The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-06-01

UOl dS SOOu do III Doyh 49,
1928 the chairman of the board Of
appropriation made similar claim
and SO on until few years since
when Mayor Fitzgerald made the
identical statement We know we
have magnificent set of schools
about thirty years behind us and we
prove il by calling attention to our
selves as having been produced by
them"
lie then called to mind number
of things that were Invariably taught
in those days-such as learning the
namys of all the states and their
capitals and Tearing to bound the
states
lie contends that You frequently
find people complaining of the schools
because they ask the pupils questions
they can't answer, when the pupils
in turn could douh'l SIS ask them a
thousand they couldn't answer.
He urged that the fundamentals,
adding, subtracting, multiplying and
spelling be taught until they become
a habit, formed by continual drill.
The old schools gave more time
to drilling We use studies that
will d -velop a Judgment to meet the
complexities of life. The schools
have attempted to substitute 4 drill
for training the judgment We wish
to develop the ability Tor forming
judgment when faced wifi a new cri-
sis the mind must not be tied up
with habit, but have the initiative
to succeed The pupils of our schools
are more subject to criticism at If
or IS than they are at %"
lie then made a personal appeal
for the state university, saying that
it is ours in the same sense that the
high school is ours.
He spoke of the parents from
other states, who move to Oklahoma,
and when their children are ready
for the university send them back
to the old states. lie reminds them
that no matter what they feel they.
can never make their children any
thing but Oklahomans.
lie closed his address by calling the
attention of his audience to the five
facts that education in our schools
should accomplish the forming of
habits, of judgment of ideals, of
right living of ideals of human SER
vice. making the child useful to both
himself and the community, and of
forming character-a strong honest
Christian character and put
ting to useful service the education
they have acquired.
The high school orchestra repeated
the hunting scene by request and
were stormed with applause.
Hon. J. A. Bass delivered the eighth |
Grade diplomas. He said in part:
IF it be true that all life is a
stage and the people actors thereon /
and that life is divided into seven |
acts. then you are through with the !
first division Of the second act, where |
the schooIboy, with a scowl and .
satchel and shining morning face has |
rudged unwillingly to school, and .
the work of the grade school is now
A memory. About the happiest event
in childs life is the day it starts
to school, and the greatest event is
not when the grade school is COM
pleted or graduation day has come,
but it is when the first four years
have passed and the little boys and
little girls have become boys and
girls, when they take their first step
n going on to manhood and march
lp stairs in the school house and the
word little" is dropped forever.
Them comes the days of fractions,
proper and improper, decimals and
percentage, the rule of three and the
louble rule of three, Sistory of the
states and nation, and four lonS tire
some years of weeping and wailing
md gnashing of teeth, little appre-
,iating that the slow, but sure, pro-
,ess of evolution is taking place, and
hat the foundation for higher study
md more books is being laid
For life is just one thing after an
,tker, and each act and deed of life
he preparation for the next act and
Iced, for from cradle to the grave
S but 4 preparation for = life eter
lal to come, so the first eight years
VI school life is but the preparation 4
or the high school, as the high
chool is to college, and college for
veil equipped men and women, and
he entrance into the great university
II hard knocks, which is rubbing
houlder to shoulder WITH your fell
ow man. standing up in the world
nd battling with It, and then comes