Show MODERN EDUCATION by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of men university of illinois are done better tn in t tie h L now so those who ought tr io know idsert tit t genst than they avei were vero and giles nil and wid mill trained nurse have worked hurd to tool look after the ali child to tell how to u house litin in ill 8 ello willit mill and liow how to touch him find how nw ju to intake him play luy By or won wo we touch him something about almost a everything la in these days daya he ha can draw cartoons cur of his teachers ond end design und mako make his own pajamas and play the saxophone and boka bake bis cults besides knowing something of journalism find stenography and b bua ket hull ball the extent of the knowledge with which tho the high school graduate title ling lit at least had mental or physical voli cont net tact Is li As P I 1 look buck upon the con condition ditlow 1 under which I 1 wua was taught aa a boy and con ronald sidor cr tho the educational training of chuse who acted as aa my teachers and these things with the conditions of today I 1 marvel that I 1 evoi learned uny anything thing until I 1 entered college I 1 had hut but two teachers teach cra who lind had been farther than the eighth grade in their own education I 1 had one on teacher who hud had had a year sear or two of high school und and another who had graduated gradini tod from a second rate colle college ire we learned only a few things ili li those illiterate lays days but what we learned c e learned very well W could spell and we enjoyed doing it a and n learning earn ing to spell as we did standing standa ng upon our feet we learned to pro bounce common words correctly only 0 i small per cent of the young people who come to college today can spell or sophon sophomore ioro or transferred or athletics or received or n score of other words which VP NNA 11 use 1110 10 almost dally daily not 10 per cent of the lie young people in col lage whom I 1 know isnow run pan pronounce als charge clin rge or penalize even if they were members of the A R F or played upon ahe he village football tenni team or ili illustrate or datu we learned to manage figures pretty easily oven even in our heads to reason and to work out pro bISma I 1 naked asked a college freshman a few daya tire to KIVO give me the square root of and after spending ten minutes with pencil tind paper tic ho gave it up us as too much for him I 1 could have done it it t ten in my head and so go could any ther other nornal boy in my class we learned to purse words unit ani to diagram und and to analyze sentences and to determine the various relationships between them these are unknown accomplishments today and words and and clauses in present day compositions go wan wandering d er oft off by themselves alic us its does docs tin eilf modern person pemon alt without out any regard for their parents or other till gi altic rp lativa apfl I 1 wo we wire were taught to rend read aloud in ili telli gently und and I 1 ans made in some way to like reading A fe feu days URO ago I 1 naked asked a college sophomore who wua wila retting getting along badly to renil reed a aloud from his textbook k and it might have bow been in a forel foreign gil tongue for nil the sense ho fie made of it I 1 ani not criticizing modern aduca tion im just saying alint forty yen year aro ago children opre were sent bonio c thing that the child today doean doesn usually lubow a iab western newspaper aslea |