools cannot teach trades anti and professions and tho the move movement mont ment lo to tech agriculture In it Is iti liable to great misconception by tho public Teaching Is IB primarily not occupational ti and ant spiritual anti ant the spirit I is Ie worth more e than tho tito letter leler Just ns na much lintel In n agriculture as af In other things Tite Tho mere more giving of ot agricultural In Information Information formation can cnn have of or Itself Isel little good god result rosult ro with wih children ren This new lien may bo be made mode as file dis distasteful dil tasteful as al arithmetic and grammar often oton are ae Teachers should be he b careful not nol to Introduce subjects s merely because O practical grownup gre wn up farmers think those these subjects useful Farming Is Im Isone Isono Imone one ono thing anti and teaching IB JR another What appeals ns to to o the tho man mail may ml not ap appeal peal to tho ho Jt it J Is for Cor or the practical farmer to Indi Indicate cato cate what what classes of o t subjects he would like to havo taught It tt Is Is for tor Or tho tile teachers to decide which of tho the sub subjects the th farmer fanner Inn desires has hI enough ono i h hof of living Interest st to the tho child to Justify giving It a place In tho the dally daily exer exercises cise of the schoolroom And Anil many manya a tt teacher has ham hl found out how great i n t mistake he ho often oren makes make In supposing sU that what Is Interesting to t him Is therefore Interesting to his pupils Prof Bailey Batoy of ot Cornell Corel says a that all agricultural subjects should bo be taught by tho to nature study stud method That That method ho explains Is to see seo accurately accurately cou to ta reason reeson correctly from what Is seen to establish a I bond of ot sym Bm sympathy sympathy pathy with tho the object or phenomenon that Is studied One Ono cannot see ac nc accurately curably unless one ono has hM tho the object It self If It I the tho pupil pupi studies corn com ho should havo hove corn In his hands To introduce agriculture Into a n school it I IB is II first necessary to have a willing teacher The Te second lec md step stel says Prof Bailey Is to begin to study the tho commonest and most available object t concerning which tho the teacher has ha any an kind of ot knowledge The he third step Is II to organize these observations Into Inton a n system Usually there thore may bo be at least lest one ono person peon In the to community who Is alve alive to tho Ito Importance of ot teaching agriculture In the schools If It this person has tact and persistence he ought to get something started Tho The school promises premIse may moy first be ho put In lu order ore It I may be ornamented by b tho the planting of DC trees tree shrubs or flowers fowers Attractive school promises premIses e go a long longway longway longway way toward making maIng a I good A Apiece Apiece Apiece piece of pt ground lund should bo be secured for tor tho tIle planting of oZ 08 a plat by every pupil giving practice In school gardening If 11 possible wild ld plants plats should bo be grown gr wn and attempts made mado mao to Improve Imp o them thorn by ly cultivation In rural rr ills dis districts dl nets Prof Bailey Daloy thinks that such problems as 1 tho the rust rum of o beans benns tho blight ot or potatoes tho tilO study of ot species of or grasses observation of tho thio effects or of fertilizers and tho the testing te of seeds could coull bo ho 10 worked out In practice At all ni events tho the average man Is IB Interested to leant leam that wo we we seem to bo be boon boon beon on tho tile Co eve of or a sort ot of revolution or at nt least lest a 1 decided evolution In the course courso of study anti and the tho alms aims of ot teach teaching teah ing In tho ho common and nd high schools of at the th country |
