The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-11-01
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plause)
l have shown you how to adapt the
larger pupils to the manual training,
and what to produme, but have not
shown how it works out when this
is commenced in the kindergarten
where 1t should begin. The kinder
garten seeks to make the little tots
acquainted with proper ways of doing
all the different acts of life, and they
come into the first grade of the school
we'll informed. Here they take up
paper folding for the first year, and
learn to make things out of paper
that will sell in the market. They
may be useful or they may be artis-
tic, or they may be both, but eXpe-
rience has hown that they will sell
for little something, and that pays
| for material In the second year,
they learn to build things out of
paper. All kinds of things can be
formed in paper, and some very use
| full things will be found among them.
The 3rd year each boy must have a
knife. There never was a rational
boy who did not long for knife, and
the knife never was too big. ! want
him to have ass cent knife, and 60
cents worth of wood; total 80 cents
Out of this he can make picture
| frame, flower stick to support a
| flower, and six other articles. They
may not be beautiful, but he will be
required to do exact work, and in
! this lies the chief value. He will
| form the habit of planning before he
does the work, and then he will pro-
duce, something according to plans.
| He is also cultivatlng the creative
power originally. In the 5th and
! 9Th grades he will take up drawing,
and will make designs of things be-
J fore he makes them in the material,
and he will make eight useful arti-
, cles to take home. In the 7th and
Sth grades he will make such things
as bread boards, sleeve boards, iron
ing boards etc, and they will be we'll
made. He can make as much as he
likes outside of school, but we will
have him de certain things at school,
and while we shall not try to have
him do so very much, we shall be
| very particular about having 1t done
in way to cultivate right habits of
thot, and right habits Of work.
Our, school board has very gener-
ously purchased fifteen work benches
for us, and fifteen sets of tools, at
cost of 1925, and the boys are
very anxious to get to using them.
We shall have certain boys in charge
of certain classes, and they will be
held to strict account of how they
conduct the work of the classes, fol-
lowing plan are furnished them to
work out on, and under the super
vision of teacher. The dull boy who
has been the butt of jokes because
he was slow in comprehending work
laid out in books, sometimes finds
that in the work shop he can do
things that the bright fellows of the
class room can not do, and this gives
him encouragement that puts new life
into him. He begins to forge ahead,
and from the impetus gained in the
work shop, he will gain better hold
on his lessons in the books. He finds
that he is no longer tail-ender, and
rises to the dignity of youth and man
hood, for he realizes that he Is worth
while. This feeling is the key to
success. 1t is the father of achieve
ment and the enemy of idleness and
crime. 1t makes men.
BY raising vote, the federation
extended DR.. Harrington a vote of
thanks.