OCR Text |
Show I Mere Instilling of Book Knowledge Not First Principle of Education I By AGNEjyJOYSEN, Minneapolis School Principal. Educators are not satisfied with the work of many of our graduatec i Some of these boys and girls go out into the world and do not succeed j in fact, some are absolute failures. Emphasis must be placed on honesty rather than accuracy. th knowledge of how to serve rather than the acquiring of men informal top and the desire to serve rather than a certain number of 100 per ceni averages. , ,i Superintendents, principals, teachers and pupils must unite in thi w.omrnon interest- must sacrifice, if necessary, the old Jraditional standards of gaining much useless information. Academic subject mat ter may be the means to the end, but never the end in itself |