Show the A C U to ivo national authorities open education haie bale severely condemned the me methods thoas of teaching in the country schools in lectures to the summer school of the A C U thelsa educators are dr H S curtiss director of the play ground movement in an Arr anca erica and professor E C bishop director of nature study in the state driows of iowa thess these eminent educators are members of the faculty of the A C U during the summer bummer dr curtiss condemned our worship of the thice Rs and maintained that the in most ost anital ital thing in child education was unrestrained muscular movement with a minimum of in door book work bishop maint lined fined that any system of adulation edu Lation which omitted agriculture was as wrung and roust must be remedied he maintained that thi most important study for the child wats waa agriculture his talk was in reality a severe condemnation of alres resent methods of instruction in utah and both educators erected with croN crowded ded houses and their lectured are causing considerable discussion among the teachers of tho the state assembled here the above is sent out by the A C U in an effort to awaken an interest in greater efficiency among the farmers there can be ba no question all aa to the value of the course and it is being developed in all the high schools of the state th the proposition of unrestrained muscular movement with a minimum of indoor book work is not a new one but it loses none of its force by being repented ted recent in new york city a i summer school haa beer been established in the public schools and th these se are thronged thron ged by boys and girls manual training is tile the only thing thine taught in the public schools and these are thronged thron ged by boys and girls eirls th the boys bole arl are taught trades and the girls get domestic science work and not a book is 13 placed in the hands of the pupils we hale hae agriculture now and we hope the dal da is not fir far distant when we will have manual training train ingin on all our high schools |