Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-02-28

ture, horticulture, animal husbandry,
dairying and home economies; each
spring it sends out a school on
wheels--a train equipped for the
teaching of agriculture, horticulture
and home economics; each year it
makes educational exhibits at all the
principal fairs and shows, and each
year it sends out farmers institute
workers to preach the gospel of bet
ter crops, better farm homes and
better living.
Our three normal schools, founded
at about the same time that the State
College was established, and located
at Bellingham, Ellensburg and Che
ney, have had varied experiences.
but despite the ravages of fire and
the unfayorable wind of popular
opinion, which deplores the mainte.
nance of three institutions which du-
| plicate the work of each other, they
have grown and are doing great work
in standardizing the degree of eff
cheney required in the teachers of
the state. We may get some idea
| Of the trend of education in the
Northwest today by noting the
courses that are being emphasized in
the nomal schools. Manual train
ing, woodwork, agriculture, sewing,
cooking, and play-these are the
practical subjects which are being
taught along with the three RS"
of our own childhood days. The nor
NAL schools are aiding in the estab-
lishment of the model rural districts,
where the proper correlation of
| classes in an ungraded school, the
arrangement of a flexible program
| for daily work, limited amount of
dom este science, manual training
and agriculture, the hot lunch, i'm
proved school grounds, suitable play
| apparatus, and the social center idea
are being tried out.
The state is not narrow in its
conception of education, for it pro-
yides not only for those whom nature
has endowed with unimpaired facul-
| ties for making their way in the
world, but also for those who are at
disadvantage because of some
physical defect. The School for the
Deaf and Blind is located at Van
couver, and the School for the Fee
BILE Minded at Medical Lake. There
are at present 122 children in the
School for the Deaf, where the
course follows closely that of the
public schools. Not a single grad
uate of this novel and most beneficial
institution has ever been in Jail or
In the poorhouse-a record which
none of our institutions of higher
learning can equal.
AT Chehalis is located the State
training School, where boys between
the age of and IS are committed
Tor unruly behavior. 1t has a farm
OF zoo acres, scientifically managed
by a State College graduate, where
the boys find plenty of work to do
and where much of the food for their
subsistence is grown.
The State Reformatory is con-
Quoted on the principle of the re-
formative value of education, and
inmate work is required on all sorts
OF constructive work - barbering.
baking, laundering, boot and shoe
repairing, nursing, and, in fact, ev-
erything that pertains to the life of
those confined there. f. F. Nader,
OF, was appointed director of edu-
cation at the reformatory January
/, 1912.
Not the least of the educational
factors of the state are the large pri-
Vate schools, such as Whitman,
Gonzaga, Whitworth, and Spokane
Colleges, and the University of Puget
sound. The business college, which
mas been the means of furnishing
night schools for many ambitious
workers, also occupies a prominent
place.
IL was only a little over a year
ago that the State Inspector of High
schools, Mr., Edwin Twitmeyer. re-
ported that The school situation in
the state of Washington is exceed
ingly full of hope and encourage
ment- With the character and in
telligence of her people and with her
marvellous resources now in a pro-
cess of rapid development. there is
no reason why she should not rank
among the very foremost education
ally"
Just a few weeks ago came the re-
port of the division of education of
the Russell Sage foundation that
The schools of the state of Wash
ington are the most efficient in the
nation" This bureau in making "a
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