Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-07

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fish one. The ideal educational scheme
is not for myself. Fundamentally it is
for the other fellow. Education is to
persuade the pupils in things, to
in them a ~pleasurable sensation
in their studies, to awaken interest in
them, that the pupil will follow the
teacher. Now to do this the teacher
must get the very estate of the pupil,
he must live with the pupil, educate
him. You know and / know that our
daughters and 0 want those teach
ers who inspire. The education pro-
cess of religion and the process of
education are the same, the aim being
to bring people into a higher life. Ed
ucation, therefore, DIS notsa selfish vo-
cation. We are not in it simply for
the money, for there r other occupa-
lions which produce more. Education
is not carried on for the present peo-
pie, but for those to come. 1t is not
for the voters of today, but for those
who will cast their ballots ten, fifteen
and twenty years from now.
Education No Burden.
Very often we hear that complaint,
OouSoI1OA I'D a UQlOSA VI 0OClCJy.
This statement Is fundamentally
wrong. Civilization is the burden of
education. All the civilization we
have here is due to education. An ed
ucated man OF woman is enc who
wants everything. II you educate
your children for higher things, they
will demand them. You are not going
back to the log cabin, for you have
been educated to live in modern
houses. American people are the bus
lest in the world because they are the
best educated. An educated world
makes an immediate market. If peo-
pie were not educated to attiring
themselves in new spring toys at East
err time the manufacturers could de-
fer the making OF bonnets until next
winter. But as the people are edu-
Gated to it, they must yea the best
upon that day. We will work to get
good things because we r educated
for them. Modern education has a
broader idea than anything. The ed
vocational process must be made to in
Iterest men in the best things Of the
world. The modern industry Of edu-
cation is a greatest thing in the
world. Education means the world
of possibilities. / want education to
have the widest range. If a boy has
a talent for music, cultivate this in
him. Education has gotten to be now
where it touches everything. Educa-
ton is the boys right and the girls
right. Education means that we are
to become the makers of this world.
The future of this world lies in the
hands of educated people"
s~tevenson's Address.
President s.. K. Stevenson of Iowa
City, in his annual address, said in
part as follows:
eIt is a common sheer that the pu-
pills in our modern schools do not
know how to read, write and spell,
while their time in school is taken up
with singing, drawing, sewing, cook
ing and manual training. So much has
been said along this line that in GER
tain quarters those that hold the
purse-strings are beginning to hesitate
over further appropriations for the
teaching of such subjects, in spite of
the strong approval given them by pro-
~fessional e%ducator1. It was an oppor-
tune discovery, therefore, when DR.. T.
M. Balliett Of Springfield, Mass, found
in the archives Of the Springfield pub
lie schools a volume Of examination
papers in spelling and arithmetic writ
ten in 1916 by the pupils of the Spring
field high school. There were eighty.
five that took the test and left the re-
suit for the information of posterity.
The same questions were given the 245
pupils in the ninth year of of the
New York schools. In spelling, the
Springfield average of correctness six
ty years ago., was 4O.6; in New York
51.2. In arithmetic the Springfield
average was 29.4; in New York the
average was 65.5. The same was ap.
piled to ninety-four pupils in Brooklyn
and with results even favorable
to the boys and girls of 1906. Nor
must it be forgotten that the pupils of
the Springfield school sixty years ago
were much older than those who took
the test in New York and Brooklyn.
This test proves conclusively that the
modern school does teach the pupils
to read, spell and compute accurately.
/ believe that a fair test taken in Iowa
schools would prove the same thing.
The three Rs have been the backbone
OF school work in days gone by; they
are the fundamentals of the school to-
day and will remain such.
Extension Was Necessary.
But new conditions show that read.
ing, spelling and arithmetic can be
better taught where they are supple
mented with drawing, music and man
ual training. Supt. Maxwell of New
York has tersely stated this when he
said: The extension Of the course OF
study to embrace execution and ex-
preston is steadily improving those
attainments that depend chiefly upon
Judgment and memory Brains quick.
ened and developed by the exercise OF
the hands, eyes and voice are more
acute when it comes to purely mental
operations. Manual training and draw
ing then have ONE to stay. They
have proved their right in the school
and wherever sanely taught have In
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