Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
THE NECESSITY FOR ART IN PUB
Lie EDUCATION.

Cora Z. PARSONS ART teAchct TOT Afdh6
Education Company,
For-what are we striving in our great
work oil public education? You will
know all agree that il is for the deyel-
0pmeuJ of the best and noblest in the
pupils. SO training their faculties that
they viii have the character and abili-
ty 20 become good, industrious law
abiding citizens.
lis no longer disputed that the mere
Importing OF facts is not education, but
that 10 educate is TO awaken and guide
i'm free growth all the powers of mind
and body
C0meuus said nearly three hundred
years ago. sit is a fundamental error,
TO begin with language and end with
THINGS for things are the substance,
the body. and words but the accident
on Dress pestalOzZi, the father of
modern education, building upon the
thoughts of COmerius said, The powers
must be developed tremendously, all
I true development manifests itself IN
| self-actVity. IT remained for FIRE.
/ derrick FrOcbol, the man who had the
honor OF being called, the discoyerer of
childhood 10 formulate a system that
would bring The child into sympathy
with his environments. and to devise
means whereby he might express him.
self by doing. realizing that the whole
education of man came through his
SELF activities conferred upon natural
things. Recognizing that the whole
education of man would not be accom-
plsled until his creative and asthetic
I faculties We're developed, the leading
/ educators have come TO consider Art
Education part OF general education.
/ This work was at first undertaken from
an industrial point of view,-using the
South NeuSiugtOn methods introduced
/ lu America by men much Interested in
/ the public education OF our time. Most
/ of the work was from fiat copy drawing,
/ principally design. 10 soon became
/ apparent that It's broadcast side was not
/ the industrial side, nor was mere nat
I CODY drawing art education. but that
. If Art Education was TO develop
/ the creative and aesthetic faculties, 1t
T must comprise industrial or construct
/ lve drawing. representation or pictorial
drawing. and decoration under this
/ latter head must of course, come the
study of the Art OF all ages through
Itheir examples OF architecture and or
uameut
Taking as their guide in this matter,
/ The principles OF FrOoDle infusing IN
/ Go them Jhe art spirit. and adapting
/ them 20 all grades and conditions OF
/ public schoo, work; those best qualified
/ to- judge. decided that Form Study,
I Drawing and Color" was the best
. method of reaching the desired results
1.-THE development of the creative. lm-
. og.u3tiyo and spiritual nature OF the
/ child bringing him i'm closer relation
with his environments. guiding him TO
see and express their beauty.
If Che child was TO study beauty or
form. it must have ideals of perfect
form. from which to gain knowledge.
The sphere, cube cylinder with their
/ notifications. the hemisphere, Ovoid,
Ieuius0iJ. cone and pyramid were found
t0 best express the unity of Gods Gre
iations and mans construction. Add to
these symbols the type c0lOrs and we
have tine means by which we may ac-
c0upIsh our aims.
Looking to nature for the antelope Of
/ these forms I'm the sphere-we find the
/ heavenly bodies portrayed in the cubic
1.-THE type OF strength and sOlidity-we
iud some of the forms OF the mineral
/ Kingdom. The cyliudcr-the media-
t0u of The sphere and cube, and the
| type of growth.-is found in tree
trunks. grasses and stems. Fruits,
such as apples. oranges, peaches and
.uUs are spherical; plUms, lemons, mel
Icu7 and potatoes are elliptical; pears
Ialg oval: The roots OF plants are like the
icone-seeds also show the type forms
The same geometric plan appears in
c~oWth-the fern is o triangle, the
/ horse chestnut leaves an oval, punches
LOT grapes are coniCal. In the mineral
kingdom. hills and mountains of vary
iu- proportions are like the cone; rock,
Is-me and crystal have geometric ba-
ISIS
In the animal kingdom, these forms
again appear, and are portrayed by
I fish. fowl. bird. insect and animal.
The bird builds her nest like the
hemisphere, and the bee his cell like
Itle hezagon.
Everywhere I'm nature we find the
Is9mc sl0Ty-varioty at the surface, uni-
|ty at the centre.
Man also followed the same plan Of
the universe i'm his construction, from
1.-The time whom the lndian built his wig
IVAN iu the form OF a cone, the Egyp-
titan the resting places for their kings
like pyramids, TO the time when the
/ White Cityt was the embodiment Of
beauty aadvarietv, of cylinder, prism
land hemisphere dome
Industry furnishes many examples of
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boiler TO the nut constructed on The
/ hcEagou, from the rudely constructed
/ hemispbor.cJl bowl TO the beautiful
/ Greek vase FORM
/ God and man have created upon these
TYPES form. and God gave US a reason
/ toi studying the ideals in type, when
Tile gave To- us the perfect man for our
ideal man. Can we DO better then than
I 90 study the types upon VIII N he has
patterned .he whole REIN of creation,
and man has been accepting for ages
las Ideals oil beauty. leading tEe child a.
appreciate their beauty, AMI in the de-
Ncloueueri of his creative .lcu:ty, en-
liable hin, I'd produce new beauty.
tu Psychologists agree in the iII-
uortaaCe OF the sense on tCici as an cd
ueat0r I'm the arrangement for the
Ieudv cf form there should be provided
sufficient number OF models anG objects
Ithat ,ha ~apil may gain Nd >ledc' o.
form through Jhe handling. as we'll as
/ through the eye.
/ The study OF form and color should
produce thought and growth, hut this
is incomplete without expression. Care
/ should Dc used that the freest possible