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Show 1 FALSE IDEA DENOUNCED. Examinations Are Condemned Con-demned at Meeting of Educators St. Louis, Fb. 27. "The most insane in-sane educational Idea that haB spread. hypnotically from the college dowri? to the firs! grade 1b the Idea that j& teacher, with forty children, can ask? a question, call on a child to recite, and grade him 0, 4 or 10, keep thjeQ up for five or ten months, then pro sent an array of quostlons to he answered an-swered and grade In like .manner and ' by the final addition of these results., determine thc'chlld's knowledge and, fitness for promotion " So said D. E. Philips of Denver board of education this morning In addressing the department superfn-, tendence of the National Education association on "Tho Child versus Promotion Pro-motion Machinery." Mr. Philips berated principals and teachers who say "such a thing si a necessary cll." D. H. Christensen superintendent of schools at Salt Lake City, addressc ed the same dppartment regarding'' adjustments and changes "Jin the course of stndv and schooloTganlza-tlam" schooloTganlza-tlam" ' j-2-u |