Show STUDY OLD AND NI NEW I In the oJ old da days s 's children were in school five 1 hours each day a with two fifteen minute intermissions There Thele was vas no distinction as to gl-a gl grades es and antl ono one teacher handled handle all nil the pupils from the tot in the primary to the lie big boys bos and anel girls In physiology and algebra And every cry one of them learned learne They wc were e healthy health and hearty and there wasn't a pair pah of or spectacles In the schoolhouse I Now ow they are arc divided up according to grade and und andev ev every r fi fish h In th the box is made to grow Just as fast as the thelo lo vest lN U ras out to together c hel fhe They have t to stud stu study at home hornc and do do physical c culture in scho school l hours hour And they come out of or the grades Just about th the children chil then dren ren of or thirty years yeal's ago came cam out of or the lie school house The I Kanias CH City Journal has the following caustic comment on mo modern ern educational methods Never er e in the history of education was wat there such uch a frenz frenzy among among- educators to a add d courses of stu study in the public schools as to today a That has had the tho natural effect of physical and mental Injury to childhood which it IL is the thc desire to overcome Educators Educator's have found that little bodies and brains succumb to the strain the theorists have put upon them and the public school g gymnasium Is the result Children instinctively resort to the kind of ph physical l exercise best suited to them if they are arc allowed to pla play out In the open air This Is Js the theer er very best bodily training the they can have If the mo modern educators would not require so much home stU study of the tho children the hatter latter lat hat ter would not nee need physical culture during school hours But this appears to be entirely overlooked cel In pr present day ent-da ent systems I i Just what ha hal led to the tho multiplicity of studies it would be difficult to state We Te do not think anything now required of or pupils is useless Even sewing an and music have their necessary I places laces in the training of a a achild child Possibly the difference is that in tho the old days ays children learned these things at home It was a a part of or their school out education At tho the same time it must mutt be admitted every additional task laid on on the growing children means an an ana a additional tax on their strength And there seems seems' to be bc no present way of or bettering bet bet- the system |