The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-30

our country schools seoms 10 me tho
supcrlativo need In educational progress /
We have In Texas moro than 10000 rural
teachers. and the education OF more than
half our pupils IL limited TO the country
schools. After devoting four decades large
ly to rural achool Improvement. can
strongly recommend two fundamental
measures. 1. That each juatice's precinct
shall constitute a school district, and that
the teacher of the central school In each
district shall bo principal OF all the schools
In tho district. This briet sentence en-
acted into law would quadruple the emil
cheney OF our rural schools, and would be |
worth millions OF dollars annually TO |
Texas Even the angels could not make |
our country schools satisfactory IN the
absence of this or some similar law !
recommend the rural school department
to appoin, a committee on rural school
organization TO report at our next annual
meeting 9 I recommend the partial grad
Ing OF our rural schools OF ell schools,
our unpraded schools are least econom,
ical and least efficient Even partial grad
ing IL al, Immense gain recommend the
rural school department to appoint conf
mi,tcc to report plan for grading coun-
| try schools at our next meeting. WIN
competent country superutendens, with
district principals and with partial grading,
our rural schools VIII progress side by
sidc with our urban schools.
RETIREMENT or PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
child study has revolutionincd primary
| teaching, or all our school work. our
primary work is most satisfactory. we
are learning to enrich In experience the
| precious wears of tho little ones, In the
limo of pruyress, l will submit two recon-
mendations. /. That the kindergarten in
urban schools be made a part of the
NOR
kindergarten and primary department to
appolnt a committee to report plans Tor
\ securing this henctccnt adAncc. =. That
the nrst two years OF primary WORK be
made semi kindergarten. The transition
from the home TO the school VIII thus
he made wholesome and delightful. inc
KINDERGARTEN cmbodies the philosophy OF
education In 1915. Frocbel created the
embryo kindergarten; by 1915. the kinder
garton will have become co-extonsive with
the primary school.
RETIREMENT or OUR INTERMEDIATE
SCHOOLS.
We are now studying the boys and girls.
and we mud that radical change Is de-
handed In the management and methods
of our grammar schools. These schools
must be adapted To our intermediate pu-
pills. strongly recommend intermediate
specialization. II economics to the utmost
, teacher and pupil energies; 1t aecords win
I the worlds best educational thought ana
experiences; 1t easily triples the efficiency
, of our grammar schools l recommend
the intermediate department 10 appoint
! a committee of Ave progressive principais
to report plans for intermediate speciall.a
,ion at our next annual meeting Ih't
great forward educational movement de,
Al nta
. nat hurry Intermediate specialization VII
Z yeuuiro the transformation OF our schop
buildings and the training OF an army o.
A intermediate epocialities But whiae bene'
: Acen, reform IL passing through the ordeai'
Of ridcuIe aud argument, realization VIII
disarm onpos,tion. I do not doubt that II
a "A decade or two intermediate specialization
will b,come general The graded grammar
school has worked out satisfactorily TN
a problems of organization ana prono,ion
- The specialized intermediates school ~
higher evolution and vs. destined 10 soiv
@ the problems OF enirient h,ern me- ,h
:, school work II is believed that all tn
:, objections 10 this advance that have beei
. urged or can be urged will disappear II
). view of tho immense gains.
Il RETIREMENT or OUR SECoNpAh'
7 SCHOOLS.
d Our 800 public and private secohoaf'
: schools are pur pride. In these SCHOOLS
= wise high school specialization is wofh''
ia wonders our high school graduates ar
- NOW far better prepared for life than III
college graduates of half century ago
'. The high school is rapidly becoming ID
d finishing school for the masses III o."
Ia t,mes when tho work of the world is
n thing of brains, the culture OF lhe hie
sphool IA an economic necessity. How ma
" uur high schools be made more ana inui