Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-14
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they encircle the globe. They are come
to America to stay. In 1878 there We're
1853 in America; in 1887 there were over
10000 To-day it is said there are half
a million.
These train children both to be happy
arid to make others happy. They keep
the streams along the avenues of re-
ceiving and giving busy: They simply
turn the childs desire for play into a
mighty educational force. We must
awake in old Virginia and work for the
future generation Inc men Of to-mor-
row are the boys of to-day. Take on new
life, YOU educators of an age that is gone.
Get ready. for the children are COM
ing with these new demands The kin
TEACHES AS IT PLAYS.
1t teaches as it PLAYS the develop
!nent Of all our powers. and If not taught
developed. In education the mistakes OF
the past the future can never correct.
We as educators have made mistakes
enough Let US start rignt, right now.
Don't make the mistake that many are
now making Of beginning at the top. Be
gin not in your grammar schools and
high schools. Begin with the kinder
garten. Never relinquish your efforts I'M
I'll every child in Richmond attends
kindergarten Do not stop the work With
the Kindergarten. Extend its methnGs
evenly through all your lower grades
The elementary work of manual train
ing is only an extension of the kinder
garten 1t is play made of use 1t trains
all the forces. 1t should be a part Of
your schools. not an annex
Do not mistake what you mean by
manual training. It is not learning a
trade L is not becoming q n1acninist or
a mechanic. 1t is simply the training
o. the hands through the guidance OF
a trained brain. 1t means the unifac-
ton of all our powers
AS ! have said, Drawn and brain have
made peace have kissed each other. and
,;,,,y In
ity heavenward. Labor and capital will
one dav be at peace. But that will
not come by arbitration: mat only
smothers the fire Nor by unions that
they know not. Nor by laws for con-
quest by force is an eternal battle. 1t
viii, come only when in the capitalists
the humanities of life root out the greed :
and in the laborer when intelligence and
skin supplant ignorance and awkward
ness. This wal come when in our States
every enid. white and black, rich and
Door must go to school, and when our
school officers. composed Of both men and
women. are selected solely with reference
to their ability to guide in this the
most important work OF the age. ana ana
when orr teachers are selected solely
with reference to their special fitness
for their work, and retained so long as
they continue to sroW in their WORK
and when they are amply pald all Una NAT |
their services demand. and never are
QUESTION OF EXPENSES.
The cost of the kindergarten would be
the teacher who could teach four or five
classes per day The equipment in the
kindergarten need not exceed 10 cents per
pupil per year.
The manual training in the four lower
grades should be taught in the regular
school room by the regular teacher at an
average cost not exceeding 81 per pupil
per year even if the equipment lasts only
one year This would include clay model
ling paper construction. cardboard work.
drawing designing. whiting, sewing,
weaving. baSketrN. water-cOOr work.
The cost for thirty pupils can be form
ulated follows: