Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-26
SCHOOLS RELATION TO LIFE
This is Theme of Prof. Keyes at the
Teachers Institute.
WOULD TEACH YOUNG TO FARM
Lecturer Declares schools should In
stilI Knowledge of Agriculture
in Their PupiIs-Favors In
dustriaI TrnininR.

The relation OF school to commercial life
and the demand that the public schools so
minister to the development OF the pupil
that he or she may be able to adjust him
self or herself to the needs OF the COM
munity was the topic Of the talk of Prof.
Charles Reyes Of Hartford Conn, to the
teachers at the Douglas County Teachers
Institute Thursday.
He was speaking particularly upon what
the general tendency toward Industrial
education for boys means for Nebraska
and he therefore emphasized the demand
that the Nebraska schools develop the
pupils to in turn develop to their best adj
vantage the agricultural wealth of the
state He showed how the present problem
OF the educator is the problem Of adjust
ment. He showed how the school must be
in substance a garden for the culture OF
the skill needed in the development Of the
best resources of the community. And, he
said, Nebraska must prepare her children
for agricultural work. THE day is COM
ing when agriculture will be required
subject in the schools. When the school
must do real things toward creating an
interest an ability to understand the inn
portance Of this work which is the bust
ness OF the fathers Of so many Of the child
rem, of the state, this business which will
some time be Understanding They must
be made to realize that devotion and brains
are needed for successful farming and then
we shall hear less about the boys leaving
the country to try their wits in the city,
because the boys will realize that the farm
offers them opportunities to use all their
wits"
Farmer should Demand Training.
He showed how arithmetic and all the
| studies of the school could and should be
made to develope the pupil for his real
part in life, should have definite bearing
upon his later life and especially how the
study of science might be applied to such
study as would be directly Of value In
bringing more intelligent farming. The
farmer has right to demand that his
boy be made handy for work on the
farm" and he illustrated by showing how
manual training can do this.
Another tendency which Professor Keyes
illustrated and praised was the tendency
to put more responsibility on the school
for the health Of the child, the movement
all over the country to hold the school
accountable for the physical development
Of the child. to insist that they take stock
Of the pupils physically. The matter of
eyes and the importance of eye tests that
no pupil be condemned for inattention when
| lack OF vision was responsible, Professor
! Keyes emphasized and this point had later
emphasis when N. c. Abbott. superintend-
ent of the school for the blind at Me-
braska City, spoke to the school. Mr.. Abb
/ bott correlated the methods of the public
| school and those of the school for the
| blind and called attention to the fact that
! the school at Nebraska City is for all
children whose eyesight is so bad that he
cannot attend the public schools, that 1t
is not restricted to those who are blind.
He gave the purpose OF the school as part
of the world movement to get the most
out OF ufe'' for evefyt5ody, the school
giving it's attention to training the blind to
| do this.
Miss LalIy Makes speech.
In the classes OF Miss Eleanor Lally.
who shows the teachers how to train the
pupils to get the most out Of reading and
grammar, the tendency OF modern edu-
Gators to give the school child grip on the
fundamentals was illustrated. For instance
Miss Lally told the teachers how in the
primary room 1t was important that they
teach the pupils the sound of the language
exactly, for in this beginning was based
the pupils later appreciation of literature.
/ Meanwhile down in the kitchen of the
high school Miss Gertrude Rowan was tell
ing the teachers how upon food depends the
health of the world and also telling them
what foods were good to give the person
struggling to overcome disease germs, which
in an unguarded moment the victim had
permitted to enter his system. Her cook
ing talk showed how to prepare and serve
different meats
Among the teachers listening to these
talks by experts were several Sisters of
Mercy, who were quite as interested in
j .rIaa ming rnlnts for THAR Guidance of tho