Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-29 | Page 4 | In Quaker City Schools

IN QUAKER QU KER CITY SCHOOLS I Philadelphia Public Ledger people have havo comforted themselves with tho the reflection that In spite of or the overwhelming march of ot modern modem Ideas some few things timings yet ret re 10 remained fixed and Immovable One Ono of ot these they tho supposed supPO 11 to be tho the multiplication multiplication cation table Even Ben cn this comforting roll reli reliance rollance ance Is now dented denied them Everything else having boon been reformed by the mod modern modern modera ern era schoolmaster time the multiplication ta table blo ble Itself Is to be simplified and thus better bet r adapted to tho time Juvenile mind The Thic ono great object nowadays Is la to tomake tomake tomake make everything easy ellS and pleasant for forthe forthe forthe the children Whatever Is difficult must be cut out If It they thoy find twelve times hard to learn they thoy must mURt not bo be asked to lo learn It When Then they tho consider all the stumbling blocks that have haye been re removed removed removed moved from the time path of or the modern child the people must often otten wonder at the achievements of ot their own childhood But the modern child 1 has so 50 many things to study stud or r rat at least to be told about of t which his parents never heard that he ito really has not time lime to learn all of or anything Even Een the time multiplication table must be cut down donn to got it into the curriculum