The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01
FINE EXHIBITS BY
VIRGINIA SCHOOLS
Their Progress and Development
Reflected in the Education
Building at Jamestown.
PEOPLES INTEREST AROUSED.
M GUY orpELT ii JASON.

III A
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION, VA
November so...It is a matter OF pride
and congra,ulation that wherever vir-
ginia touched the Jamestown Exposl-
tton she made o showing of whith
the. citizens OF the did Dominion may
be ~pardonably proud.
Ut the many points at which Viz
gaiiu touched the jamestown Tlrcen.
iSnnIal perhaps the most extensive.
onJ. III tsornc respects, the most diff.
clit, has been the task SO ~splendidly
performed by Observation-Disclosures y.
assistants. Or. j. a. G. Chandler, Mr..
william NJ. Black. Mr.. Albert Cook
Meyers. Miss Minnie Bronson, Mrs. Par
sons and Mrs. Heard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parsons.sof the Inter
national School Farm of New York.
II the school farm cultivated by sixty
children from Newport News, Norfolk
md Portsmouth, have shown to the
many thousands OF visitors who havc
been attracted BY. this advanced move
ineDt In pducption the scope Of the
,.oik an,l The bearing OF III upon the
life OF the children. the .Modesl school.
under the direction SCf Mrs. Heard. has
afforded opportunity for parents an
teachers to witness the most approved
methods OF teaching In almost NIL the
varied branches of school work.
In the exhibit Of tho colleges AMI
universities. the State colleges, beaded
by the university, attract attention and
challenge comparison with the other
colleges and universities.
Education building.
In the Education Building. where
primary and secondary school work II
shown from many Southern. States and
from the cities OF Boston, Minneapolis.
ST. Louis. Rochester, and the State OF
Ohio, Virginia occupies twenty-five
hundred square feet of space. The
central quadrangle contains exhibits
4 from tifty-six counties out of a Jun.
bred, md eleven cities out OF. seven
iepn.
.rbia educational column is headed
by exhibits from Richmond. Newpor;
News. Lynciiburg and Norfolk. 1t at
tracts great interest, having been
visited by over n hundred thousand
neople since the5 first OF July. more
than eleven thousand OF whom nave
registered.
The exhibit was planned to show the
progress trend of educational life
In Virginia. the concentration OF the
life OF h child rpon the life abou,
him. its geography. IT'S history and It's
physical condition. the efficiency oi
the work done In the city aud country
schools and the broadening of III.
scnool curriculum through manual
training, drawing. music and literature
Advance III Wonderful.
fhe wonderful advance made In the
rural schools OF Virginia in very recent
time Is d source of congratulation
the great problem or tie drift of pop
iilatfon from the country to the city
Is TO be solved. IL solved at all. through
TIE betterment OF rural school condi.
tons. II may as well be granted thai
when by consolidation and transporta.
tion.4 centralized schools with fuli.
developed. four yea high sehoe
courses. shall be established in thu
rural districts, til. opportunities fol
in the city. and should Virginia con,
tinne to improve ger country school,
in the next few years as has been don,
in the recent past, this great desid
ertttum. the opportunity to educat
children in the country where they cal
ENJOY the broader and purer life o
The farm, * assured. This splendid eS
htbit was designed TO show the ex
tensive growth md Development, o
her rnral schools IN particular, and I
has been one. By pictures min
latnres of modern school building
which have replaced the old ill-con
strueted. badly ventilated small rooms
by maps showing how the one-teache
scnppl can be changed into a schoo
community properl3 graded and at
fording opportunities for even some o
The college work: by statistics show
ing the actual work done iii variou
communities: Dw poUnG volumes show
ing the character OF the improve,
work: by exhibits of manual training
drawing, -etc.-3the work OF the pupil
ther; has been SCI before the peop1
of Virginia and those from othe
states. tho splendid opportunities no,
afforded. the children who live in til
rural school districts OF Virginia.
By producing maps. relief map.
studies of local industries, and In man,
ether ways not only the industrial an
commercial interests of Virginia, bu
the wealth of local history, has bee
exhibited and SHOVE III no %uncertai
way the better methods, the NOR
practical work of the schools in yir
gtniar to-day.
Deals With Present.
No effort has been made In this eS
bibitssto trace the iMcipienry of recen
de velopments. The provisions mad
for public education in Virginia byytl,
rev Constitution have been adopte
as the foundation OF this recent pro
gress. The most noticeable, showeve
of these constitutional provisions is !