Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-09
EDUCATION OF FUTURE

EDUCATION OF FUTURE
mia Wheeler Wilcox in the Woman's Ma
tional Daily.
obust and healthy children are
NOW attracting attention., because they
have been reared on scientific princi-
SS3111es.
sI&EOne is a lad whose father is a pro.
4Aesor in Harvard; and he is an INTEL
snActual marvel; knowing sciences and
languages and the lore of graybeards.
while yet in his teens.
old, and she speaks many languages.
has already a better education
most college graduates.
sTNThe parents of these two children
~ that he result has been obtained
~ systematic training OF the children,
TS4fom the very first year of birth.
%Ef Nothing useless was taught either
the boy or the girl; no time was
wasted In meaningless play, but time
nc PLAY were directed to educational
ENDS.
The writer recalls seeing a child
3 some years ago whose father
had begun to train him on similar
Mines.
ME he was made to listen to the scale
Ind major and minor chords of music.
a%sTgaese were played several times dur.
aaSy the day while the child was
awake, and the different colors We're
ESs6lsplayed for a brief before
Hkls eyes.
M%N When the boy was old enough to
play with blocks, he was trained from
start to form mathematical COM
#Rbinations, and in a brief time he had
an elementary knowledge of
of addition. subtraction and
multiplication.
His ear was marvelously exact in
music, and his color sense was highly
developed.
But the boy did not know that he
was learning. He thought he had
been playing all this time.
"a vast amount of time has been
lost, as we'll as other harm done to
children, by Mother Goose Tales
nonsense rhymes.
Historical facts, important dates
n principles n ideas can be
taught children BY setting them to
hitting music and putting them into
N 1ingling rhymes.
A child may as we'll learn that CO.
lumbus discovered America in 1892, or
some fact connected with science or
history, as to learn that Richard and
Robert were two young men who went
10 bed When the clock struck 10; and
the story of Benjamin Franklin. or
abraham Lincoln, might be made just
ms amusing, IL properly told. as that OF
i1the man who jumped into the rambl
bush or the cow that jumped over the
moon.
) There are a hundred historical
characters who would afford better
material for good stories than Red
Riding Hood, and leave the child in
Nterested and not trembling with fear
\ after they were told.
These children who are now at
tracting the attention of the scientific
world by their intellectual achieve
ments are the pioneers In a wonderful
new filed of education, which will even-
tually be cultivated and yield a great
harvest.
The time will come when the gov
aernment will provide nursery schools
and capable teachers, who will train
the baby minds in all directions and
lead the play, and the sports, and the
daily conversations of children to such
advantageous ends that they will
know more at 10 years of age than
most of our Harvard and Nassar stu
dents know when they graduate.
Besides education the children will
possess a harmonious development.
They will nave musical taste. They
will be able to discern delicate shad-
ings in colors. They will be linguists
And all these things will have been.
Fained with no loss of vital force and
Without sacrificing health or bodily
development to study.
If you are a parent, you can dc
much toward helping your children to
be well informed by directing you
conversation to such ends when you
are with them.
The libraries are full OF good books
Mpf history and travel. Read a little
gsSs55every day, and when YOU are with
MXyour children instead of talking of
2 &SSSfnothing. or worse than nothing: in
Wstead of allowing them to gossip
1sskabout their schoolmates or to hear you
sagossip about your neighbors. lead them
talk with you and to listen to you
% while you converse OF interesting people
@ who made history.
Biographies of great men and WON.
en- are excellent reading for you, AND
& excellent topics for conversation.
S If YOU know any language besides
SM English. begin to teach it to your
RaSN children when they first learn to talk.
8M9 It is a mistake made by foreigners
to ignore their native tongue in speak
ing with their children. A young man
born of German parents was lleverthe-
less obliged to learn all his German ir
s# college, because his parents wanted to
feel that they were bringing up Il thor
5Hs Ough American, since his was the
sA country of their adoption. and having
left the old world, they wanted to leave
sE Its language. 1t is a great mistake.
Life is short; youth is short; waste
no hours OF it in senseless or viciou:
talk. The world is full of interesting
sS%& amusing. entertaining facts; they cal
~! as utter nonsense. Try to impart some
l5B T%s of these worthwhile things to you
children in their songs, games n con
sNN versatiOn.
A Tho Ruling voice.
EM From Harper's Bazaar.
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