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Show U . "Teachers Not Allowed to Think;" One of Them Diagnoses Trouble With Present -Day Education NEW YORK "The troublew Ith schools and education In general today to-day is that out f 25.000 teachers. 23 only are allowed to think." says Henrietta Hen-rietta Rodman, the teacher who. n few -.ears K", Whle teae-hlg at Vvad-leigh Vvad-leigh hiKh school. New York, got herself her-self In the public eye by taking a stuml against the time-honored opinion thai teachers should not be mother. al6o. "A teacher should have personality," personal-ity," she eo.nt lnueSJ, liberty to think, and then go .about it in her own way. v tr-ai I . i is now both the voice of ;od. the stunpidest soi of meohan- ;vm Each te acher should be different In herself and himself, and leach accordingly ac-cordingly "Then, too, I believe in a great Variety Va-riety of teachers. Each child shoubl pass through us many teachers' hands a.s the child has moods. And no teacher teach-er should stay in the room all the time, nor should the teacher's word be law.'' Ml?;; Rodman believes a teacher should never solve for a rhtld what he must know for himself. In her con-ceptlon con-ceptlon classes should be maeJe up of clubs, governed by the children. A teacher should be called In only as an -p n adviser sot D-STIRRING WORD Teaching In Itself is one of the moct bcautifui a eel satisfactory contacts con-tacts we havo with the new generation," genera-tion," ;ays Miss Rodman. The word Bchool sholud b a BOUl-Stlrrlng word, not the dead groy thin? that it is. "There the seven steps in the development de-velopment of the seven loves should be taught : First self-love. Second domestic love. Third ramantlc love. Fourth friendship. Fifth patriotism. i.lh love of humanity. Seventh religion We all have the first, most of us the second and thi"d. the fejurtli to a certain degree, and the fifth as a sort; uf habit Some attain the love of hu- inanity, but few have the emotional mechanism required for the seventh religion a oneness with the universe a loye of all that we see and cannot tee. all that We know and cannot know. N I CI PRORIiFM l uIF "Education la only, the struggle lo live- beautifully. What are we doing "The seven steps in the development of the seven loves should be taught n the modern SChooL" about It? Teaching Chinese ideals andl perpetuating the post- Here am i' still teaching the Sir Rodgei de fcoverly papers, when I would like to be teaching teach-ing Herrlck anil Conrad a-.id t'hckho and I've been doing It for tvventv years. When the schools first took,' up ihe re Coverly papers the Ideal1' vvjs itentieness and - hmda Ity our vital, problems now are both more dynamic and civic. Yet we are still teaching from books whose authors were afraid of life and the truth." The most Important class, in Miss' Hodman's opinion, should be the class, politics. All. grades should be the i .politics. AH grades should he taught politics and the duty of the community. There should be more moving pictures In clas.J ami lesa an-! an-! dent history. MovlcS could bo used. ! she believes, for the teaching of llt-j llt-j erature. history , painting, art of all i kinds |