The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-04-06


cases the teachers themselves lack
proper training, and the equipment
is of the poorest kind. Every rural
school should be provided with a
good library for the benefit of both
the school and the community.
The acquisition of knowledge from
books is necessary, but this book
knowledge does not in itself consti-
tute an education, far from it. We
need an educational system which
fits a boy or girl to earn a living;
creates a desire for more knowledge;
makes civic duty plain, and teaches
him or her the fundamental princi-
Piles of universal brotherhood.
At present a very large per cent of
the business and professional men.
including statesmen, especially
through the South and West, are men
who were reared on the farm, or
came from the workshops of towns
and villages. The indications are
that very large per cent of the
leaders of the future will come from
the same sources. Therefore it is
necessary that the children in the
rural schools should receive better
training than is being given them
now
Many of the ablest men of today
have been hampered by lack of early
training. and nothing can take the
lplace of this lost training. If the
state wants it's citizens to be success.
full, prosperous, and happy in the
future. it must no longer neglect the
early training OF those who are to
bring about the conditions which will
accomplish the desired results.
Our best teachers should be sent
to the rural schools; earnest, pro-
gressive men and women, capable of
| Introducing into the work qualities
which will arouse the young people
enthusiasm and set them thinking
and investigating along new lines OF
endeavor
| The country presents ideal condi-
lions for the study of nature, and yet
how many children are taught the
real fundamental facts of nature, un-
folding themselves all about them
The perennial miracle of plant life Is
SO common, and SO constantly before
them, that they fail to see or take
note of it. An intelligent presenta-
ton of this wonderful fact of resur-
rected life, will arouse in the minds
! Of the children new lines of thought
and send them forth with eager feet
to make new discoveries
| The attention of the children
should be directed to the wise provi
sion made by trees and hardy plant.
for the coming OF winter, as, at the
first hint of the changing season
they begin to store up carbon, with
drawing from the leaves what tn.
tree needs for its support during the
winters cold, and, by the withdraw
of the sap, hardening and protecting
the limbs and branches.
Such study naturally leads to tn,
[study of animals, and natures pro
vision for their protection during TIL
winter months las illustrated by tn,
, migration of birds, etc. The topic
lare endless. Thus the children ma,
, be taught to realize that the who'll
universe is a great, LIVING, thinking
? feeling thing.+and back of it all i
1.-THE One Life, throbbing and pulsiny
, through it.
Il With intelligent thought, right
t presented, the farm can be shown t
| lbe such wonderful store-house O
: marvellous things-that the boys an,
{ girls will forget the cities with thei
!. glittering allurements, in their in
$ tense interest in things right a
e hand.
i The School Social Center present
: the opportunity. The schoolroom
should be thrown open for all kind
] of meetings OF an uplifting character
. including social functions, hollda
deliberations, lectures. musicals, etc.
Certain branches of domesti
science should be given a place i
d every country school curriculum
g Few. country housewives have eve
e been taught efficient dress-makins
= Why not employ a sewing-teacheI
o from some nearby city, who under
stands her work thoroughly, to Civ
n a series of lessons at the School Sc
II cial Center. the classes to be attend
8 led by both mothers and daughters?
IL While most farmers wives are e,
o ,cellent cooks, few understand foo
n values, or food hygiene. This branc
k lof domestic science should b
Thoroughly taught by an expel
= dietician.
II Then why not hold neighborhoc
n fairs and exhibitions, where. bot
domestic arts, and farm products ma
Is be displayed, thus arousing increase