The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-06-09
EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT.
VALUABLE LESSONS TAUGHT AT
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Displays in the Palace of Education
Show What Educators Are Doing
in United States and For
eign Lands.

What the educational exhibit at the
universal exposition at st. Louis viii
accomplish may in measure be- est.
mated by referring to some of the prom
inent examples of tho past.
The Crystal Palace exhibition in Lon
don, in 1851, led to the establishment
of the School OF Industrial Art at the
South Kenslngton museum; the educa-
tional exhibit at the Centennial expo
sition Of 1876 led TO the introduction OF
manual training in the public schools |
of this country. the introduction of shop |
work as part OF The curriculum n tech
nical schools, and the beginning Of the |
training which has rendered possible the |
rapid advance of this country in arts and |
crafts the reorganization of Urinary |
education in France as a result Of the |
educational exhibit at the Paris expo |
sition Of 1878; the rapid growth of man
ual training and the industrial art in |
struction as aresult Of the impetus
given by the Chicago exposition of 1893;
the action Of the French government in
arranging to send students annually TO
this country for the study and iEyesti
cation Of our industrial and commercial
methods as a result of the United States
educational exhibit at the Paris expo
sition Of 1900.
The value of an educational exhibit
lies in the opportunity for comparison.
Methods of administration methods of
teaching, equipment of schools and col
leges, courses of study, with the demon
stration Of the theory which underlies
their construction and the results which
attend their enforcement are brough'
side by side from every quarter of tn,
globe for the investigation of the stu.
dent.
The exhibit of city or state, or (
university, should have as its centIa
object the demonstration of the value OF
its course Of study. The latter contains
the best thought and experience evolved
from the trials and experiments of gen
erations. 1t marks the differentiation OF
school systems and universities, and
should be made the chain to which every
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attached for Illustrative purposes. The
machinery of an educational exhibit is
necessarily limited and must consist II
general Of charts, photographs, printed
matter, maps, models, apparatus anG
specimens. Thousands of dollars car
be expended to good advantage in the
mastery grouping of facts and their
graphic presentation to the public eye
The entire work of a class in a chem
ical laboratory, may, in a dozen photo
graphs, be accurately and completely
told. The school accommodation of 2
city can be set forth in series of photo
graphs with perfect accuracy. One ex-
hibit differs from another In the skill
with which these photographs are com
bined and made to tell the story.
One Of the great innovations in the
exhibit features of the st. Louis expo
sition has been the endeavor to make It
an exhibit of processes. So far as pos
sible, this has been introduced into the
educational department Laboratories
in operation. domestic science and man
work. and the actual instruction of tho
deaf dumb and blind will be speciai
features.
The object of educational exhibit is
twofold first, to secure comparative
exhibit from all countries of the worl(
noted for educational effort; second, tt
present thoroughly systematic exhibl
Of all phases Of education in the United
States.
The following foreign nations hav,
prepared exhibits: England France
Germany Sweden, Belgium, Austria
Italy, Japan, China, Ceylon, Mexico
Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Chill.
One Of the most interesting exhibits
will be that Of the agricultural and me
chanical colleges and experiment sta
lions of the United States which is beinS
prepared under the special appropria
ton Of 100000 made therefor by con
gress at its last session. Many WORKING
laboratories will be maintained in thi
exhibit.
In the university section Of the ex
hibit are grouped the more prominen
universities of the country Amoni
these are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cor
nell. Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Chicago
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri
Washington and st. Louis. The work o
the polytechnic schools OF the countr,
will be presented by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Troy Polytech
mic institute, Purdue university, Prat
Institute, Worcester Polytechnic insti
tute, and others.
In the department Of higher education
Of women, the participants are VassaI
Wellesley, Bryn Mawr Smith and Noun
Holyoke.
A special feature at the ST. Louis ex
position will be the art school exhibit
n which space has been granted til
oading art schools Of the country, sue
5 the st. Louis School of Fine Arts. Ar
Institute of Chicago, Art Students
league, New York Pennsylvania Mu
scum of Fine Arts, Museum School G
Fine Arts, Boston, and Boston Norma
.4rt School.
Another feature of the educations
exhibit will be lecture hall, with
eating capacity for $50 people, fltte
cut for stereopticon and lantern let
ares, in which during the expositio
pecial lectures and talks will be give
by educational experts from all par
If the world
HOWARD J. ROGERS.
Chief of Department of Education.
Every minute 10000 gallons of WI
ter pour over the cascades at the fal