The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-28
INDIANA TEACHER
AIDS PHIL IPP|NS
Harry Bard Places School
System of the Islands
On Its Feet.
APPROACH STANDARD
STANDARD
consld ershle lkno~Iedge Is
Nov Crananed Down
the PeruvianS.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 28.-School.
master to nations. That's Harry Err
win Bard, the Indiana man who put
the school system of the Philippine
islands on it's feet When he went to
the island home there wasn't much of
an educational system in vogue In
that sunny cline. Teachers were
scarcer'n hens teeth and the kids
were playing pelota or training game
cocks. Now they're the most rabid
base ball fans in captivity and the rest
of the school system is rapidly ap-
preaching the highest American stand
ard. at runs through my head" said
Minister of Education Villaran, of
Peru, that fellow who can put edu-
cation into the Fflipinos can do the
same to u.s. And he offered the job
to Prof Bard.
Now anybody who, knows South
American in general and peru in par
ticularseknows full well that it is cas-
Ter to sdraw blood out of a turnip of
the average Peruvian. If it could be
fed to him in sugar coated pills or by
hypodermic injections your Peruvian
would fall for the three RS. But
when he has to work for it-well, it
is some tough educating that fellow.
But hard as that was, it wasn't the
worst proposition Prof. Bard had to
face. Not being so intimately ac-
quainted with the Peruvian disposi-
ton as he might have been. Prof.
Bard signed up for three years with
this Villaran person and sailed for
Lima. But while he was sailing those
Peruvian hotheads were revolving and
Prof. Bard got beautiful back view
of DR.. villaran keeping a hurry up
date in Europe. The new government
didn't banker SO much for an educa-
tional system. They allowed as how
they'd pay the professors salary all
right, but the less he bothered them
about education the better off he'd be-
But that wasn't what the schoolmas-
ter came down for and he pitched in
on the new administration and in eight
months time got them to the point
where they'd eat the alphabet and
multiplication table off his hand. Then
another revolution put the old gagn
into office and the professor started
all over again.
Taught Between Revolutions.
Between revolutions he has man.
aged to cram considerable knowledge
down the Peruvian. The kids have
got real benches to sit on. while the
politicians are getting less spending
money than they got before. And he
6s giving the country a complete, up
to-date educational system that any
nation might be proud of. The Hoos-
Ter schoolmaster's phenomenal success
with the Filipino and Peruvian en-
couraged the late Madero government
TO entertain hops of elevating the
Mexican education system with Prof.
Bard's help. Huerta and Felix Diaz
are trying to borrow money "to build
5000 new school houses" Whether
they are really anxious to educate the
poems children remains to be seen.
However, If Prof Bard tackles the
Job, Mexico will get a thoroughly
modern system OF education. The
~'schoolmaster to nations" was born
45 years ago at Wingate, Ind. He is
a graduate of Wabash college and Co.
1umbia university. Before he went to
the Philippines he was principal of
the Adams collegiate institute. Adams,
N Y. He is now in Paris, planning
further campaign to educate nations.