Show REGARDING EDUCATION an communication from our local superintendent of schools the of the public schools school and ohp lail tit is 11 lacking in the high school tile the great argurn ent against the ap ai tallon allon of money for the ance of high schools school 19 that comp comara mra lively few attend the high school comparatively few enter blob school compa number grix this athla I 1 la especially true ot of the boys boya some school men are coming out boldly and declaring that the school bud anil particularly the high leilh Reli ool fa N for atie select few fc 1 arid anil that sonie sonic elrad have hae not that pecolar quality jua llly which Is to lo education uric and those in the iho larh bah school are tile the survival ival ol of ilie hie with vuu the doctrine of the rown few ibal hate hae nol bhul peculiar quality susceptible to education edu callnn und mid the llie bur ival of the Int etL na its regards school work I 1 wish to take lake issue alic ile school in an all institution or cl ci ill alion chilgren Chil Iren are arc passing lt through tile ORN age anil and b stages which va aich preceded prec tiled ChIl lalion the lb Is abnormal to lo the state stale of the children therefore the neca of custom cu or of lite parent find tile the teachers tou chers are to kelp tile children lit in school even lit in the lower grades on account alf f these influences practically all children attend allend the primary rin iary grades boan wy as well m ell ny its girls therefore it la Is tile popular thing to lo doall aro BO oung that bhul tacy fire under com perfect control or of parents and catchers the boung barbarians contact rebel they are completely in III the life of they cannot escape the chilling process of tile school lost bosl of the hie children are still I 1 in school throughout the intermediate grades gradei but signs or of restlessness begin to toRp livar some drop out lot in the thare is quite a noticeable thinning ib ion ing out find although nil hough beare we anre uldry briand of our high we bite ie few Ca enrolled rolled in fit tile the high those who mho enter the hie first primary and it must be confessed that those thane who he graduate from froin the lite high school are arc an insignificant por cr cent or if those m who ito wore ere enrolled in fit tile ills ilist primary let us look fur for the reasons fur for alil tills condition there is an air idea deft foot that there arc two kiiken of le I 1 e that obtained front from books or it sonic game call it il book learning nil and eddi etlou or learning earning outside of books wo hearlon hearion all hill 8 tile hie excuse or complaint complain I 1 given without oily of censure of life hie teach cri or schools beh that thai ft a boy or girl is aright enough find Is 11 a good hand to lo work bit therit lie or site filie cannot get hook learning now let me state right here that there us is no place for on or la ahe e or in the depths benent beneath if A man who has bus book lbook learning Is tike the yale brinl m who ito had to haw wood for fora 2 lit liing fig ile he could repel repeal deery e cry word in till idl the books ho oer ever studied 1110 this was As book learning arnine lc what bhul was tile hie trouble leO it il was tills this he hall had bulled to get eel tho the meaning or the idea by the words and of course ll 11 baing 1119 failed to get the meaning lie ho could riot nol apply that meaning to lo the solution of life problem of life A va word ord a sin alarce a paragraph a book is nothing in itself every eiery word should stand for an 00 idea and that thai idea should lie le in tile mind odthe one who uses the word theford the word should be perfectly fruits parent it Is if the idea that should be acea just so io with till every sentence paragraph or book it il should staff alami for ideas slid and thoughts and the ideas unit and thoughts call nut not be gained littlest they are of real things unless the y 11 tand bland for and when used re prescia t left real menial activity it in reference to real tangible things suppose uc me begin fit t lite hie first primary prima a ry und mid let every word land and sentence taught be ulie halh fall meaning tho ali del deliK g lit lil theroy or of the hie children lit in tills new Ille lital tactility is intense A wonderful new and beautiful world Is 0 pealing opening ui oil to them let not itol a thing be attempter that can riot not be matte real ind and tangible iet the work tork pro gross grets no faster than tile the dinald of tile child unfolds for any pi lit to KV go beyond the hie of tile llie child hla to a blight as las severe and fla a froal to a plant let this ihli work roun goon nil tile the grades anti and life itie blame founie le lel light 1 mill I accompany nil all tile hie school work the it word ardi in the books ire are beckin becoming ing more and more transparent of more said and more clouded until ever clothing ii darkness chatis and old night truth clearly presented ni ap peals to the human intellect Irre archili busti bly truth unit and tile ahe of tile the truth u m ill not nol have bue tiny such do dc deadening effect as am is suggested by tho the terms beleal Bi few unit inri nl of the fittest truth ud ad to a mind or faculty nut not 3 et ct active accle is not presented at nil fall tuo too under tinder the reg fine ile he Is ii considered one of tile rem 1 or I 1 lle I 1 to 61 11 licht m aho vho ito Is able to lo filet to characters anti and the sounds they rip III rl bit ba that when a is asked he cliff forth tile llie required d bounds Inath oer the one who tie will victor nol or cannot mc