El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-17
PRESIDENT WINSTON
m@sr Profitable Talk With the Board
of Education.

Texss W iversity, at the office OF DE-. &
Z. Race. preside Of the b. ard. They
all bad a very enjoyable me e ing, and
he board took the opportunity to ask
the noted educator what conclus ions
ne had formed about the local SCI Ools.
DR. Winston coupiime nted tse schools
very high ly, and stated that with two
minor eXcf pSiOns Re thought the
;hools con- pared favorably with the
schools in any ii V he had ever seen.
The two suggest ions / e la to make as
to the Ell Pasu :, hool system, we're
another teacher f. the high school,
aid separate high school bull ding
The doctor was asked wi a. his opl"lOn
was as to the kindergarten work OF ne
schools, in view OF TIE fact that Ell
Paso bad the only public kind rig ar, en-
in the ate, an innovation upon the
school system, aud whether or not he
thought the b. ard were de-
ing right IN main aiming the
kindergarten part of the school
system. He replied that he had given
tn matter special attention because OF
the novelty in state educational wrk,
and he was so gratited at the results
he bad seen that he INTENDED to re-
commend to that all Otner cities of the
st ate that could in any way support d
kindere "a ten, that they should sdd one
to their schools. An educ nlOnel
feature, especially in the education OF
morals to children OF That age, 1t is un-
surpass ed. There are many poor chill
drer who in this way get their only
glimpse of regiment and kindness and
other moral qualiti such as punctuall-
ty, Industry: that 1t is economy in
city to go to this expense 9nt that in
the future it will undoub edIy make
saving in the pol &c bills. You have
d very intelligen5 lady at tie head OF
your depar meu ,;th e dec or said; land
[ admired very much tn manner in
which she co Quoted htr school. She
j. doing WI nde fnl work, and you
viii do well to sustain her in it. An
other featu~r f YOUR scbooi work that
| much sd --ie. is your musical depart
ment. 1t is surprising with what "a
small expenditure of money how much
culture this branch of the work is
spreading into your community"
The doctor waS asked whether he
thought it was wiser to maintain high
school to fit the graduates for the uni
versitv, or whett err it would be better
to broaden the scope OF the work, and
give more liberal education to the
majority who can not and do not iute nd
to attend the university. He said that
h believed that when the scho ;lS-nOt
only of America. but of all cbristendOm
have 80 eed upon this point. that they
can not be far of No. only the school
system of the world, but also the edu-
catio il Committee If Ten agree that
there should be DO difference in the
training of a child, whether be attend
| school one year or fourteen years, CT
goes through full university course.
| The purpose of the school system is less
| to impart knowledge than it is to give
correc CT methods of think rig. The doc
tor said, b. way of illustrat on, thai if
a parent could forek no " that one of bis
childre1 wai to live for only ten years,
AID the other should grow to be an Cd
man, that parent would make no
his child, learning beth the
same way of walking, talking
and the other ha bits Of life, an it VS.
on the same principle that educators
acted. The doct r was asked his OPT
II ION as to wheth er the school systems
were getting e most cut of the chill
dren. AID wh=tner it would not b b IT.
ter to make q chi TO devote Its whole
| time and ait ntitn to one study at a
time instead of taking four or five
studies and giving a child q mere
smattering of knowledge, an illus'ra-
ton beng gwen of a bright girl who
h I'd TO prepare studies of some length
in four or five bran ;hes, and WHO az
tually came INTO her class with correct
| lessons. But it was the result of the
| force of memory aths T han the actual
knowledge Of the subject. The doctor
said tn 1t al children's minds re i'm
IL at ire, "a it must not be expecte d
tha child could fully master a sub
ject as it went for it. The prime point
"as the training OF the mind.
| With = we'll ira ned mi Id !,
knowledge Of fact would afterwards
be acquired. 1t WIS well proven
by history and statistics that child
Wi h thorough set DOL training had
much the best in the competition of
life with tho of no school training:
and be ted several examples. He Sc id
| he did no, know that the be It use of
he childreu's time was IN tde with the
| p~e-ent course of study. For instance,
his own OPT MON would be that geogra-
| ply 81 GU d be taken up at later date,
and Latin be introduced as e,rly a. the
| fifth grade. But he said it was pretty
safe to rely on the experience Of ages,
and he would be SOW in making ra0i al
| innovations.
Do r Winston said one of the i'm
pOrtant branches of education need ID
in the south was manual trairing. But
do mt exp r,meLt with it in your
| schools. Wait until you can get ready,
and then employ a competent man.
| The success of New England in this
direction should be emula;e1 by the
pc Ople of Texas.
In closing, DR.. Winston said he was
| very pleased with what he had seen in
| the schools, ami would endeavOr here
after to visit our schools as often as
| once year. DR.. Winston left for
| Houston on yesterday after Moons G.
| H.