Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-21
TRAINING BOYS MINDS.
EXPERIMENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR
ETHICAL CULTURE.

SO Think, Observe and Clearly Express
Themselyes-A Unique school and It's
Methods OF instruction.
The workingman's school is especially
intended TO serve the needs Of the chill
dren Of the poor. Little ones from the
tenement house districts are admitted to
Its free kindergarten at years Of age.
They 20 from the kindergarten at into
the school proper. which carries ont
Froebel's creative method on a higher
plane and with a greater minuteness OF
detail The pupils continue in the school
until their fourteenth year. Thereafter
the instruction is TO be continued in a
series Of evening classes Felix Adler,
the earnest ethical preacher, tits origin
ator The school is carried on in accord
ance with the principles which form the
basis OF his philosophy, which teaches
It's followers ''to d. right fer rights
sake without expecting a reward.
The school building is so spacious,
well lighted and cheerful, and the teach
Ing so intelligent, progressive and inter-
estirsg that the children Of the rich might
envy the advantages offered 10 the off
spring Of the poor. Here is o glimpse Of
the way they teach; This room happened
into is the one in which natural his
tory is taught Perhaps it is the big
windows and high ceilings that have
much to do with the brightness Of the
room, or il may be the cheerful faces Of
the forty busy children that gives the
place an exceedingly attractive air.
Zach child has q wasp on his desk be-
hides his pencil and notebook, All are
alertly attentive aud actively interested.
The subject under discussion is the pa
per making wasp and each eager young
ster Is trying 10 find out rs much az ever
he can from actual investigation The
teacher is firing their enthusiasm by
adroit questions That provoke inquiry
and stimulate curiosity
METHOD or INSTRUCTION..
He has sl,etched an enlarged head OF
q wasp on the blackboard He has told
them-but in such a wisely suggestive
way that they think they have found II
out themselves that "the paper max
ing wasp has three simple eyes and one
compound eye, and that in the com
pound eye are 5000 little microscopic
eyes The teacher says az he dismisses
the subject Of the wasp's eyes, Perhaps
next lesson you may find out what the
wasp does with its simple and compound
eyes The class looked as If they were
sure they would
"Now," he continued, 1--WE have learn
oil certain things about this wasp this
morning, let us write about it. What
shall we namc the story he Queried.
"The story of the Paper Making Wasp"
piped ont small boy in answer. The
title was thus written on the blackboard
and in the notebooks. "Who has any
thing 10 say about it?' was the next
question Everybody evidently from
the number Of hands eagerly appraised
One boy was asked what he had 60 say,
He responded with alacrity, It's body
amt so very long THAT does not
count for anything answered the
teacher with quick dTectness. Cant
you mcasurc| The boy was intelligent
enough to understand how vague and
meaningless his answer was: so were his
classmates who were aching 20 tell; but
the first boy measured his wasp, and
gave an accurate and clearly expressed
answer By dint of lively, kcculy dis
eliminating questioning a story was
written ab.lt the wasp. which read as
follows;
"Tho paper making wasp is about one
half am inch in length, Its body is made
up Of rings, The wasp has three di-
visions 20 its body Jhe head, thoraN
and abdomen The wasp has a small
joint which keeps the thorux and ahdo-
men together It's body is fun of hair,
AIM or THE FOUNDER,
As many OF the pupils come from the
tenement house districts they have had
no opportunity TO get impressions of ma
ture. and are unfamiliar with many
simple things that country bred child
imh.oes with his breath This need has
been provided for In the picturesque
little village of Sherman. IN Pennsyl-
wanna, provisions have been made for q
vacation colony for the school. Ihither
almost all the pupils go in charge Of the
principal. and spend the summer months
in The woods and among the hills, gain
ing health while they are storing away
knowledge to be used in their winter
studies,
The founder Of the school has formu-
lated q series of workshop lessons, based
on mechanical and free hand drawing.
His aim is TO educate the mind first that
1t may direct the hand Alright For in
stance. "a pup.lreceIyes Il model ola cone
FROM which he takes measurements and
then makes complete working draw
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