Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-08
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.


universal exposition at st. Louis will
accomplish may in a measure be esti-
mated by referring to some of the prom
inent examples of the past.
The Crystal Palace exhibition in Lon
don, in 1851, led to the establishment
OF the School Of Industrial Art at the
| South hensington museum; the educa-
honal 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 a part of the curriculum in 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 primary
education in France as a result of the
educational exhibit at the Paris expo
| slton of 1878; the rapid growth of man
I ual training and the Industrial art in
! struction as result 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 investi-
! cation of our industrial and commercial
methods as 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
Ieges, courses of study, with the demon
stration Of the theory which underlies
their construction and the results which
attend their enforcement, are brought
side by side from every quarter of the
globe for the investigation of the stu
dent q H.. ,
The exhibit Of city or state, or "a
university, should have as it's central
object the demonstration &C the value Of
It's course 81 study. y &aI2tter contains
the best thought enaHX~ e~icnce evolved
from the tri&'s and .experimc nts of gen.
erations. II marks the differentiation of
school systems and universities. and
should be made the chain to which every
item of an educational exhibit should he
attached for illustrative purposes. Tho
machinery of an educational exhibit is
necessarily limited, and must consist in
general of charts, photographs, printed
matter, maps, models, apparatus and
specimens. Thousands of dollars can
be expended to good advantage in tho
mastery grouping of facts and their
graphic presentation to the public eve,
The entire work Of a class in a chem
lcai laboratory, may. in a dozen photo
graphs, be accurately and completely
told. The school accommodation of a
city can be set forth in a series of photo
graphs with perfect accuracy. One ex-
hibit differs from another in the skill
with which these photographs are COM
binod 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 il
an exhibit of processes. So far as DOS
sible, this has been introduced into the
educational department. Laboratories
in operation, domestic science and man.
ual training schools where pupils are at
work, and the actual instruction of the
deaf, dumb and blind will be special |
features
The object of educational exhibit is
rwofold; first, to secure a comparative
exhibit from all countries of the world
noted for educational effort; second, to
present a thoroughly systematic exhibit
of all phases of education in the United
States.
The following foreign nations have
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 being |
prepared under the special appropria- !
ton of 100000 made therefor By con- |
gress at its last session. Many working !
laboratories Will be maintained in this
exhibit.
In the university section of the ex-
hibit are grouped the more prominent |
universities Of the country. Among |
these are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cor
nell, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Chicago. |
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, !
Washington and st. Louis. The work of
the polytechnic schools of the country
will be presented by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Troy Polytech-
mic institute, Purdue university, Pratt
institute, Worcester Polytechnic insti-
tute, and others.
In the department of higher education
OF women, the participants are Vassar,
wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Smith and Mount