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Show NEW FIELD OPEN TO E. T. FAIRCHILD E. T. Fairchild, president of the National Educational association, and superintendent of education of the state of Kansas, has been tendered the presidency of New Hampshire Agricultural college. The practical benefits of education educa-tion have been emphasized by Mr. Fairchild in his work in Kansas. The conventional treatment of the sciences in the secondary schools waa objected to by Mr. Fairchild as un-suited un-suited to the pupil and to his actual needs when he got out of school. It Is his Idea that all text books, especially espe-cially In high schools, should follow the plan demanded by teachers of arithmetic that all the problems presented be of things that concern the active life of the child. "The present text books are for advanced work and are not practical," practi-cal," Mr. Fairchild said recently. "While the books are written for boys and girls of high school age, still they . v. N . X jfcwrfgr Ik are so technical and so full of definitions that often they are of no practical use to children after they are through school. "I believe there Is a real demand for textbook3 In botany that shall abandon, to a degree at least, the conventional treatment and that will use, as illustrative material, the plant life about us. It is possible to study with profit the trees, the flowers, the wheat, and to learn from them the great truths of the vegetable kingdom. "There is much practical knowledge to be gained in the physics, but in these too much stress is laid to the theories and not enough to the practical everyday propositions which come up around the farm or the home." |
