The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-09-12
School Notes.

School Notes.
The Missouri Worlds Fair Educa-
tioual Board have decided that the
State Educational exhibit shall be a u
nit. This viii make It representative
Of the entire State and not Of indivld-
ual institutions
Professor C. F. Marbut Of the State
University is making a typographical
map Of the State for the Missouri
Worlds Fair Commission. This map
will show the location and extent Of
minerals in the State and will be exhib-
tied in connection with specimens Of
ore.
Joseph %Summers,a Davies county
boy, has been appointed Assistant IN
Physics in The State University.
At this time of year every college
and university is swamped with en-.
quIries from students desiring to work
their way through school. A recent
writer in the Worlds Work sums up
the situation admirably:
"Tales Of students who went through
college on such small sums as $3.50 a
year or less have led boys Of mediocre
asility to attempt working their way
at a task beyond their power. The
officers of any college can tell pathetic
stories of starving students who had
the justification neither of brains nor
Of earning power ever to attempt q
college education" This is a clear
statement OF fact and should make
every boy weigh himself carefully
before attempting to work his way
through college. A college education
is a good thing and is worth some SAP
riice. But it is not worth everything.
Heath and happiness are far more val
liable and should never be sacrificed
for a colledge education.
The introduction OF Agriculture into
the Rural schools is a much needed lm-
%provement in the course of study. But
it is not enough. DR.. Brooks once
SAID: Look with me into the average
country school house. Its Arithmetic,
its Geography, its penmanship, its
bookkeeping, its reading books are still
, dominated by the clerk and trading
point of view. As one listens to the
teaching, 1t Is as If the object were to
create discomfort with the country life,
10 make every bright child hate his sur
roundings. The instruction seems to
assure the failure of farm life. The in
exhaustIble charm and resoufo of the
country have no part In this teaching. >
, Yet statistics show that each year q
hundred young men go into business in
town, sixty take up the ministry, sixty
8 six law, seventy two medicine while a,
against these numbers 5000 annually
take up agriculture as a gainful pur.
suit. 1t is not enough to teach the ell
q ements of Agriculture Gin the rura
schools, The function of education i,
to prepare people for complete living il
' their station in life. Over ninety pei
n cent of the children in the country
schools will spend their life on the
i farm. Their education should recog
3 nize this fact.
Many school Superintendents havI
not given sufficient study to the prob
lens OF school administration and meth
DDS of teaching. This is not entirely
their fault. There has been a lack o
institutions that can train superintend
ents for their special work. To NEE
this need the Teachers College OF tn,
University OF Missouri has been organ
lied. One of us chief functions will b.
to train superintendent for their spe
cial duties.
Chas. A. Proctor has been appointed
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