The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-19
TEgCHEBS OF ST. PgUL SCHOOLS
Pedagogues Themselves Are Now Taking
Part in Shaping Educational Policy

| the Douglass school, has worked during
| the summer vacations in the Chicago
university, and has brought back to the
public which she serves, what can be
| gained from that great center Of knoWl-
edge and light.
| She writes the following interesting
| account Of the work there:
The Chicago university and the Columbian
| exposition mark the four hundreth anniver-
sary Of the. coming of civilization to this
| Western land. The influence Of both IN ever
widening cycles down the ages is immeas-
| urable.
| dowed by it's founders. spending nothing on
| buildings. everything on professors and equip
| ment, has secured body of teachers who
influence inspire and dominate their age,
| their contemporaries and posterity."
The university year is divided into four
| terms of tweve weeks each-beginning Jan.
/, April 1, July /, Oct. l. Each term is d.
vded into courses of six weeks each. Teach
ers taking work at the university during the
summer may take six, eight or ten weeks.
and secure credit for work done, If working
for degree.
These summer courses are offered in twen-
ty-seven different departments. Those OF spe-
cial interest to q large body OF teachers are
pedagogy, psychology. sociology, history lit
erary science, mathematics.
DR.. Harper would inspire an ordinary NOR
tai to do extraordinary things from hearing
Dr. Dewey is head professor of philosophy
and pedagogy. Your views may differ from
lines of knowledge. into his hands and Is
driving the car Of progress over new and
difficult roads at a triumphal rate OF speed.
Associated with him are Prof. c. A. INGENUITY,
Prof. Davis, Prof. Tufts, Prof. Angel, Prof
huxley, Supt- Kingsley. Mr.. A. w. Moore,
Mr.. Nancy.
In connection with the pedagogical depart
ment model and experimental schools are
maintained. The summer Of SO the pupils
in the model school ranged from six to ten
years. The beginners took Longfellow's
that
for the understanding of children The first
day the teacher read to the children, Geo
graphy, history, science, reading, writ ng.
numbers, painting. drawing. modelling sew
ing, cutting, centered about this poem. The
proximity of Lake Michigan, Jackson park,
containing the Field museum and Washing
ton park enabled the teacher to have the
little ones observe the greater number of
things mentioned in the poem. At the close
able number of words, and read promptly
and naturally sentences from the blackboard,
giving the main facts in the story. The
teacher was as unusual as the pan and
methods.
The experimental school is so unique that
the practices in 1t would not be applicable
paper to explain its workings and principles.
DR.. Dewey Unsuitable in his hunger for ex-
perience to benefit, furthers this experiment
for more light on educatonal problems.
The enthusiasm in this department will
carry you into that other prop of pedagogy
sociology. There you will meet DR.. Small.
unlnLGlilSlDIlty
you will find on close examination that you
believe as he does that "every point in every
man s life Is related to every point in every
other mans life Assisting in the work are
Prof Henderson, Prof. Zueblin, Prof Starr
Thomas, and Mr.. Henry w. Thurston- You
can't study in these departments and remain
come an investigator of past experience and
present conditions in order to aid in the
greatest work in the wor,d-the fitting Of
man for complete living.
History 10 g.,
ply tells US what man has done at any particu-
| lar time and does not make clear what he
has been. 1t Is not as doer CT de: DIS we
are interested in the part Of man, but What
knowledge and development came to him as
result of his deeds Poetry often tells mora
Of the character and life of the race which
produced it than the most trustworthy his
tory.
OF the twenty-four professors in the related
departments Of history and literature among
whom are Profs. Judson. Terry. MacClintock
Grove, it Is impossible to speak in this short
note Of men who discern the highest and fin
est possibilities of life. who Interpret the
ton to advance our mysterious and many
/ sided spirits in attaining self-knowledge and
self-development 49,
Hamilton Mabie writes: s'The training and
development of the human mind have Ge-
pended SO largely upon nature that no man can
pretended his own being who has failed to
come into conscious relation with this great
est of teachers '-4-'
nc university eVlQ6ntly agrees with the
author Of the above as it offers cvsr fifty
courses in the sciences
Besides the regular courses offered. a serf 8
J. of free lectures Of exceptional merit are given
on afternoons or evenings, so that if YOU 90
to study your favorite subject, you may be
able to take lively interest in many sub
1ects through the masterful presentation by
experts of the latest and most universal
phases of their subjects -~=F'
This school of research secures for the
summer quarter men of attachments from
other institutions Of learning in different
parts of the world From Harvard and L.
land Stanford to the traditional halls of learn
ing of England. Germany and France
For the fortunate teacher able to meet ex-
penses, the summer school is a period of
growth. of intellectual compan:onsh.p : a
place to come into relation with things which
can nourish and the forces which can in
spire them to work out their lives with III
teli1gence, foresight and resolute adjust
ment to the best conditions, and lift their
work to plane where its influence will radi-
ate new energy to other lives.