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


exertion SO the human brain is capable called upon to
do rising almost any task and test Ana TINS NOT oY
without harm, but with actual benefit to the mind
Sidus believes that two great faults win our
school system First education is begun early enough
and second that children taught rather than educated
TO teach" is to fact definition OF date OF
the name Of letter the word cat into baby brain 10
educate permit and encourage the ehdbran 70 ea
automatically by encouraging the reasoning powers inns
sounds little dense but perhaps make plain sidus
took baby boy hand when he less than years OLD
He started three separate lines OF Development FIRST was
taught love OF play and physical cxeon then Mrs sidus
assigned the duty Of giving the child n normal dose
Mother Goose fairy tales and all the bahbe and prae OF
nursery days The father each day sought not 10 teach
the child anything but lead him to discover Tor himself
some fact and the relation OF that fact TO other facts
The first gave the child sturdy body and made
him 81 outdoors and expert in all childish games
The second kept him baby and stimulated his inn
agnation The gave him facility in handling that most
wonderful OF all tools-the reasoning brain.
Never his life has he been told in TO ques-
ton that he wouldn't understand Never has he been told
thing is true because father says Never has he been
given soyeny IN reply his childish
tons Each time the little mind reached ouwhether to
ask SLOW big is the SUM- why does the kitty have
ta?" careful truthful has been given Sidus found
that the foolish questions which his boy asked were the
that all children asked but he them the cropping
OF the awakening mind and sought 70 give them direction
purpose and relation
The result was that child being held down the
alphabet learning 10" and few vague and
lated facts things he about him. easily
in history he Mother Goose He didn't
"learn TO- but he learned by playing dominos the
relation OF numbers mot gurcl and his mind permitted
to discover for itself that twice two makes four
They found that simple book chemistry in
tcrestng the child when he first began read was
"Aice in Wonderland" Not only interesting but
derstandable.
There are a lot Of things which think child is too
young to understand won't explain them The child
however. much interested in locomotive he in
cat and what interests him he understand.
You don't believe IT, do your
Well, this Sidus boy TO school when he years
old the first grade usual and by had
up the third grade In six months he had passed
through school grades and he ddn study any
II much. did his fellow pupils Indeed is doubtful
if he really had study other children understand the word
He the books through and understood them 70
the book up and statements definitions and dates
--understoodn the head This purely parrots method
When the Sidus boy years old he ready for
Harvard They had had to 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 lie was in fact the
mschievous, restless little shaver Of or years.
Remember this is bulging browed Johnny Boston
beans 1t is just a healthy child who has been taught that
he has a mind and how it.
Prof Sdus says that modern school methods 10
press children and their minds by holding them down
certain easy subjects This says Sidus gets child
mind into groove and destroys its courage its originality
power for independent thought It makes the brain
merely receptacle for information, rather producer Of
knowledge and thought.
PROF. SIDUS HAS AT LEAST GIVEN US SOME
THING TO THINK ABOUT
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