Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-07-04
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FOR BAD BOY
PROBLEM
EDUCATOR GENTLY
SHIFTS RESPONSIBLE THY
Memphis School Superintend-
ent Creates Mild Sensation
at First Session of N, {. A,
Council at Denver,


Denver, July Asserting that
American homes and society are re-
sponsible for the Influences that make
the teachers life burden and in
the end result in the Influences which
corrupt the morals and pave the way
for a criminal career i'm children /
G. Mcneil, superintendent of schools
of Memphis. Tenn created a mild
sensation before the national council
Of education today The meeting of
the council is the only gathering pre-
liminary to the sessions of the Ma
tional Educational association which
oegan Monday evening.
The principal subject before the
council during the day was the care
of delinquents, tactfully referred to az
exceptional children" This sub
ject. together with the report of the
committee on moral training, culture
element and economy of time in
teaching, industrial teaching, coop
Grafton with other countries and ed
ucational progress took the time of
the inner circle of the National Ed
ucational association for the day.
The Introductory statement in the
iscussion OF the dclinQuents was made
by James II. Ban circle. superintend-
ent of schools of Baltimore. Md. and
he was followed by Mr.. Mcneil, who
without hesitation gave what he be
lieved to be the incipicnt cause of de-
linqucncy in children,
Some teaching is so unsoientlfic
ana consequently SO spiritless that it
would make most any child delin-
quent." said J. C. Mcneil. parents
and teachers often make delinquents
of children by failing to observe the
fundamental things and processes in
cident to growth ana development
said the speaker. They make chill
dren hate books by forcing them 10
read before an interest in reading is
aroused BY rushing them into arith-
metcal or grammatical analysis be
fore their development warrants II.
they are made to dislike the sub
iects. Permanent aversion to school
is the legitimate result of putting
children at work on studies they are
not mature enough TO comprehend.
The method of presentation, however
often counts for as much as mat
urity."
The speaker condemned the attempt
to put high school branches into gram
mar grades or Intermediate studies in
to primary grades and said that edu-
cative agencies must look continuous
lv To the care of the physical ana
emotional. as well as to The 'intellec-
tual side of education.
Society suffers from elements that
are unstable. erratic. shiftleSs ANA
inefficient These elements corrupt
n orals. lead to irrational modes of
living and swell the hosts OF the help |
less and criminal who become the real
burdens Of society. Unless delinquent
classes have the benefits OF the kind |
of education which ere adapied to their !
peculiar needs they grow up among us |
and recruit the army of r-ople who
never fit anywhere They fill the poor |
houses, the prisons. the asylums and |
the slums. They produce and repro
duce their kind and bring about "a |
feeling of social unrest which Is grow
ing in this complex age
Miss olive NJ. Jones of New York /
City was Of the opinion that the care