The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-10-25

eNertion the human brain is capable il called upo" y
do OF rising almost any task aud And this not only
without harm, but with actual benefit to the mind
Sidus believes that there two great faults win our
school First education is not begun early enough
and second that children taught rather than educated
TO teach" fact or definition or date OF
the name az letter the word cat into baby brain ~
educate permit and encourage the chdban to earn
automatically BY encouraging the reasoning powers rms
little dense but perhaps make plain Sdus
his baby boy in hand when he less than years old
He started three separate lines of Development First was
taught love OF play physical eNeon then Mrs Sidus
assigned the duty OF giving the child full normal dose
OF Mother Goose fairy and all the babbc and prase OF
nursery days The father then each day sought not to teach
the child anything but to lead him 70 discover for himself
some fact and the relation Of that fact to other facts
The first gave the child sturdy body and made
him lover OF outdoors expert all childish games
The second kept him baby and stimulated his i'm
agnaton The third gave him facility in handling that most
wonderful Of all tools-the reasoning brain.
Never in his life has he been told. in to ques
ton wouldn't understand Never has he been told
thing because father says So Never has he been
given false soveny in reply to his childish qucs
tons Each time the little mind reached out-whcther to
ask "How big is the SUM- why does the kitty have
careful truthful has been given Sidus found
that the foolish questions which his boy asked the
all children asked but he them the cropping
OF the awakening mind and sought to give them direction
purpose and relation
The result was that the child being held down the
alphabet learning To- and few vague and
lated about the things he about him. easily
in history he in Mother Goose He didn't
learn TO- but he learned by playing dominos the
relation OF numbers mot gures and his mind permitted
discover for itself that twice two makes four.
They found that simple book chemistry in
terestng the child when ne first began read
Alice in Wonderland" Not only interesting but
dersandabe
There are lot of things which child too
young understand So won't explain them The child
however much interested in locomotive he is in
cat, and what interests him he understand.
You don't believe it, do your
WELL this Sidus boy school when he years
old He entered the first grade usual and by had
UP third grade In months he had passed
through school grades and he didn't study any more
il much did his fellow pupils Indeed. is doubtful
il he really had study other children understand the word
He read the books through and understood them To
Study in the acceptaon Of the word is mentally
the book up and statements definitions and dates
undersood-in the head This is purely parrots method
When the sidus boy years old he ready for
Harvard They had had take him Of school for
pie OF years because he physically little child land
tally tool and he could endure the discipline the sitting
still and the dull routine OF high school He was in fact the
mischievous restless little shaver OF ! o years.
Remember, this is no bullying browed Johnny Boston
beans 1t is just healthy child who has been taught that
he has mind and how to use it
Prof Sidus says that modern school methods tend
press children and their minds by holding them
to easy subjects This says Sdu gets the child
and its power independent thought 1t makes the brain
merely receptacle for information rather than producer OF
knowledge and thought
PROF. SIDUS HAS AT LEAST GIVEN US SOME
THING TO THINK ABOUT.