New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-02-07
Educational Notes.

Educational Notes.
; The EDITOR Of the Tracy Herald
!, sending out the Financial ststemel
last week took advantage OF Ii
/ occasion TO give vent 70 his feeling
on tho matter Of our present schoe
system. He ssys:-'sWith THE issu
We send out the financial statement G
our county and It should 30 especial]
interesting as.this particular time
when every property owner IL OK
perfencihg great difficulty In maxim,
both ends meet besides being Gale,
upon to pay tho highest tax rate tia
has been imposed upon 10 since Il
organisation Of the city. The tables
10 the statement show the rate o
taxes for the various purposes and Il
will be seen that there IL little or NJ
increase in the municipal rate but tn,
state and school tax has expanded
greatly. This can DO accounted TO,
somewhat by the efforts of on,
machine politician to operate our
institutions of learning. with : view OF
turning out . little better grade OF
machine politicians, some LAWYERS,
doctors, dentists and football pls yers,
together with an occasional instructor
for the farmers institutes or civil
engineer for the Hill railroad system.
Our taxes will climb until there is an
awakening with regard TO our educa.
tional system, and thanks to q few of
our more thoughtful educators it
looks now as if that time had about
arrived"
This is q rather extreme view of the
situation, but the abuses are many
and strong words sometimes help to
stir people to much.needed action.
There are but few papers nowadays
that are not making some sort of pro-
test against the kind of education our
schools are furnishing and out of so
much discussion and exchange of
opinion some lasting good is bound to
come. and when we find flaws in the
system it is not merely for the sake of |
knocking" that we point them out,
'ut because We look forward eagerly
% the time when more rational form
IT education will take the place of
much that is useless and clogging in
'ur schools OF today.
We spent long years in the school
Dom, q part of the system, and We
now how hopeless task It is for
eacher to attempt alone to get away
rom the drive and grind that crush
in both teacher and
upi;. Being out Of it and away from
has not lessened our interest and
10 establishment of Francisco Ferrer .
chools and other rational schools
here individuality is Developed, to
ur mind, 10 but the first gun Il the
ampsign to educate the child along
mes that will broaden and strengthen
i'm and make more worthy the
inns of those who are sent out from :
ur educational institutions to gain q
velihood. If reform ever comes in
alters of social concern it must come
'ru the proper education of the
'ming people. The movement is =
'cessarily slow, but public sentiment =
steadily growing in favor of radi- :,
i change. If this change comes y
'adually it is the more likely to be =
'luable and enduring. It should be
matter Of evolution rather than
volution for then each new feature
ded can be tested and tried before a.
ing adopted. Meantime, all should - -
interested AID show it. at
The pareot, who, next to his &C
lldren, is most vitality concerned A
es not as rule realize the short ~ ~
nlngs OF the system that grasps and N
Ids his children during all their
st impressionable years. He just
'urally thinks the school specialists 7.
'w what is best. School specialists
about ready to admit there are n
evous faults to be corrected and
y 10 the time for parents to take . :.
I'd In planning better things for tho n
ire. ~
he board of education of St. Peter w
added commercial arithmetic to
course in the public school accord II
to the Herald Of that city. It
% q long time to get SLOW town to Pa
ken, and this is not written for .
spsper controversy or other reason TT,
might he aasi0ned al a loo.,o mi