Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-03
PUBLIC SCHOOLS FINE
HIGH PRAISE FROM DIR. CECIL
REDDIE, ENGLISH EDUCATOR.

BALTIMORE, January 3-Dr. Cecil Red
! die, head of the school at Abbotsholme, in
Derbyshire, and one of the best-known and
| most successful educators in England, ar
rived in Baltimore yesterday to study the
city's school system. DR.. Reddle is one
of the several hundred English teachers
| who will visit the schools in this country
within the next few months
He said that he had visited the schools
of New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia ana
Boston, and that he had been much I'M
pressed by what he had seem
Many of your school buildings are mag
nificent,'' he said, land everywhere there
is keen interest in education. You are not
content with what you are doing, but you
are always anxious to do something bet
ter. The interest shown by all classes
in the cause of education is one of the
brightest evidences of rapid mental growth
that l have noticed in America.
You are always willing to make expert
ments to work out new ideas. You are
not afraid to go ahead. In this respect
the American schools are different from
those in England, where we hold more
firmly to the moorings of the past.
I'm England we grow more out of the
past" he continued. ITO some extent you
do not emerge from a historical PACK
ground, as we do but keep your educa-
tional system suspended in mldalr, as IL
We're.
YOU are weaker than we are in sec
ondary schools Of course, our private
schools correspond to your high schools,
but in late years England has erected large
public schools for the more advanced schol-
ars. I think you make mistake IN some
of your methods in the high schools You
show a tendency to level up things, SO 10
speak. Inequality you dread to some eX-
tent You believe in equalizing the schol-
ars as far as possible. By this you lose
some fine material. Our idea is to BRING
out to the highest degree the latents OF
the individual, and we do not attempt to
get the same results from all scholars.
Our system of education tends more to-
ward individualism.. The brAilant intel.
lects should not be leveled to the plane OF
duller minds. Everything possible should
be obtained from each scholar as an IN
dividual.
Immigrants a Great Problem.
Zone of your great educational prob
lens, believe, lies in the immigrants who
are annually pouring into America by
thousands. They contain richest material.
The Poles particularly have great posi-
bilities. They are artistic people. 1t
is in their blood. The Anglo Saxon has
not the artistic soul possessed by the Poles.
the Italians and the French, and when the
artistic peoples come here to mingle In
your life they should add wonderfully to
your growth in the arts l am confident
that out OF the thousands OF roles VINO
come to America you could get some really
great sculptors, painters and musicians If
you would educationally develop the genius
of these people"
DR.. Reddie said that when he returned
to England he would make some changes
in the mana cement of his school-changes
due to his observations in the finest schools
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balt-
more and Washington.
His school is one of the best known in
stitutiOnS of it's kind in England With
one building he established It eighteen
years ago. Since then he has labored
steadily to make it model institution, and
his efforts have been richly rewarded. In
1t he is carrying out his belief in the de-
velopment of each pupil according to his
talents Among the innovations is a print
ing establishment, where the most up-to-
date work is done by the scholars.