The American guide., 1896-03-28
EDUCATIONALtCOLUMN.
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PROF. EDWIN 2 yttORNe.

School Journal, 70 ,fied person
who has taught so lo Ne knows
all about it. There s-ne teachers
who are giving thu ears class the
same dose they gave ke last years
class and the one b kv and the one
before that. Such . fscher must col
lect Il new supply - as. sug estions
| and devices.
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Teaching Is a pr wsion, and the
teacher who is teas " .'just like
was taught 30 years 70 l., not only
not up with the tin but is doing
harmful work.
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Men are paying n ~h attention to
the study and breedii VI dogs, horses
and hogs. but less isl eva about the
child, and less atte4 given to his
care than anything We have
| heard of people ten who have
never read . rsych" md II one
should mention paid TO them they
would stand aghast.
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Paidology is merel, hild study, and
all the large colleges 4sve courses now
in the new psychol, (SThe child is
the most important sct on earth for
our study. His heal. his growth, his
mental devclopmen' - worth more
than fast horses, 4. dogs and fat
swine.
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! say we must STU ie child. We
ought earnestly an, instantly en-.
deavor to help him Nv the subjects
taught. We ought train him. not
only to learn the LEI " o1>lened, but
to teach him to thin .yelp him make
what he learns his"
Yes, the love Of for the sake OF
knowledge; the Of the child to
learn how to teach child, Is the Inn
perative duty ofe schrr.
A certain mel school board
recently said; ''N st have profess
sionally-trained t <with basis
OF broad scholars, ,ivA6xnow how to
teach and know ho q inspifr Others
with teaching ~ ~
What is the>ase OF - qsyithmetic
so diflicult?> A%
There are only ~ses 10 per-
centage The y ste per
cent cent. given 'sl
second, b..
fnd rate
fouL per
cent to 30 per
cent is tn .c adding
Of the given at. to or sub
tracing II frr r cent, as the
case may be, Is, s,eration of per-
ccntare. but is,snlpl adding or sub.
tracing of numbers ow, this is just
what Whites rithm5 ic tells the
teacher. yet moS persis in teaching
fourth and fifthtase, Peach your chill.
dren that ,hereArefhly three cases in
percentage.
Suppose youItry b think about per.
ccntage and J.; 4 fiddle things In
percentage tn stana Hard unit Of refer
ence is 100 VT in i'he process of com
putting by tn hand red, for convenience
we usc as u rcpreentative. wegive
two problem6llustr rating the fallacy Of
calling ccrtai nuu bers amount" ard
difference.
Ten yeas ago Little Rock had
population ! 20, ,27s land has increased
20 per cen What Is the population
now?'
II 100 rcrcsents population ten years
ago. 100 MS aOfcprcscnts the popula-
tion now. IThcreforc, the population
| now is ieo1 1bo OF 90, ,375 - 81 $50.
This a6,ts is a percentage OF the
base, and he new rate IL liz, and II is
the pcrcc%agc and rate given to find
base, or b -ptr
Again; "a own after decreasing II
per cent. has i.sse inhabitants Find
the number a, first
100 represents the number at first and
the number now k represented by
ioo-ii.-se. Therefore, the population
at first was po-ss Of 4,sso s,ioo, or 80
rate per cent, 4,sSe the percentage, and
these two gSen to ind the base.
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Now, this is no new method, but the
''old thing taugh, as II was intended
To be Taught We make arithmetic
hard by auditing and confusing sim'
pie thinsH Major Isarham insists that
arithmetic is an casy subject, both to
learn and to teach.
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Last week I gave Ave problems, and
this week we print the answers, Get
last weeks paper, compare your an
swers wth these Ths answers are to
the iir.l, hr. 70 miu, second, $1,000;
third, % feet; fourth, ,ei.7S, fifth, sisa.so
income AT the request Of two teach.
ers, who mailed ansysrs, we give below
the sclution IA the hfth and first prob
lens;
10 tiio IN the cost Of 800 stock,
Hence, st,b&5.7o equals cost Of s4'o'o.7o
divided by i.1o, equals s3,sios1; then
.oi of ss,siss7 cqual& sisa.so nearly
% To tho Hrst-1Reduce the time
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