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Show Shall We Look Into the Future? As members of this community it is our duty to investigate and further furth-er the cause of all educational programs. pro-grams. Are we acquainted with the capable system now established in the State Training School? Is it only to be considered as an institution institu-tion to be walked through and gazed upon? Perhaps in a way we recognize the difficulty that rested upon the shoulders of some of our" towns people peo-ple in first obtaining the school but our responsibility goes further than that. The school is not yet completed complet-ed and if it is to best accomodate all we must still do our part. Being a member of a group privi-lidged privi-lidged to attend a clinic held recently recent-ly at the Training School, I was amazed at the lack of understanding we as a group had as to its organization. organiza-tion. At a lecture given previously by Dr. H. H. Ramsay, we were prepared pre-pared to some extent to understand more fully our visit. The clinic in its self was an education. edu-cation. Types of children were presented to illustrate the different levels of intelligence. The keynote of the clinic was: That the school only asks the child to learn according ac-cording to the level of his intelligence intelli-gence and in this way keeps him busy and happy. Students, all would admire, were allowed to illustrate a definite capability cap-ability in some one thing. Through arrangement of brain cells the child had developed a talent. One a musical musi-cal subject, although slow in other instances, could sit for hours lapsing from one tune to another playing by ear. j Another child, a spelling protege, could, with little practice, spell words exceedingly difficult, and after could recall the words she had misspelled. From observation we could see that the" work in the school meant a plan of progress for the slow, misunderstood misunder-stood child. When completed it should give to the retarded child a chance to learn the fundamentals such as reading, writing, etc., without with-out the difficulty of trying to keep up to a grade. To the child there, it will mean a chance to make a living liv-ing with his hands and a place in community life. At present the school system is being retarded by the State having no institution for the most unfortunate, unfortu-nate, those who will never learn at all. Can we not further the fine beginning of the school executives by supporting them in their plan to obtain ob-tain another school elsewhere, to take care of the unprogressive child, and working here with only those who can in time benefit by careful training. Mrs. Violet Peters, President of Junior Literary League. o |
