The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-04
|AS OTHERS SEE Us
Minneapolis Schools asseen Through
the Eyes Of a Shanghai
Educator.
Schools Get Better, Says George Ian
ming, the Farther West
- He Comes.

John GoodnOw is a strong man and IS
a strong man makes friends as well as
enemies, you know. : said George Lannine
| of Shanghai yesterday Mr.. Lanning. is
head master OF the only public school in
Shanghai, and was spending a few hours
| in Minneapolis, departing this morning
While here he was in conference with Su
perintendent of Schools G. NJ Jordan. He
had letters of Introduction from Consul
General Goodnow. The vice consul Rev
>. K. Hykes OF PENNSYLVANIA, is chair
man of the educational committee of his
school. r~s H. 5./5 '.-@e,
Although native Of Staffordshire. Eng,
Mr. tanning feels that he is pra cticall
an American. The relations he has sls-
tanned in Shanghai for twenty seven years
have been largely with Americans. He
has great admiration for the American
women as being the most nearly perfect
mothers. ~ r. . 49,. .,ts- -
The first great war in the memory of Mr.
Lannlng. was the American Civil war
when he was eight years old. and his, f7rst
great hero was General Robert r. lee
Although his father was strong federal
he himself as a child imbibed confederate
Ideas from picture papers sent over by
an uncle In the south. D. F. -.-
The Minneapolis Schools r..
OF the Minneapolis schools Mr.. Lanning
said: - = - :. q
Il have been here too. short q time r.
dogmatize. T. have been here twenty
Jour hours, or more strictly spea king
twenty e1ght, but since landing in New
ork a short time ago I have noticed that
the farther west go the better 7 find the
scnoo!s: l have visited the Central high
school building, the East high sohcol and
the Sheridan grade school. The East
nlgh think has an extremely fine build
ing Well adapted to it's uses and. If seems
10 me- altogether as efficient for its mr.
poses as the $780, school in Philad elnhi.
ago. wv 0e'toi oas
The English people would not believe
ina mat women could manage a school of
eoo chlldren. such as I saw at the Sheri
den school, -, Wv o-io'
=. mere Is another thing in which be-
iieVe your readers would be Interested
tne relation of apparent to actual ages
VI English and American school chill
dren. The children look here to avera ga
=! !ntee years older than they are. Whether
1t is the dress or the facial exnressio,, +
don't know. I went into an advannad
class in shakspere day at the F,ast
n1sh school and made note of the ages as
from IL to 20. [ found the punils uyere
ABOUT II at the Oldest The pr.incinaI
MI. webster. said that the children in
England this summer impressed him the
o'i'Oi wa! l1ley seemed TO be some three
years younger than they were. Your
system of education does not force the
children educationally as much as the
British child is forced I should saw,
taking the average as l have seen them
that the American child came out on ton
as to superiority of intelligence, '~'
The Lanning school is supported partly
by fees and party by grants of the
Shanghai city council. No provision is
made in Shanghai by which the. children
can get free schooling except in the de-
nominational schools. The tanning school
has staff of fifteen teachers and has $50
children from kindergarten to high
school age The first child in a family
pays about 81 in gold a month. y ,
Admiration fer Roosevelt. IT,. :".st
OF President Roosevelt, Mr.. I AIMING
speaks highly. The president spoke at
the Philadelphia school dedication s,'If 7
should have met President Roosevelt for
hve minutes said Mr.. Lanning. f"I
should have told him that he had wasted
his life as president Of the United States.
lie should have been a school teacher r
judged this from his speech He laid
down the great principle Of scholastic
work, and. that is that the great point. in
school Is not the technical training which
is given, but the formation of charac-
ter"
Yesterdays snow was the heaviest Mr..
tanning had seen in twenty-eight years.
He had never before been in an Ameri-
can storm.