Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10
ton last spring to lop OFF the fads and

ton last spring to lop OFF the fads and
whimsies7"
Very little except to promise. Mr..
Maxwelrs last bulletin of studies shows
that sewing begins in the third year and
is not postponed until the fourth, as critics
of the system advocated. History was
advised for the fourth year, but Mr.. Max
well puts it off until the sixth year-when
the child is virtually within a year OF
ending its compulsory school period. Yet.
metallurgy Is prescribed in grades when
pupils are years old. When they are
6. and years of age they are required
to take extraordinary SUBJECTS such as,
say, the circulation OF blood in a tadpole $
tail
Topography OF New York, which you
might say means learning where the fire
hydrants are situated. is taken in the
fourth year. This will be valuable when
the boys grow up to be hremen, If they
don't forget after ten years time. Tots OF
are set at free-hand drawing. Boys are
still taught raffia. Do you know what
raffia is? Put the question to grownup
New Workers., will you, by way of examina-
ton on what they know about the details
of how their elementary schools are con-
Quoted. Well, raffia for boys 1 may de-
bonnets of their sisters dolls. It's a great
thing. Mr.. Maxwell soaring in the high
reason of his poetic fancies, thus under
takes the training of the eye and hand.
and preparing the future citizen for his
part in life.
Vital Knowledge.
English? Mono change has been made
in the study of English. No; no change
N ha or nd ~
are still, as l look at 1t, subordinated in
time given, as when Grout reported that
out of 1900 minutes only 1915, or less than
one-half are allotted TO English, penman-
ship, geography, history and arithmetic.
"Swarms OF children enter our schools
without any real knowledge of the Ian
guage Home cultivation for the majority
Is laeking-the home language is often
some other language than English With
the elementary schooling what il u.s. what
wonder II native bred teachers speak with
strange accent?
If we had a little less music and more
English, little less of the chemistry OF
cooking and more English, little less
mechanical>draw and more English. and
little less raffia and more English, ther
| the child of foreign parents who goes
through the schools ana graduates from a
| college TO become "A teacher would be bet.
ter fitted TO keep the well of English un.
( defiled.
There is a frightful waste of money OF
supervision. Damrosch, as musical direc-
tor, has not been replaced this year; other
wise the system is as it was. with some
2oS directors and teachers for manual
training. hop work. cooking. sewing, music
and physical culture, maintained at a cost
! of nearly $4,000 yearly. With the excep.
, ton of cooking every regular teacher ID
capable of teaching these branches. Phys
zeal culture teachers are an imposition
They are mere boys and girls without ans
| academic or pedagogic training. They be-
gin ON A,2oO @ year, whereas the regular
class teacher who has spent four or five
years In training college and must ther
pass Maxwelfs peculiar examination must
begin on $500 Cwomen) or $500 mem. This
majority of these specials are unable e
! give lesson without the aid OF a book
Sometimes they come along and merel,
give instructions 10 the competent elias.
| teacher"
A teacher who recently resigned to &c
into law declares that in the NTH. sixth and