Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-15

school in which you can ar
rive when you like, learn what 70"
like. talk when you like. laugh "hen
YOU like, DO as you like.
Is this schoolboy's dream? NO. II
is q school right here III New 1orh
city. It's students are ordinary CHI
t:rCl, lust such az you meet every ia!
in the streets or see in she puDllc
schools its teachers are men ana
women Who differ from ordinary men
ard women only in their ideas about
hcw Dovs ard girls should be taught.
70 be srecfic. the school is al NO.
III East Twelfth street. II was start
c,l By the francesca Ferrer assocla-
ton. Il is supported by voluntary con-
trilui0ns. It's teachers are Mr.. and
Ms. Jahn Il. Cnryell and its director
IS Rayard Royesen, who Until recently
was Z professor Of Columbia unirer-
sity. says the New York World.
School having opened one morning
acknowledgement not with the ring
irg 81 y bell but simply through the
arrival Of NG. Coryell and some OF the
pupils small seyen-year-old boy, pro-
Grcci !, pudding stone" from his
nac,e', showed it to Mr.. Coryell, said
his father had told him it was sand
stcna. and asked Mr.. Coryell's opinion.
TIE teacher said it was "cOnglomer-
.tc"--so called because it was jun
bed MP mixture Of lot OF other
stores. fused together by heat.
The hoy asked how it had got the
heat This opened the way to lesson
III gcolcgy and physical geography
Some OF the ether children were in
,erestcd: some Of them not. Those who
were listened IN silence; these %ho
we're ROT did something else or talked
a...0ns themselves.
His System of Teaching.
M. Correct Traced hacl; the changes
IN the earth. told how their history is
known. described the animals. birds
and plants that lived at the success
sivc periods and Of which traces are
now found III the form o. FOSSILS.
Il Was not a lecture. lie simply an
xwcr,! questions. The boy who had
brought tie stone led all the way III
Tie voyage through the ages, and Mr.
Co:?cl mcrcl% acted as :,Uide. Some
OF tie other boys followed part Of the
way. bur ono ~ one tie" ceased to be
interested AMI turned away 10 other
tling& mat Interested them moro.
TIE little inquirer. however. grow al
i.lcSt c,:@itul with interest. And when
the journey ended hc and his guild"
wore Standing Oh the edge Of lie Arc
tx ,cJ&n. - ;hc north Gf Siberia. as
sisl,nS 1T the work OF cutting from he
ice Ike body I'll ma"mOth that had
hccn standing there frozen il Tor Tens
Of AoUSa"d> OF years. On III" way
tGey had !o;med the acquaintance Of
many 'inct boasts with names as
formidable rs their pictures.
The ioagacy had led over scvcra!
lands They had spent lie greater Part
Of the ii";" ii Siberia. and this IL.
vclvcd a few wDtt!s on the geography,
history arG government ri Russia. No
information vas given that was not
sought by questions.
Krow!cae. clcvcTy lnstilIed.
i little g;ri bro git TO school
piece Of k!nG'ns wood 10 which Il
yma!l fan.shapcd fungus still clung
She had arviG seen anything like il
before. re- had any ri those tcae.
Eicnt dwciers among whom size liz cd
Tfc chit,iycn CROW ded around "a She
exhibited The strange object and ask.
ed what it WAS
Mr. C0rycirs explanation led scvcrai
Q IN" children u Seci; further in.
formation aGoGt iurguscs. Some OF
,h2m asked II thcy were not poisonous.
One wanted to know why so many
Italians had been poisoned by them
early in the fat. iir. CorycI: said that
this was because at home n Italy they
haG been in the i:abit OF eating fun
:us which was quite harmless. bui
tnar looked almos exactly Xix" one
found here in America that was dead
~ poison.
As they we're talking about H3Oi a
boy sad that some one had odd hin,
;itat PAPER vas made from wood. but
he did no; believe il. The teacher De
@cribrd hiw wood is ground into pulp
ard pressed ont into narer, and he
added:
\f4 have necktle made OF
wood.
y chorus asked hin 10 show II iG
them The following day nc wore
the cfavat. ono of those Of woven wood
fiber that 50 closely initiate silk lie
took j. OFF and passed ii around the
class. Til" little fingers felt it and The
curious eyes scrutnized il closely
The tca"hev explained how il vas
inade. lie went on 10 tell Of o'hc!
strange Gses for wood aud paper. That
the latter Il pressed into car wheels
seemed ~ strike the children as only
less extraordinary than that Tie TO-.
uier should be made into necktes
Methods Of Mrs. Coryeil. ~
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