Evening journal., 1912-05-24
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NEW YORK, May PA teacher
Of English in the public schools. who
has become a little exasperated with
some of the American boys in his
charge and their refusal to follow
any of the ancient rules and customs
of English writing. has recently call
ed attention to the wonderful and
fearful examples of English as she
is wrote" in the highest grade Of the
grammar school,
A boy. Is years old in Grade SB,
which is Just one year below the high
school. has given evidence that he
has not yet distinguished between
our" and "are" and the plural sub
ject with the singular verb is In no
wise despised by him. The past OF
tell" is here written as "telled," and
the past Of pass is pasted AS
for the thought in his essays, It might
be considered childish for a much
younger pupil The. author OF the
essays is an American boy, who has
lived here all his Is years.
Here is his discussion of the great
Are All Men Equall
In our history text book we have
copy OF the Declaration Of Independ-
ence. On Page II We read that "all
men are created equal" and that
their Creator has given them the
right to life liberty and the pursuit
of happiness
Let us see what all this means.
In are History book 1t says that
all men are equal. I should say that
they are not equal, some are fat and
some are skiny, and some are tall
and some are small. AS I am looking
around the class rooms, / should say.
that all men, and boys are not equal
some boys do their lessons and some
don't. There are men rich and men
poor some men are very kind, and
some are not The rich. people, some
Of them was poor. and once, some OF
the poor was rich once.
when some of the rich men went TO
school, they got a-a on their reported
card, and they are way up in the
world. The poor men, some of them,
l should say most Of them, when
they went to school, they got &C, or
they just pasted. If anybody telled
me that all men are equal, will not
believe them"
When it comes to description. s.
even more unusual styles are found in
the same author This Is a verbatim
reproduction of his essay on Our
Geography Picture:"
This is a Masterpiece.
AS We were reading are geography
! this morning, we came across two
pictures, and they represent. Low
class and High class In the first
picture, its represent a country in
Spain. In the picture there are a
great many cork trees, and they are
men cutting the bark off This bark
is cork, IL is cut off very even, and
is lay on the ground one on top OF
the other. Along side Of one Of the
tree is man with a cane in his hand
and he seen to be given order, to the
men working. After these tree is
strip of all its bark, about a short
time after. they is new bark on il
Out of these bark. they make cork
and these are put in bottle. and etc.
In the other picture, Is a scene n
France, you can see off in a distant,
ship with it's sail set, and IL seen 4
be coming toward us. A little furthe
down. it a windmills, In the front o
the Is a vineyard. It is situated OF
a little hill. a little way to the right
is a river, I think il is the Garonne
as We learn in are geography. tina
the river pasted thought France
where the vineyard are. In the pic
ture, there are a wagon, and on tn,
wagon is two big barrels, and there
are three men, one is in the wagon
and one is handing up basket o
grapes and he is putting it in the bar
rels, the other man is carrying tn,
basket to the wagon. There are alsC
women working. in the field Ar,
teacher say, That they are better of
working in the field then in factories.
To the left is a road and on tn,
road, in a man and lady. they seer
to be looking back I should say tha
they are the owners, because the mar
is all dressed up. with a high hat
= and the lady is also dressed up"
The teacher of English, in calm,
attention TO these essays. said tha
the writer had been steadily pro
NOTED.
With all our great machinery fo
u free education" he said, do we reall-
educate? The essays bring up man,
school questions Why was this DO,
promoted, and whee is to be dom
with him and boys like him?"