Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29
EDUCATIONAL.
CD. BELDEN. EDITOR.

Brownsville Village schools commence
Monday. Sept. II
Miss Mary 4. Til,on, OF Brownsville,
has gone to Stearns county to teach.
Miss Eva Chandler left last week to
teach five months term near Fergus
Falls, MINI.
Miss Adaie Cole. of Grand Meadow,
and Miss Kate Hartje. of Marshall, are
attending the Austin High school.
Anderson G. Adams. who taught in
the Tanner district. Red Rock, some
years ago, is engaged to teach the Dex-
ter village school, commencing Sept. g.
Public examination for teachers will
be held in the Court room. Austin, Tues
day morning, Sept. 10, and at Browns
dale, Friday morning, Sept. IA. All
concerned will take due notice.
Alice Sutton and Rosetta Lacy, of
Rose Creek. and Addle Cook, of Austin,
are among those from this county who
will attend Winona Normal School dur
ing the coming year.
DECLARATION OF BELIEF.
The industrial association of New York
city has found IT expedient to issue a de-
claraticn OF what it believes to be true
educational doctline.
The association holds that
l. The complete development of all
the faculties can be reached only through
a system of education which combines
the training found in the usual course of
study with the elements of manual train
ing. q.
II. The current system trains the men,
DRY too largely, the reasoning powers less
the eye and the hand too little.
III. Industrial training to have it's
fullest value must be an integral part of
general education. While valuable IN
some measure alone, it is alone little bet.
ter than manual training as leading to the
learning OF trades.
w. 1t IS not the aim of manual train
ing to teach trades. That boys and girls,
will, if educated according to the system
which it advocates. be better able to take
up the study of any particular trade. it
recognizes as one of the results of the
faculties which it holds to be the essen
tial aim of the system.
V. The fact is generally recognized
among those best informed on the subject
OF education that the kindergarten sys-
tenn produces the best results with young
children. The association claims that the
system which combines industrial train
ing With the usual and necessary branches
IS nothing more than development of
the kindergarten theory; system found
wise for young children, modified and
adapted to children of more mature
growth.
vi. As children, wherever found, DOS
sess the same faculties and develop the
same characteristics, this system should
be introduced into all classes and grades
of schools, the private as well as the pub
lie school, and not alone in the primary
public schools, but in all those of more
advanced grades.
VII. This system tends to the develop.
ment of certain moral qualities as we'll as
to the development of the intellectual
faculties.
VII. The various occupations which
are by this system gwen to- the children,
render study less irksome than any sys-
tenn can in which the exercise of the
faculty Of memory IS alone involved.
TX. There exists in this country WIDE
spread disiuclination for manual labor
which the present school system seems
powerless to overcome. There is wide
range of occupations which our boys and
girls might with advantage enter were it
not that they are prevented from doing
so by a false view Of the dignity of labor,
One of the results Of this system of edu-
cation will be to destroy prejudice
which in measure arises from a want
of familiarity with hand work
4. The first and last object Of the as
ISOLATION, the main reason for its exist
ence, is the creation of public interest
in this system and public belief in its
value.