The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-03-15

ment OF an educational system is the
qualified teacher The center Of the
educational world is the teacher
The light OF his or her life is the
Transforming and Illuminating influ'
ence so essential to the opening soul
of the child. No other agent OF
agency is in any adequate way com
parable to the teacher. AS is the
teacher so is the school. Start child
ID the right direction, arouse his in.
terest, and he will be more likely to
need brake than goad.
The paddock was taken off public
school building in Kansas City a few
nights ago. Mothers and fathers and
children wers invited to spend the
evening there. There was music in
one room. In another stories were
read to entertain the children. In
another room member OF the board
OF education talked on The Recipro-
cal duties Of Teachers and Parents.
Throughout this whole country the
cities are waking up to the fact that
a great deal can be done for the i'm
provemant Of the men and women of
the next generation by very simple
methods.
Where can we better begin this i'm
proVement than in our schools and to
what better use can school buildings
be put than using them for the up
lifting of grown people as we'll as
for young people.
All is needed by each one
Nothing is good or fair alone.
The teachers need the parents CO.
operation, the parents need the teach
er's cooperation. The pupils need
both.
Teacher Freddie, you must not
laugh out loud like that in the school
room"
Freddie didn't mean to do 1t. |
was smiling when all of sudden the
smile busted"
Mesdames Locke and Lusk made
us pleasant call lately. Come again,
We are always glad to see our friends.
Misses Davis, Harnden, Harmon
tree and Swlnk consulted with US
recently on school matters. All OF
them speak we'll of their schools.
We want to thank Miss Suzanne
Ellsaesser for valient help in the OF
ice during Association week. Miss
Ellsaesser teaches in district No. 3.
Mr.. Collett called on business re-
entity. His wife accompanied him.
Mrs. Condit and Winnie were in
for a little visit one day. Winnie
started to school last year to Miss
Nora Shaw in the Wideawake dis
trict, moving away about Christmas
time to district No Is.
Mrs. Kate Rice, daughter of Grand
ma Lane, made us pleasant call just
before she left for her home in To-
peka. She has a daughter who will
graduate this year and enter the ed
ucational field as teacher. Mrs.
Rice Is one OF the old timers who
came to Seward county in 1888 and
who ran one of the first newspapers
in Seward county. She also was post
mistress when Fargo was the county.
seat We enjoyed her visit very much
at the office and at Grandma Lanes,
DR.. HigginbOtham gave us a splen-
did article to read the other day. 1t
was entitled "The Defective Child"
We wish every parent and teacher
could read this article. We will quote
brief extracts from 1t,
ut is a well known fact that back
ward children who constitute such a
drain upon the public school system
and later prove such burden to So
ciety are backward chiefly because
suffering from adnoids, enlarged ton
slls. defective eyssight or defective
hearing. All OF these can be relieved
or prevented if taken in time. 1t is
during the growing period of child
hood that such defects can best be
remedied- better in fact than
later in life, when, in fact, it is too
late to do more than partially relieve
what might have been wholly cor
rected few years before.
1.-THE solution Of the problem of
the defectiye child would therefore
seem to depend largely on the efiic-
lcncy OF the shoOl board, the school
teacher and the school physician.
AS most of the conditions that
make children defective can be de-
tected early enough and submitted to
proper care, the questions that con-
front US, not only from economic and
business standpoints, but from the
humane as we'll, are What can we do
to reduce the number of detectives
and how are we going to reach them
at an age when we can expect to &C
cOmplish the most?"
An oriental philosopher was once
asked what made him so wise. He
said; Il meyer was prevented by pride