The Yale expositor., 1902-06-20

says Harvey Sutherland In Alnslee's.
THE day after Il IS weaned we start
In 20 teach II 20 read AS soon as ever
we can we pack II on 20 kindergarten,
there 90 be instructed In the health
giving arts OF braidlng colored paper
and working at such tasks as would
make a grown persons eyes ache.
Then we send ~ 90 public school. !
have seen public school buildings I'm
New York city that the builder ought
10 go 10 states prison for. dark. un.
sanitary holes. We put the child In
the public school and tell IL 10 sit
right still with It's nose I'm beck and
be nice aud not make noise, when
we know that It's nature clamors 10
run and play and jump and halloo 80
as 10 grow up 10 be made Of meat and
not OF putty. In some public schools
tho great truth that play Is n wicked
waste OF time has been recognized to
the extent OF abollshing even the
stingy fifteen minutes recess doled
out In most Instances. When there are
Fairgrounds they are neatly paved
with artificial stone. and almost big
enough TO swing a cat In. Sometimes
the playroom Is In a nice. dark cellar.
where the toiletroom Is.
but the child may play after school
hours. Oh. bless your heart. we have
fixed that all right Home work. We
give them home work TO addle their
brains over by artificial light. And II
"a In N i'll Al A,t
make her suffer the most prolonged
agony possible In her adult life. We
choose the critical time and set her at
the piano. Paper can be cut 10 play
better than she ever will. but that
isn't 10. We want 10 come as near
as possible 10 killing her without actu.
ally doing so. No your hour isn't up
yet. Dorothy. You march right back
and don't you come out OF that parlor
again till you have practiced a full
hour. do you hear me? We keep the
poor little things up till all hours. ex.
cite them with novels and theaters.
feed them on stimulating and relative
ly innutrltious foods. and encourage
them TO poison themselves with candy.
crunched and gulped down before the
cane sugar has been digested In the
mouth. We give them coffee and tea
10 set their nerves on n twitter. Good
Lord. What don't we do TO kill them
We act like n pack OF fools. We parents.
and II any OF our young ones live 10
be twenty. are tolerably sound OF
mind. aren't sick more than half the
time. and have at least seven teeth
that don't ache. Il Is more by good
luck than good judgment. Is II any
wonder that the eyes suffer along with
the rest OF the body?
But most OF all Il is the crazy no.
ton that the child's nind Is developed
by reading that Is TO blame for what
we call the degeneracy OF the eye. Oh.
serving and comparing are what de.
yelop the mind. but you can't beat that
into a teachers head One OF them
told me the other day how much better
the schools were In Germany than IN
this country. Little children there
she said. do sums In long division
much faster than American children.
I wanted 20 shake her They keep the
German children In school almost all
the waking day and the barbarous
'ype they print books In increases the
short.sightcdness from twenty per cent
IN the lower grades to sixty and even
seventy per cent In the upper grades.
No wonder Germans are so prone 70
suicide, They had rather so 70 the
had place forever than live a little
while IN Germany"