The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-08

AalNA A-At1 AAAtNA ava lAAN 800 AN-ssss-
superintendent Of the public schools Of
this ely, Ia an interview yesterday re-
fused to admit that there are any
.'fsdg' In his system Of public educa-
tion. BE pointed 70 the fact that IN the.
schools of washington German Is not
taught below the high school grades,
and that the extra expense for that
study. is extremely small.
Good Schools and ECONOMY.
.'From my point Of view" he said,
ethe city q washington or the city Of
Chicago or any other city can AFFORD to
do thoiright thing BY its children. MI
nicipal funds cannot be spent more
economically than In educating the
children properly.
tAfany OF the so-Calted fads are bu.
instrumentalltieB introduced TO supply
that which q lacking in the chld's
home. those activities incident to home
iife whose best ehscts are seen and felt
In pioneer living. where the child Is
made to DO numerous things for sup
porting and caring for the family. The
old-fashioned school about which 30
much Is. said was useful for the reason
that It supplemented what was done at
home, work which gave him power to
do. The country school Of the old days
did not develop much ability in the
child; and be get his power IN the ac-
tiyities incident TO the simpler life Of
those days when there was little ma
chinery with which to do things.
Instances Of Changed Conditions.
"The farmer Of those days went to
mill or sent his boy. To-day he sends
his wheat to the railroad station and
buys his fiour in town. In former days
the farmers boy did chores, churned
and marketed eggs and butter Now
the farmer sells his milk by the pound
at creameries and buys his butter, A
thousand illustrations like this might
be given that apply to village as well
asto country life,
aFads" Eft New Activity.
'The so.called fads' in the hands Of
an intelligent teacher make good the
loss brought about by our advancing
civilization, by the rnassing Of people in
cities The formal school of the olden
time win not educate adequately to-
day. The so.called lads are .fads only
when they are super-lmp osed-that Is,
when the old-fashioned reading, SPELL
ing and writing are retained and the
fads. so-called. simply added. But
when the latter become the means by
which the child gains. through expert
ence. the knowledge we want him to
get, and obtains a training Of hand and
eye which our simpler civilization used
to give the child. they are no longer
fads, but are become instrumentalitIes
for doing for the child that by which
this civilization, Of which he is part,
was developed.
Must Avoid Drudgsry.
''The broader the experience of the
child and the richer each item Of exper-
Hence, the more readily will he learn to
read and write the words and sentences
representing his experience; and the
more delightfully."- win he enter into the
learning OF such words and forms.
Without this experience the learning Of
forms will be a drpdgery to him and
that, in school, creates . dislike for the
institution.
Drawing Is a means Of expression as
wen as talking, and Is as delightful to
the child. II this is used for the express
sion Of what the pupil learns through
experience with things and processes. it
becomes. the richest and most valuable
work in manual training. His eye and
hand are trained in representing what
he sees and does. and does at time OF
life when manual training Is more val
liable to him than the same amount OF
shop-work ever could be later in life.
way to Full Development.
The land and eye correlating with
the brain in knowing and representing
at the time the most plastic in the
chiId's life, educate the motor side cor
respondlngly with the receptive side
and develops the child of action as we'll
as the pupil of receptlvity. Super
imposed manual training is OF little
worth compared with the correlatlve
work OF primary schools. The child that
learns to read by processes Of activity
involving hand and eye viii read in
lines of knowledge that will make his
acquisitions safe to himself and safe to
society. The school that will teach tho