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Show THE REVIEW. and it will not be many years before womans clubs, parents, teachers and pupils, all working together, will cover all the walls and fill all the corners with beautiful and correct works of art. Perhaps of all the problems presented to us the relation of teacher, parent and pupil to each other are worthy of the closest study. The teacher and the school are often blamed on account of conditions for which the parents are solely responsible. Naturally in this connection is the complaint that we so often hear that the schools are forcing houses, where children are treated like hothouse plants and compelled to go faster than is good for them, so that they often break down mentally and physically. When Mrs. As child fails to keep up with the class and is required to go over the grade a second time, is it the teacher who urges him to go on?-Neve- r. The very question shows forth its absurdity. It is the parent always, who says, If Mr. Bs child can go on my child must go, and who appeals to the principal and superintendent till they often weakly yield and the child goes on, to drag through the year, a miserable school existence. Many a teacher has begged the pupil and the parent to influence the pupil to go over the grade once more and so be stronger for all the coming years, only to have her labor for the pains. An Elgin lady, whose daughter will be well on to twenty before she gra duates from the high school, said to me recently, Edith will take the first year of the high school over. She stood just high enough to go on, but I am sure she will do better and stronger work during the rest of the course if she goes over this year again. Besides a young persons school days are short at best and I am very willing to have hers last as long as they , If every parent were as wise friend fewer children and youths would fill early graves. Some of the reports mention as one of the crucial problems of their towns the incompeterce of the superintendent and many of the teachers. In as my again. what to do with people who are over fifty, which is now agitating the business world, seems to be answered here by the reply, Let them stay where they are till death calls them. There is no reason why a superintended or teacher should not keep abreast ot the times and by his experience and more mature judgment add to his value but truth compels me to admit that those who do, are to those who do not as one to twenty. It becomes, then a question, whether politeness to old friends should be observed to the de- The question triment of hundreds often thousands of young people, who will be hampered all their lives by being . . can. such cases the political situation often complicates the school problems or the fact that the present incumbents have occupied their situation a quarter of a century or so seems sufficient reason for their staying as long taught, during their youth, in old fashioned methods. and behind-the-time- s Time forbids my touching upon many moral questions that have been suggested, or practical ones, like the lighting and seating of the school room, where the feet of many pupils never touch the floor, the cigarette habit and many other evils that appeal to us as soon as we begin to investigate,' many of them sowing seeds of disease never to be eradicated, and all of them worthy of our consideration. In considering all these problems we find so much to be done that it seems as if we could not wait to do one thing at a time and we want to do everything all at once, and one of our most serious problems is how to possess our souls in patience and assist evolution, instead of attempting revolution. Wherever we turn we find selfishness, ignorance and jealousy belock-in- g the wheels of progress. Those who never turn their hands over to help any one, are unwilling that anyone else should help, and they put all possible hindrances in the way of their more helpful neighbors. It is strange that this should be so, but it is the experience of all who work for 3 the public good and we must take that fact into our reckoning, if we are to accomplish the best results. Let us all remember that little good will be gained by sledge hammer methods and opposition. In the fable the wind and the sun strove to influence the traveler to remove his cloak. 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