The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-23
NEW IDEAS IN EDUCATION.
by FREDERIC j. HasKIN.

to cost only Eve cents. Some FIVE
hundred lunches are served each day,
and the business is supporting.
Much of the work is done by the girls
In the cooking classes. who are paid
for their services.
Young America will hail Inspector
James L. Hughes, of Toronto. as a
modern John the Baptist crying in
the wilderness OF education. lie pre-
diets the bookless school. He thinks
that each child must be taught by a
different method, and that the whole
thing must be done by the teacher.
Other educators are being converted
to the idea that the best learning
fer the child comes not from books
but from the minds Of good teachers
Chicago's new woman superinten-
dent of schools. Miss Ella tlagg
Young. has inaugurated many new
departures in school work since she
assumed the reins OF school govern
ment One of these innovations is TO
secure the consent of factory owners
Ia the employment of boys In pairs,
one boy to work one week and the
other the next. In this way the fac
tory suffers no depletion In It's force,
while the boys are enabled to go to
school In this way many poor
family in Chicago can send its boys
to school, the while having an in
come from their work. The children's
playground movement has reached its
highest success In Chicago, where
S58e.600 is spent each year New
York second among the cities In total
expenditure. gives only $123,0Oe TO
Fairgrounds. Chicago gives as much
10 the playground movement as all
the other important cities together.
Some enc has been gathering
statistics concerning college and non
college women More than GPS, 900
random inquiries were sent out ana
answers received thereto. 1t was found
that college women have better
health than non-coliege women, 77S
out of each thousand enjoying eN-
cellent health, and only eight out OF
each thousand being in poor health.
The average college woman was found
To marry later in life. but her family
IN slightly larger than that of the nom
college woman. The former also has
the advantage Of the non-coilega wo-
man In height and weight, due per-
haps to her athletics, On the ether
hand, college men are less inclined
10 marry and have smaller families
than non-College men. Statistics OF
Harvard graduates show that training
there furnishes the young man with q
/ kiuti of arrrror ugutust Dan Cupid s
darts, and that in most cases this
! fagts for HtTmbrr Of years,
Perhaps the two most learned boys
I IN tt1e tinted States are both SONS of
Harvard professors. The work of
young William James Sidis. who rat
ties off phtlosophic discussions OF the
fourth dimension. and other things
no less involved. with the ease of a
Mohamm saying his prayers. re
Gently passed the Harvard entrance
examination. He finds rival In Nor
/ bert Weiner, who graduated last sum
mer from Tufts College while still
on the sunny side of fifteen. At
rtshtcrn months mr. knew tho rfpfrn~
bet, at three years he could read and
write. and by tho time he was ten
he could give the average high school
graduate q tight educational wrestle.
At twelve he entered Tufts College
and found ii easy sailing. finishing
the -four years course in three years.
With all his education he has not lost
his boyish love for sports and ath-
ictics.
TOMORROW:
Growth OF the Telephone.