monize jargon jt irgon one u who ho refuses to lo foot himself with ich words florl we me as slow or stupid lil one to bo bat eliminated front from the I 1 few or tile tl llOTt ll 11 or at best beal to lie be tol orated at the foot of the iho class HIN ter lory it iti full bullof of the illustrious names or of social such while bile the brilliant have haie dropped into obscurity if the children as a rule are not enjoying their school work or some part of it they fare are not going into the realm of thought discovering new find wonderful things and wc es should hould pause and correct ourselves or our method I 1 or of change the subject taught if any one doubts what I 1 say let him listen A few minutes to the complaints complaint of I 1 a teacher who la Is trying to teach leach long di dillon ision or of long lo 10 a third or fourth v ear cur class clasa let lei him take 1 in hand band a dialls class of this grade u v ho bo can a easily I 1 y an manipulate the figures ond ard chat meters which bloh represent this abl process pro ces I 1 place objects upon their desks and ask thein to select one fourth of eight of 1110 objects and see how large a proportion of the class will rail fall to perform this operation correctly tile th children have hae been taught only tojos lo 10 juggle alli I 1 lit fl figures g IS res a if to if b bave a e no let kriol I 1 to lo in their own on experience IAL him to 10 the jules or w noe lie from I 1 jose teachers hers or of technical grammar anti arthru ct or a ralin and nl at ih s name annie time lime let him keep in finhill list disgusted worried or tol el I 1 HOUM attitude or the classes r course there are exceptions or so nc the school is in not lite only factor in the childs in a rare a re instances a child may be so an I 1 fi tot nothing bhora ora cyclone can bile inn into inlo activity I 1 lie to may become in title of tile the khoo 1 however hoAC fr infect 1 ll it may inny be but bill often a child automatic to io baboul an ah much in school As n lint or of praet leally ra noa 11 and ami no loss left if ten we tiny may be if ismore i alfred that vc me tire beginning to lu teach an we e ought might to lo tench teach when a child Is ida a good honest intelligent outside or of school but to be a 8 dullard fit school there Is ila surely sonic thing wrong either fall past or r present met holds the renson reason eliy hy training lit in teral lc relt ml life hie child and keeps hill in school is 11 not that it 11 as 11 manual training but hallsell c 11 begins with will ulius 1101 lite ilic child call understand unit do 10 lo ciul aall hid Ii q is a I 1 rill tit ilhan inu ach of otle le lury binl ilni ir if ne bilboat tra training inina us as me HC are ellout other chool thool w urk ark we I 1 of I 1 a hae no better file F r if me c should after letting lellin harn liam hain nice around awhile ali ile net act the child 11 to making a corn tint anil perfect liin or ir if ue tie should awake him learn to lo recite the names and of all tile palls perls of if sonic intricate inne hine without aiming iming hux iiii beef file ilcin or really knowing anything about t hem me c Kl nuil not be acting tiny more fool khlil than limn me ic ta now HLL in regard to lu other work in the itic school in one schoola second car class hall learned to lo udd and subtract figures very cry quickly but the hie children were ere struggling to read such words its and idoa dog anti cut tile m worda dill did not nol ideas to tine chilli ten anil and they bereno were now lo 10 remember to say certain certain sounds hounds when fact they saw certain word forms the figures they relied so glibly tit dil out ikenn acon numbers lint bul sounds bounds A called too and a culled called and a character called lit in a row rott and folio lullo cd bi to ivio al short tion lion lines imek canals should lc be fulli followed amed I 1 b u called lle live when lien the children mere to abom he or lle thing they pointed to tile hie figure 3 5 fit n another r lebond alir canid uc that lo 10 11 cup up oil to tile hie half pint mark kiili fill water for live lic cents morth orah and llian lo 10 put lit m inch note for ten ion cents morth mah ufah about nil all the children could be ard cc to do tan imagine lini inc tile alie fell folly ol of taking salting up oil of hundreds hundred 1 anti and thou handie and in ill ions with lih a filed or bourth ear class if our were more inore nearly liar tr ho thiet pupils points would have the consciousness of muster in R the bub anti sects Prec erected ted and also ahmo hmo h ii e tile house ot of e escape into that hint larger fail intel I 1 ILC just ill hiie and liberty und and joy m inell inight compensate for the of flint w aich they resign and ir if I 1 llie lie still mili joel matter as well as llie the Ine seviLa a of it more nearly brought out tile truth there Is if no doubt that ninny many more inore out stay in ill tile schools I 1 late lie not I 1 con cen many bos brought back into school und anti large numbers of the mcm both of cl et asses kept in fit school by moro more 1 if the love for discovering and mastering truth were more fostered und and deel pasil m title life child Is under control instead of his has faculties being do acred deadened arid and berat benumbed imbed bythe by alio process of crow crowding ling upu upon his attention lenion nl A bewildering litany of 0 fonar final symbols und and sounds bounds which aih represent ideas or quantities to him no unthinkable bankable bin kable lie would mould not to lo leave school until lie lias has completely mastered the field covered by the sel school local A D |