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Show WHAT SAY YOU? Consider the school children. They toil mentally five days in the week, when mental toil is difficult dif-ficult and not at all attractive to one of their ages. They have not attained the station in life where the value of an education is apparent. To them study is a hardship that is foced upon them by parental authority. How, then, can we wake the children up and induce them to tke a stronger personal interest in excelling in their studies? How can we induce them to strive to be at the head of their respective classes? Honors in marking do not appeal to children as they do to the adult. The juvenile mind has not reached the point where it can appreciate ap-preciate to the full the glories of 99 or 1 00 per cent. What will appeal to their young minds? What will supply the incentive that now seems so often absent? Prizes for excelling in study! Let half a dozen prizes be awarded in each grade each month, so that all will have a fair show in the competition. A single prize would not be sufficient. Too often it would be a foregone conclusion as to who would win, and the incentive to excell would be destroyed. 'Every child knows what it means to "get a prize." It is an event that overshadows many others with them. A child will work for a prize when otherwise his or her inclination-would be for play. It would cost a few dollars for our school officials to arrange a scries of monthly prizes, but it would be money spent to, the very best advantage. At any rate, the idea is worth seriou3 consideration. Moab Times-Independent. |