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Show sentence that drops frcui the Hps of their teacher. She Is a store house o knowledge for them, and if proper care is token, proper ideals held up simple tales told, they are there riaJy to drink them In anj apply them. As the grades advance; the same care should be taken, but the application should be different. Then, too. It re quires the studv of individual puplis and the application placed In a different differ-ent light. Prof. Fred L. Charles rtruck the keynote when he stated that we were ft Mowing th-? medieval methods of teaching that wo make the child sit haid and fast in a sent and expect it to learn when thai Is diametrically opposed to the natural way of the child to gather Us Information. Its powers of reasoning are not developed; develop-ed; Its fetasp of language is limited, and it takes in more readily tarcmh Its senses of ight and, touch and by i association of ideas. So in the moral ! training the llulusi i atiive is the bt j I ter method.'' ; 1 'CHILDREN Iff I THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS The cft'orts put fnnh by different , societies :tnd orcunl.aiien.s e,f thi-i city : in the suttclv of children is U be coiu-mende-d. Parents classes ar- beln? j held in the various churches fer the- , jiurposea of making a carefcl study of the child, and different societies are demoting their attention to matters in the child's interest. Supt Mills Is carrying on a system of nicotines f r the patents of the children in the public scbrools. Mr. Mills woiks 011 Uie plan that we all are children.: s-rne of us with a HUle more epe -lence- that others and that sometime ; those children n their tender yc-ars j e xhibit more wlsdoni than some older j I children. '. ! "We all have our social pets, cki! dre-n as well as grown-ups," Mr. Mil'"-says. Mil'"-says. "There U a natural public s ml meni in each of these proups whb.li will readilv whi: into lin any oa.-who oa.-who dares har.i againti i'- A sma:! boy objects to wearing an article cf clothing that i-. not common in hlv- pronp for lh.. public senti'i:ent in 'hJ group would be too strong m ains' bim an-1 It Is an injury to the ch'.ld and a wrong on the port of the parent t 1 force a child to compete with thi.-. ben time nt. The t-cnool., ol- the city have m re to do with the making t a community commun-ity than mod people real'-0- Therein is a force for good thit cannot be c.e-re6tlnated. in education; the child you educate also the p"-r'nts- for chl1" (lien Lrlng their bits of wbdo;ii and , in their mple way Impart It to their j elders. 1 I "Every little mind in 'he lower ' grades is graspin; for useful Informa-! Informa-! Hon for knowledge Not alone are l hey learning to rend and write and 'cipher,' bett they are U'"6 ,n every. |