The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-24

"You can't achieve anything without
the help Of others. Neither can an
individual exist solely for himself"
These statements were made by DR..
the teachers institute at the chautau-
qua this morning. He began his ad-
dress with the acceptance OF the an
thropologist idea of the location in
which man originated. This is in a
country where grow the bamboo. This
plant was the most valuable for all
the uses of mankind and with 1t man
was able to survive. With piece OF
bamboo, a man would do something.
Other men saw what he had done.
Some made little additions and i'm
provements and so the race made ma
terial progress. But before there
could be progress of any kind man
has to go to others and get their ideas.
You can't invent better thing until
after you F-ow the thing itself.
Whenever man purposes to do some
thing in his own independent way, he
fails.
Progress Is Made.
Progress is made in the same way
In the social life" said DIR. Kinnaman
''Tl = family did not use to be as it
now is. A race is going to make pro-
gress only providing it first accepts
what others give 1t and then puts in
something of it's own. There must be
the five institutions for q race to
achieve success, but Just as the race
can not without them, neither can the
individual"
What is the school doing? 1t is
trying to take the young life and put
into it the achievements of the race
1t Is required that the child get the
best of everything into himself, SO he
may give something back to the race
The teacher stands as a mediator be-
tween the child and these things. We
lead him and teach him to adjust him.
self. Unless he lives the roundest,
fullest and completest life we have
failed in our mission"
Limitations Of Children.
"How the young child does his
thinking was the topic taken up by
DR.. Forbush this morning. He said
there are limitations to the child that
too often are not understood. TOO
many look at the child from the
adults standpoint" said DR.. Forbush.
"As the result we too often overshoot
the child's mind"
The speaker attacked the kind of
spelling books and readers that is
0r,0c t.
He said the books advance too rapid
ly for the children's minds The child
gets lost in the multiplicity of names.
He first learns the action words, but
cverlooks the nouns and descriptive
adjectives.
I'VE need to know what the child
knows before we start to teach him
what We know" remarked the speak
tr. He said when the teacher finds the
child's attention tagging. other meth
DDS OF approach must be devised The
child displays remarkable inability
TO comprehend the passage of time.
He does not understand dates and in
TERMS. He wants things to happen i'm
mediately: he believes they ought. He
is filled with impatience His under
standing Is crude. His ideas are gro
tcss;ue. He Is wholly lacking in the
power Of reason. You can't make a
child reason. You reason with him and
believe he understands your meaning
but You are mistaken. He acquiesces
and that is the end Of it,
Boys City Holds Court.
The first session of the court Of the
mayor of the Boys City was held this
morning. And the first thing that hap
pened was the discovery that not en-
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