The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-14

RsspazedbyC c. l. Hood q Co. Iowsi1 Mass.
with the great commercial nations Tie
commercial products mean 80 much raw
material with brains and sabar added 20 IL,
that 10 TO say. intelligent labor. comprising
good taste. The knowledge of practical pur-
poses are embodied IN every product or
industry ard . nations Industrial power
- directly enhanced by public education
School education must take the adjustment
10 industrial conditions into consideration
when framing courses OF study, and IL must
lay stress on adjustment to thes4rracttcd
demands Of life. The adjustment OF en-
lions besides COMMERCIAL lie. With the
vast growth Of the nation and she pre-
ponderance OF Industrial life. political ana
economic problems arise which require sti.
part of the masses. Without general cd
ucatton cur government cannot exist.
Hence the necessity Of leading the child
~ years ago. to a knowledge OF history
and To an elementary acquaintance with
the social and commercial problems which.
~ least in part, geosrapny treats OF. ruD-
memory for facts OF instruction, but also
the child's common sense and Judgment
concerning the leading relations OF life
development OF thought. and to methods
OF instruction which lead children 10 rea-
son on given data and to form opinions on
s .ssy sa, e ME- er. .ras
OF these matters. but clear understanding
Of elementary political and social rela-
tons are germs which win grow and which
life Itself wiil deyelop as the child develops
into manhood and wornanhood.
Progressive xnovements In public educa-
ton have but too frequently taken the form
Sensa a' curriculum r I. does not seem as il
progress could be found in multiplying the
diversity Of studies. but rather in DEEPEN
Ing the few studies which have with good
Justice been embodied ia the public school
There 10 no better corrective In regard
TO this matter than public opinion. The
outcry against fads while m.edirected at
times against studiss az essential and bene-
fetal az drawing. IL nevertheless con-
slant adTnonitton to school boards and SUI
psrintsndents TO limit closely the number
successfully. and to seek progress rather
In the weil-rounded educational develop
ment OF Judgment. heart and hand than In
the erowalns OF the memory with the data
Great 1as The progress has been in the
economic and administrative features OF
public ,s The prngre ,..,9 made I'll,
greater. II may be truly sad that the
progress in the schooIroom itself and in
the method Of teaching has been directed
~ American. Schools all over the world
have been the outkrowth. and children
Of ages long past where the main purpose
than development Of the life force. The
character OF public education was schol-
assic. and II aimed at knowledge, rather
than Thought and action. This tendency
prevailed for centuries and made the
methods OF instruction tend toward the
more or less one-sided cultivation of the
memory. Schools were conducted on plans
OF the throng Of the busting world. and
whose life was chiefly one OF contemplation
and study. The ideal OF the schools OF old
en- ss u no. u nm WITH =, the ea
pie. Every pulsation of American life
makes for thoughtful purpose and action.
and away from merely contemplative rest.
Public education can have no grander
purpose than TO pulsate with the heart
throbs Of our people, and prepare for
thoughtful and energetic action and life.
Gohooo progress has been in the past
twenty years clearly in the direction Of ac-
ton. The kindergarten for the last twen-
~ years has demonstrated the value OF ed
nca,ing. childhood by doing. All methods
OF teaching In the common schools aim
more and more toward connecting knowi-
edge with life. and methods of teaching
with that free activity toward which both
the natural interests Of the child and the
genius OF our people tend
DIR. n. Murray Butler. OF Columbia uni
verstty. New York, followed with an inter-
tlon." and the session was closed by q. r.
Lem. state superintendent OF public in
struetion Of Georgia taking as his text
for q more than ordinarily interesting adj
dress on Some Phases Of Public Educa-
ton in the South.
Department of Music.
In the department OF music. a unique
sketch. The Necessary Education of tho
Supervisor, was offered by Mrs. c. B.
Smith. of Jacksonville, ILL.,, and Miss X.
f. Stone. OF Alameda. Cal. read paper
on What Shall Constitute Course in
Music for County Institutes"
A paper on the kindred subject. What
Should Constitute Course in Music for
Normal Schoois~' was also read by G.. C.
Young. Of Salt Lake. Utah.
Department Of business.
T.. .. crissy. of the University Of New
York, read a suggestive and very practi-
cation mi the department Ct business, and
in to traced business education from what
might be termed SIS beginning In the city
Of Ference. rs the fifteenth century.
Child study.
The session ~ the department Of child
study was exceptionally interesting today
Miss Isabella France. state normal school,
~. Cloud. Miss. teok for her text Chit
aYens Interest IN Nature
'sThe Adolescent at Home and Schoor'
was the theme selected by r. @. Iancas-
ter. Colorado Springs, Col. 20 enforce
some pertinent truths
Higher Education
The department ef higher education held
is meeting today In conjunction with Tire
department Of secondary education
College Entrance Requirements.
The committee appointed at Denver In
tsSS ~ prepare a report on college en-
trance requirements presented through
ur- A. +. Nightingale, sIpersnte ndens OF