Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-09
RADICAL CHANGES.
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Agricultural colleges were so theOret-
| zeal that they do not teach the common
service of the farm.
The Carnegie Foundation was at
tackled by one speaker as the greatest
monopoly in the world. Conservation OF
natural resources courses We're sug-
| gested for High schools and schools
| were advocated for 14-year- old
store and factory workers. while the
| suggestion WAS also made and well
| supported that the compulsory school
age be fixed at 16 years.
when graduates entering Normal
schools do not know naples from elms
or robbins from English sparrows, the
biology of tho administration OF the
High schools is remiss.'' said c. H
Robinson of the New Jersey State Nor
NAL School, Montclair. n. J.. before the
department. of science.
The cry back to the land is as old
as Adam. according to Anna T.. Harvey
of the Adelphia College. BROOKLYN, n
Y. addressing the kindergarten de-
partment.
Ever since he was driven cat of the
Garden Of Eden" she said man Las
been longing tc get back to the soil.''
Our present system of teaching has
produced a Iuxuriant crop of spineless
and animated nobodies," declared
James NJ. Greenwood. superintendent
of schools of Kansas City, Mo.
THE real wealth of the nation is in
it's people" said F.. Park Lewis, Md.
OF Buffalo. ~ Y, before the depart
ment of special education. 1.-The gov
erning power Of tomorrow is the boy
of today. When we fail to rouse him
to his highest efficiency. we rob the
nation of its potential worth. I'm
corrected eye defects give the appear
ance of stupidity. 1t is an economic
error to leave these defects un correct
ed"
when every deaf child in America
can understand what a person says
from his shadow on the wall. and can
be understood by every English -spe ak
ing person said Harris Taylor before
the same department.. 1--WE have done
all that can be expected of an oral
school"
"Janitors are half OF the problem of
hygiene, backward children and school
fatigue" said DR.. Helen c. Putnam of
Providence, before the department of
science education. No good home
maker has the dirty floors and atmo-
sphere with which we shut in children
and instructors. There is no greater
need in vocational. continuation, or
trades schools than classes for janitors
of schools, apartment houses, office
buildings. Pullman porters and street
car conductors and hotel managers.
There is nothing low minded about
hard mental work done in order to i'm
prove ones chances of earning a good
LIVELIHOOD, whether in overalls or
apron or street Clothes declared
Charles w. Eliot. president emeritus
of Harvard, in his address before the
closing session of the National Edu-
cational Association Convention this
evening. american society,"" he said,
has gotten over the idea that the
gentleman can have no other occupa-
ton than that OF soldier, priest OF
land owner"
President Eliot's subject was The
Value During Education of a Life
Career Motive" He urged the intro
duction of new organizations like con-
tinuation schools and trades schools.
The other speaker of the evening was
Mrs. w. n. Mutt, of Raleigh, n. c..
chairman of the Womans branch OF
the Farmers Institute work of North
Carolina.
Her subject was Education Of Wo-
men for Home Making"