El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-21
Begin Teaching In Infancy
The MOntessOrf System Gives Ideas
which Enables Children OF Years
to be laugh; Little Interviews.
THE education of children at home
was under discussion hro,,crh+

THE education of children at home
was under discussion. brought
up by some Of the recently much
talked about child prodigies who are
ready to enter college at an age when
other children are only thinking about
entering High school. @All of these re-
narkable children have been the chill
dren Of college teachers in some cases
OF generations of college teachers
the Villas school. IF children are TO
be educated at home, on the new idea
that the child's definite training should
DeSln from infancy, it would mean
that we would have to first educate all
the mothers. Then such plan would
mean that the mothers entire time
would have to be given to the child
Tor Such a plan can only be carried out
successfully by having some one watch
the child, directing its every move and
1 do not think that there would be
many mothers that would be willing or
able to do this The MOntessOri system
provides ideas along this line. In the
MOntessOri schools in italy some OF
the children are as young as two years.
but they have the children eight hours
day In our schools some children
come to US who have been taught at
home and go straight ahead with their
WORK Others come whom we have TO
teach all over again. and their home
learning really holds the child back I
know when I was first grade teacher
have no home schooling, because then
the children could all go forward to-
Sether- OF course in other things than
the school work IL is invaluable to 4
child to have broad Intellectual fam
1y- The home life. the topics that are
discussed, the books that are read all
have great educational influence on
the child 4Ou can tell the calling OF
the father, by the kind OF knowledge
the boy has For instance one of our
httle fellows IS the son Of former
professor That boy Knows everything
that appears in each Literary Digest.
Another boys father is a banker, and
the little boy can tell all about every
banking question that is current But
Tor the mothers or parents to replace
the schools would mean first a gen.
eral training for the parents"
'T think the city of FL Paso should.
schools located in the chamber Of COM
merce. said professor r J. Tighe. su-
perlntendent- 1t is lust as important
TO nave a school exhibit as il is to ex-
hlbit the different industries of a city
When prospective citizen looks into
the advantages of a city with the idea
wants to know is what kind OF school
system does that city possess The
chamber of commerce will give the
schools 700 square feet of space in the
chamber in which TO install an exhibit
and 1 think we should take advantage
of the offer"
Much interest is being shown by out
of town people IN the specie. trair 10
be run from FL Paso duriEzs the Phoe-
nix road race for auto enthusiasts"
says Robert H Rinehart. chairman Of
the racing committee OF the Auto club.
we have had inquiries from Roswell.
Las Cruces and Maria Concerning the
train, which will leave hero for the
Arizona capital the morning OF the race
Nearly 100 persons have signified their
intention of making the trip and we
necessary to secure special train