The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-09
PUPILS TO STUDY THEIR
LESSONS IN SHOWCASES
Several Hundred Children VIII
Attend School at the St.
Louis Exposition.

ST. LOUIS March S.-Going to school for
the amusement and instruction of the pub
lie will be the experience of several hundred
boys and girls at the worlds fair this sum-
mer.
In rooms converted into great show cases
by the removal of one wall they will con-
tinue their studies under the direction of
teachers. while thousands of visitors walk
by and watch their work. They will recite
their lessons, do blackboard work and
take examinations as if in the privacy of
their school rooms at home. If they whis-
per or throw paper wadS like the traditional
schoolboys, they will suffer punishment as
if il were not In public, and more than one
pupil may stand ruefully in corner for
the instruction of 10000 visitors.
The pupils are to be brought here from
various state ana government schools
agements plan TO show methods and proc
esses Without the pupils the exhibits
would be uninteresung papers; ;,, maps ana
other products of work and rows or desks
and styles of blackboards.
ST Louis public schools will have kinder
garten classes at work two hours every
day. the brightest children from the classes
i'm the public schools being used. The
most improved kindergarten methods will
be illustrated. During the last four months
of the exposition pupils from schools for
the deaf dumb and blind OF Missouri Ohio,
Illinois Iowa, Nebraska Kansas and othef
States will be taught in the education ana
social economy building.
In the same building a class from a man
nal training school will illustrate the meth
DDS of work in those institutions. The work
ing classes will all be small, that from the
manual training school. which will be the
largest having about twenty students. The
classes OF the deaf dumb and blind will
have about six or eight pupils in each. Their
expenses VIII De pdld Dy the StaleS SehulhS
them.
The rooms in the educational building
will be furnished like schoolrooms. except
that the walls next 10 the aises will be
removed so that visitors may see and hear
the pupils at work. With the exception OF
the blind pupils all will sit with their backs
toward these aisles, so that the crowds of
spectators will not distract them. The blind
pupils will face the aisleS.
Two native Philippine teachers, Miss Pillar
Zamora and Antonio Estradillo, have al
ready arrived here a bamboo and nipa
sChOOihOuse. like those used in the islands,
will be erected on the reservation and
there the children Of the F1lipinos inhabiting
the little city will be taught. The methods
used in the island schools, from the primary
to the highest grades, VIII be illustrated.
Galleries around the rooms in the school
houses will enable visitors 10 watch the
pupils Indian boys and girls will study
their lessons in the Indian building, as il
they were in the territorial schools Many
will be brought to the fair with their pa
rents. who will live in the Indian colony.
which will be an exhibit of the department
OF anthropology.
At least one university will send students
10 the fair 10 illustrate its laboratory
methods. The school OF mines OF Colorado
has offered the visit as a reward OF merit
for its students. The nell viii work in the
laboratory in the Mines and Metallurgy
building. assaying gold. silver, copper and
other ores. They will be accompanied by
instructors.
several agricultural colleges are also ex-
pected TO send students ia charge Of their
exhibits.