The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-08
DR. BUCHNER SPEAKS
INTERESTING LECTURE ON PERI
 ops OF CHILDHOOD.
Member of State Univerrfty Faculty Entertains q Large Montgomery Audience With Discussion of
 Child Study.

Dr. E. F. Buchner of the Depart ment of Philosophy and Education of the State University at Tuscaloosa de livered lecture under the auspices oi the club women of Montgomery last evening in the Jesse French parlors on Dexter Avenue when his audience was large and appreciative one composed of the most prominent men and women of Montgomery.
 Dr. Buchner's subject was .'rransi- tional. Periods in the Child's Develop
 This is a subject which should ap- peal to all thinking men and women as 1t affects the weil-being of the hu-
 In his lecture pr. Buchner took the child from infancy to young manhood
 6e pr BSsh1sr SSngar gaid Daton in g.ty gars regards
 the child as an adult in miniature The boy is little man" the girl "a little woman. The inevitable result of this idea Is to treat, the child as if he were were a grown up. It would have us in&sIst & apply our adult moral rules to him:
 study has in the last quarter century approached the child, and the result fs
 that we are finding out that the child ed as an adult in miniature If the
 popular view were true. and if the growth of the child merely meant pro- p0G p0gtSPsb ebsbood oSr hesS aSsqg would be eight times larger than thev now are. our necks and trunks very Ions and our legs very snort a eR
 pansion would in truth be monster
 This modern study of the child. thn so-called child study has now gonee
 far enou~h to get synthetic view of development. It shows that growth r. orderly and follows definite laws. Tn care of the home and the work of tn ! N~ I f1NT
 bv the results of the many investiga,
 tions that. have been made upon chiI- dren of all ages"
 The lecturer no'nted out five stages or nIateaus of development. The .pro, tectional stage comes first: from btrt' to the age of one and half years; thoo
 years: the social stage from 9 to about
 the 18th year; the ethical stage fror' 18th to about the 18th. and the stage of maturity from about 20 SnwaiTd ita no. culiar charact cter'stics and requires spe- cial care. Tn the rojeetionai stage tn,
 infant is developing his senses an' the time for making physical co-ord nations. It is marked by the acquisi ton of speech and the appearance free ideas. The i'm. ulsive stage F | marked by increased freedom oS actiy. does is done impulsiveiy. It Is the suggestive age of development It is | the time of imagination and play. A the close of this period the brain M has 1 practically completed its growth. Tn' social stage follows the Sth year. prob | ably the most sickly year Of childhood
 This is the age of playmates and cro-
 nies. Boys now go In gangs they seek conflicts and struggle for mast cry. They now have passion for sto | res of great men. This is the time for drills and skills. The ethical stage foi- lows the great physical rebirth of th' early teens The child now ceases to be a selfish individual and becomes i? member of the, race The mind show It Is the age of friendship. There is ' sentimental response to myth, poetry nature and religion.
 Popular science satisfies needs nov appearing. This is the age of conver sions and combinations. It Is the age of the drama The mind takes. great leaps and bounds. All sHace and all 1 time are now interesting. Ideas of jus. l actively demands to be understood, and
 measures everybody and everything in | terms of fairness. The last stage is
 the age of achievement. This Is tnt | time for precision, exactness. Pure science should now come in. It Is the | vocational age.
 Between these stages there are are greatest care both at home and Tn the school. Each child becomes different from what he was before after pass ing through the transition.
 The practical bearing, said Dr. Buch-
 ner. of all shis study is not merely to heip ms care for individual children. but also to show us how to organize our schools into a system to fit child nature and child life; Corresponding to each stage of developing life there ia n grade of school: the primary school, the grammar school. the high school, and the college and university
 Dr. Buchner's lecture was one run ol valuable suggestions to arents ana teachers, especially to those whose tendency 1t Is to force the measures of life on the child regardless of the child's Individuality.