The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-06-16
Teachers, Reading Circle.
liyosier Pedagogues Have Interesting
Wcrk for The Coming Year.

Indiana leads her sister state
IN many particulars, but in n
respect more notably than in tn
number Of readers enrolled in he
state teachers reading circle
Nearly fifteen thousand pedagC
CUES are carrying this work ever
year, and the books which forl
the basis Of the work have bee
selected with especial care an
anticipation of the teachers
needs.
The reading work for the com
ing year promises to be of espe
clal interest because Of the adop
tion of a book for the genera
culture work which deals witt
an Indiana subject of world-wid,
interest and of which the autho
is an lndianian The book il
question is The New Harmon,
Movement, " written by Georg,
b. Lockwood and published b,
the Appletons. 1t contains ar
introduction Of several page.
written by DR.. w T. Harris,
United States commissioner OF
education, in which he commends
the work as one Of exceptional
educational and economic interest
and value.
The New Harmony Move
ment' deals with the social and
educational experiments con-
Quoted at New Harmony. in
Posey county, by the Owens and
their associates in the earlier
years of the last century. The
whole series of episodes recounted
IS one of the most remarkable in
the history of the country. and,
as Mr. Lockwood shows. many
which have in later
years assumed great proportions,
mad origin in this little Indiana
village IN the days when it was
social experiment station to-
ward which the eyes of the whole
world were turned
The author shows that New
harmony became not only the
icene of the most ambitious. pra-
.tical effort toward social reOrg-
lnization the world has yet wit
lessed, but the birthplace of
'estalozzian education in the
United States, Of the woman's
lights movements, Of the man
al training idea in American
nd of the womans 5 club move
nent. He shows that at New
harmony was conducted the first
kindergarten, and the
rst system Of free, equal and
Universal schools. T" He shows ,
hat New Harmony was the first
scientific center in the ,
'est, that one of its citizens be- !
lme the legislative father Of the !
mithSonian institution and an
ther the principal founder of the !
Philadelphia Academy of Natural !
ciences. chat it was one of the !
lrliest centers of the abolition !;
Iovement, and that through the !
Ihuence of New Harmony the !
Iodern conception of the legal !
ghts of women came to realiZa- (
on in American Jurisprudence. +
e shows that through William !
aclure this little Indiana village y
ave to the west a system of !
echanics' libraries, from which !
ltes the beginnings Of culture /
more than a hundred and fifty !
estem communities. He showsI,,
lat a citizen of New Harmonylo
iginated the philosophy ofls
larchy and invented the per- !
citing printing press. Mr.. y
,ckwood describes in much de- !,
il the educational experiment !,
New Harmony, and the part =
aged by Robert Dale Owen inln
G development of the commonl j
hool system of the state !,
1t is a remarkable array Off
cts, most of them new to the :,
neral reader. which this bookls;
and they are facts Of a =,
aracter calculated to make thele",
)osier prouder of his great :
mmonwealth. The Appletons
We put out a handsome volume Y,
nearly 500 pages. well bound Ifc
d beautifully Illustrated. The v,
mand for the book extends be- lw
nd the membership of the N,
achers' Reading Circle to mem ri
rs of the Indiana Federation Of v,
clubs, which has in w
rsed the book for next winters W
lding, and to all Indianians 81
10 feel an interest and pride in 81
; history of their common yC
alth. AZ
Pity is more sentiment of 70