Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-27
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A Difference AMONG THE DOC.
TORS.
Division is the process of find
ing how many timts one number is
contained in another"
"The dividend and divisor must
always be of tie same denomina-
ton"
"The 'quotiert is always an alb
stract number" = Rays Higher
Arithmetic.
Division isthe process of separ-
ating a numbelinto equal parts"
" The dividend and quotient are
always like numbers. The divisol
must always b. regarded as an alb
stract number -Harper's Second
Book in Arithmetic.
Division is he process of finding
how many Tins one number is con.
tanned in another; or, it is the pro,
cess of finding one of the equal
parts of a NUMBER"
{" When diviion finds how many
times one number is contained il
another, the dvisor and dividend
are like numbess, and the quotient
is an abstract number. When divi
sion finds one Of the equal parts O
a number the tivisor is an abstract
number, and the dividend and quo
tient are like numbers. Whites
Complete Arithmetic.
Teachers can have their choice.
a correspondent of an eastern
paper, thus describes the training
at an asylum for the education o.
feeble minded children in the state
of New York. Teachers of youth
not thus afflicted may gather here
some idea of the patience, perse,
verance and ingenuity required in
some departments Of education.
This institution has been for years
under the management of DR.. H
B. Wilbur, to whose efforts it owes
its success:
1t was only the cher day that l visited
his home, containing about thirty incurables
few of whom could even walk presumably
Some of them Were in training to learn thai
they had feet and legs, and that those organs
were to be used ia certain way for locomo
ton. For this purpose ladder with broad
rungs was laid flat on the floor, aud they were
made to walk he length of it and bacl
again, stepping between the rungs, and having
to that end, to lift their feet well up. Others
were at desks, working at the board and rivet
apparatus Others again had reached the stage
of distinguishing dimensions and forms. This
they were taught by means of boards with
little holes cut in them of various sizes and
shapes, and blocks carved to fit the holes the
blocks would be mixed together and the
children left to do the fitting. Others were
learning to distinguish colors by the use of u
number of cups ald balls of different hues
the problem being 10 put into each cup the
ball which corresponds with it. Near by sal
a boy with shoe before him which he
was trying to lace; and so, throughout the
room, every child had some task to perform.
In another part of the building, at the same
time were group of girls working industri-
ously N sewing machines or cutting and
making gowns, shirls and ruffies, neatly as
two-thirds of their more favored sisters outside
Of institutions could do such work. Elsewhere
young men were seen braiding jute into
strands, while one youth who was both an
idiot and deaf mute, was making the braid
into handsome door mats for the trade. DIR.
wilbur tells me that about seventy per cent
of all the children sent to the asylum are ca
pable of being trained to the simpler forms OF
domestic, shop or farm work; while the most
that can be hoped for in the cases of the
thirty per cent. is such an i'm
provement in their personal habits as will
make them somewhat less of burden upon
the friends or guardians who are TO care fol-
them in later life
From the point where the child undergoing
DIR. Wilbur's system of tuition leaves the pri-
mary studies of size, form and colOr he passes
to the consideration OF pictures; and with the
pictures he is taught, little by little, to asso
ciate printed words; these, after a time. are
into their component letters; the
letters in turn he learns to translate into then
equivalent written characters, and form them
with his own hand, on the blackboard; and
thus, inch by inch. and ell by ell. he becomes
a writer, unless he reaches on the way the
limit nature has set irreyocably upon his ca
pabilities in the direction of scholarship.
Calisthenie exercises play a most important
part in tie scheme pursued at Geddes. March
ing and counter marching, forming hollow
squares and cross-shaped bodies, swinging
the dumb bells and dancing serve st once tc
entertain and instruct the little folk. The
first step is to implant in the child's mind
some conception of musical time. The simple
march in single file to sharply accentuated
air the piano usually accomplishes tht
after a shorter or longer period of trial, and
very often the child goes from one extreme
to the other, from absolutely ignoring tint
to stamping the feet and swsying the body
a few who have caught the idea it is desired
TO impart are sprinkled here and there through
the line of the " awkward squad and lend
whatever sympathetic aid they can. Progress:
is slow enough, Of course, in most cases, bu
it is fairly sure; and in illustration of wha
time and patience can accomplish, / have
seen dozens OF little couples waltzing togeiheI