The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27
Marking Of Recitations and
Question Exams Declared
Insane BY Educator
PRES|DET Of DENVER SCHOOL
BOARD MAKES STATEMENT
BeFsted Principles and Teachers for
Accepting tho System q 4 Neces.
aaFy Evil-Voca&donal Me4fods N.
Urged by Him Before Nsaou,l
Educational Association.

st. Louis. Feb. 27.-':rhe most Inc
sane educational idea that has spread
from college down to the f,rst xrade
is the idea that q teacher with fortY
cniidren can ask q question. call on .
eatld to fecite. grade the pupil. & o.
10. keep this UP for ave or ten months
ana then present an array Of questions
to be answered and graded In lilo
manner and let the dnal addition of
these results determine the child'e
knowledge and fitness for promotion"
90 said D. e. Phillips. president Of the
Denver board of education this morn.
ing IN addressing the department Of
cational association OF ''the Child W,
Promotion Machinery" Continuine.
President Phillips berated the princi.
Pies and teachers who say such q
thing 10 . necessary evil" Finally Z
must maintain the child should ct ail
times be at work In the Grade ana In
the subjects he can get the most out
o. witnout regard to what he knows
or does not know about the studies be.
mind him. and without regard to how
much more OF less he knows than 9th,
er pupils"
TWO meetings and . banquet were
attended last night by the deleKates Ia
the special sessions Of aniliated or.
gantzations Of the association. The
BANQUET was in honor OF DIR. p. p,
C!axton. United States Commissioners
OF education. with the national com.
mittee on education and departments
OF national education association ~
hosts.
DR.. claxton spoke on the relation Of
the federal government to education
ana the interest Of the nation in edu.
cation for service.
John H. Francis. superintendent OF
tne Los Angeles. Cal. schools advo.
Gated the abolishment Of summer va.
cations at the session Of the national
council of education. He also urged
that less attention be paid to the edu.
cational problems and more to the at.
mosphere that surrounds the child.
Speaking on health problems DR.,
Thomas D. Wood. Professor of physi.
cal education Tea ac1ers Colese Goiula-
ofa untversity. declared the most i'm
portant Of all our national resources
Is health. The most valuable asset
in our capital OF national vitality is
the health of the children. he con.
tinued. He then cited statistics show.
Ing that seventy-fve per cent Of the
school children In this country need
attention for physical defects which
are partially or completely remedial
The general subject of the last
nights session was health problems
and the papers read on the subject
included those by William H Allen,
director OF bureau of municipal re-.
search. New York city: DR.. j. N. Hur.
ly. president of the American Public
Health association, indianapolis, ana
DR.. R. ". Corwin Of Pueblo. Colo.
This years book of the national 20.
ciety for the study Of education was
the subject discussed by that organi.
zation. Vim. c. Bagley OF the Univer.
sity Of Illinois. the president. deliver.
ed bis annual address. Richard ].
Crosby, specialist in agricultural edu.
cation OF the department Of agricul.
ture. made a plea for state aided dc.
partrnents In public high schools ana
concluded by exclaiming that state
aid greatly stimulates the Introduction
Of agriculture, homo economies and
farm mechanics and contributes ma.
terially to the success and permanence
Of high school work."
United States Commissioners claxton
met the state superintendent Of
schools twice today and discussed the
preparation OF uniform cost sheets
which it is expected will be universal.
ly used in all schools Of the country.