Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-17
OUR CITySCHOOL SYSTEM


 fectly competent to judge of what con
 stitures a good education and he
 scouts the idea of manual training or
 domestic science and furthermore. he ' is not willing to take the word of peo- | De who have made a lGelOna study | Of education, h Bisbee there is onlyl | the lack Of money to contend with inI l Introducing manual training and dol ! nestle science into the, schools, but \ hat is serious enough and l. knew ofI 10 way 10 overcome that difficulty 4p-I 1 less it is done by the women Of the 1 club. believe they could do it if they would. There is no doubt of the fact. 1 that the Introduction of this work into 1 he schools would be Of Very great 1 beneft not. only to the children | out to their parents as veil
 It is not that it is expected to make l carpenters of the boys and cooks and | seam stresses Of the girls but it has been c.early proven that the boy who 1 earns to make a true joining learns | 10 appreciate the beauty of true things
 and consciously tries harder to be rue and square himself, The same principle applies to the girls to say | nothing of the immense. gain 1t would | be to many future homes if the, house
 wives knew him to cook and sew and
 mad been taught not to be wastefuL l One lady who has made an earnest ef-
 tort to do something for the girls of | Bisbee in teaching them 10 sew met
 with success but she has been able
 to reach very few. Now anything 1 connected with the public schools al
 ways reaches the mass of the children
 and those that it is most important to reach. 1 know of no outside work that this club could not take up that would
 be productive of so much good as to
 introduce this work into the pubic l school and believe the women Of this club could do it. A club like this is
 a mighty power in community if it
 once sets itself to work in earnest If we do not mount by using progressive ideas We will be thrust to the foot of
 the ladder.
 A New York father said: "If were
 willing to pay $1O,0OO a year I could
 not procure for my boy such training
 as the government provides for the
 raggedest negro urchin at Hampton
 They learn by doing at Hampton We
 must learn of them. If industrial edu-
 cation is the salvation of the coIored
 race, it is also the. salvation of the white race. What nObler work can
 any body of women do than to lift the l. children of the community a step . higher and so prepare them for a
 braver battle with life And want to
 say while have the opportunity that
 the Bisbee children are worth doing
 all that can be done for them. It is , true that many of them are rough but have reason to believe that that fault is becoming ameliorated and it is the : outgrowth of surrounding conditions
 rather than of character. I have
 worked with these children for more
 than three, years and I find them : brighter than the average and as a ! class very free from mean or dishon-
 Orable traits of character. , If the
 teacher inteTes5s them they work with zeal and if she does aot inter- est them they. will surely interest her ! for they are a lively lot. I like the i Bisbee- children and am, much inter ] ested in seeing them get the best edu- I cation possible. Let us learn of the | great teacher who understood manual I training and whose teaching always ] awakened question and thought r. is sad that more cannot be done to in 1 still the love of trees and flowers. and beautiful things into the growing minds Perhaps in time when there is, not the sulphur smoke with to con. tend and water is more plentiful, trees may be planted around the school l houses and the grounds may not be 1 the bare and desolate spots they now ! are. Environment has great effect i upon character and character is the
 most important point in education
 since it decides conduct and con ! dUct7 says Arnold. lis three-fourths Of life" A child absorbs much from 1 his surroundings. What he is syste- ! natically taught is only small part Of what he learns. though of course he | needs something more than to simply 1 get into the neighborhood of knowl- | edge and absorb it. The love of the i beautiful. and in that word beautiful i is included cleanliness, order and all | that goes to make life sweet and har-
 monious, is a potent factor not only in | the life of an individual but in the life of a community. The Outlook says:
 The best investment that country can make is to build up high grade
 of working people. Such working
 people are not produced under bad
 sanitary. physical or moral conditions. If they are to hayetaste and individual ity they must have a chance to become skillful and beauty living. If they are
 to become men and women who have
 joy and conscience in their work they nnus+ he mi in the way of having Joy