Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-23
EDUCATIONAL SCHEME
WRONG LAND0NE
SCIENTIST LAUDS PLAN FOR
SPELLING REFORM
He'd of New School Praises Presl-
dent RooseVelt's Ideas
Regarding Pho
netics

President Roosevelt's spelling reform
received a vigorous Endorsement yes
terday from DIR. Leon Ebert Landone
founder of the new school at Holly
wood for the development of deficient
children along the lines of evolution
Endorsed by Burbank and President
Jordan.
DR.. Landone was delivering lecture
on Genius and Conscious lmaglne
Versus Mediocrity and Indefinite
Thinking"
Not only did DR.. Landone recommend
President Roosevelt's spelling reforms
but he took occasion to criticise the
modern educational methods, as FOL
lows:
"When Roosevelt tried to change the
smelling system a wee little bit college
professors rose up and criticised him.
1t was so much trouble to change the
style of printing at Washington that a
law was passed establishing the old
system of reading which is based on
names instead of the sounds OF let
ters."
Proceeding with his lecture, he said;
What is this condition we call ge-
MUS? 1t is possible to develop from
mediocrity to genius. A genius In
tones; he hears them. genius in
painting is one who can see the picture
Image it.
Genius is imaging a thing; not
thinking about it. The power of re-
imaging-that is genius. You can car
ry an image about an image, lnsteao
of the image itself; but that is moi
genius.
THE business genius is the man who
can tell that there are 10000 bushes ne
is buying, not 10000 indefinite things
or that there are forty acres in a GER
tain tract of land he is buying.
"Vividness of reimaging or the abil-
ity to remember-that constitutes
genius.
"Great success is merely great, vital
vivid imaging. And that is the only
difference between mediocrity ano
genius. Some one has said that genius
is only hard work. But if you WORK
hard to win you are working to re-
image.
sit is essential to reimage a thing
with all the senses. And our schoo
educational system has compelled III
to use only one sense. That is sight
Our whole education is with words
The word cat. cat is a fraud. l
would never catch rat
"In 1906 and 1906 occurred our indus
trial revolution. But our educationa
system went on just the same as be
fore.
System Wrong
"When you ask many pupils how
many worlds there are they repl!
two since the old and new worlds
are pictured in the Biographies always
And if you ask them where these twt
worlds are Joined they will reply, "A
the equator is the only place where
they join You remember those two
touching at the equator? This is be-
cause their education does not give
them a definite image.
But teachers say, arithmetic i!
supposed to be solid, absolutely fixed.
True Yet it may be doing more thar
anything else to take the individual
away from the proper image of the
thing. To illustrate; How many o,
you-school graduates of many years
studying of arithmetic-how many o.
you can draw a line exactly a foo
long every time you try without fail
Yet you have studied about the foo
for years.
MANY of our great men come from
the farm and from states of life en-
abling them to study the actual condi
tons of life.
1.-THE black crow, according to ex
periments at Harvard, is known to b'
better counter than men. That birt
has counted tangible things, seven Of
eight enemies at time coming toward
him In the sky. He has not studied
about eight objects--one at a time. Th'
human being counts by one. The null
tiplication table is learned wrong. L
should be said Nine mines are eighty
one;' that is the true meaning. 1t is
nine mines, and not nine times nine
which makes eighty-one objects.
"A child is told that arithmetic is thu
science of numbers. Then Immediately
he is taught a system whereby he
merely juggles with figures and never
studies numbers. Fractions are thus {
mystery, deep and intangible to him.
when Napoleon was told by hi
aide de-camp that there were 20,Q0I
Germans, or English, or Austrians, II
such a force of men opposing him h
knew and realized what that meant
it was not merely a row of figures t.
him. He was a genius at war anC
Vsualized the number of men draw
up against him. And Grant actual!
experienced every battle beforehand il
his tent, visualizing the existing condi
tions as reported to him by his aides
His only mistakes were where he wal
given incorrect information"
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