The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-21

awake educators everywhere in these
United States are advocating printing
as factor in public school education
WHY is 1t that well equipped print
ing rooms are beginning to appear in
progressive cities and town schools
from Lakes to Gulf and from ocean
to ocean?
TEACHERS who do their own
thinking know several answers to
and girls. Everybody ought to know
some OF the reasons.
IDEALS are changing. A good
school is no longer regarded as a
place. where spotless boys and girls
sit up in rows and refrain from whis-
pering. They must be at work.
WORK in school no longer means
"eyes on the book and learn every
word by heart" Children are no long
er condemned to ''stay in at recess
for getting spots of ink on their fin
gers or to stay after school, for drop
ping pencils They must do things
with their hands.
LIFE out OF school means doing
things that way. The best equipment
for such a life Is not secured by sit
ting with clean hands and ones head
in a book for ten years. Children
have always resented that. They must
be doing things really worth while.
BLUFF Ia not good form any more.
he tn "a hyaG q
tacks" nowadays. So long as a boy
is allowed to believe that he can de-
ceive his teacher and receive credit
for knowing lie from eli by writing a
u In the middle of these words and
putting dot over the middle of that.
just so long Is he being educated in
the wrong direction. Teachers are be-
ginning to realize this. He can't come
that game with type!
PULL has had It's day. A man now
has to deliver the goods himself So
long as boy thinks his father can
get his teacher or supervisor to give
him credits for work he never did. Just
so long he is being educated for graft.
His father can't influence the count
of job press.
BLUFF and pull are now recognized
as only smoother names for graft
Graft will soon be a thing Of the past.
II has been given it's death blow
through publicity, for which we have
to thank the types and printing press.
Nowadays a man or a boy has TO
make good" on his own merits. The
schools must teach him how through
the most useful channels.
EFFICIENCY IS the new watch
word. 1t means getting most out of
material. saving time. stopping leak
age, cutting costs. increasing output.
So long as children see that they can
scrawl on paper, dawdle, do over
and at last produce only something
for the waste basket and furnace, Just
so long they are being educated TO
ineficiency. A printing plant will
transform all that.
INFORMATION cards record
cards. report cards invitations TO
school functions. official stationery for
the principal of the school, for the
School Board. labels for school books.
notices of athletic meets. tickets, etc.
are among the real problems worked
out in schools having well equipped
printing rooms.
SUCH results are not only Of MAJ
terial value but Of educational value.
In fact, 1t would he difficult to name
another manual art which Is capable
of yielding so large. so rich and so
permanent q return In personal Gull
ture
SCHOOL publications are now be-
ginning to appear which are real
school puhlications-copy and conpo-
sition. makeup and presswork---all
done by the school children them
selves. Look At the results Note
the date OF issue and number in every
case Consider such creditable work
ar this being produced with so little
practice. Those who produce 1t must
be keeniy interested. else they could
not do It so well. Interest counts in
printing. workmen who don't care
do not produce work OF this fine
quality.
Typography as an Aid I'm the Teach
ing OF Applied Design.
DESIGN is one OF the most impor-
tant departments OF art education.
The future commercial success of the
United States depends largely upon
the cultivation of good taste through
the teaching of design in the public
schools. The competition of the flu
ture ia not to be in raw materials, but
In articles embodying elements of
beauty.
INSTRUCTION in design must not
be theoretical. but applied. The chill
dren must be taught not only to rec
ognize. but to produce beautiful
things This means that they must
handle materials, plan to meet hard
and fast conditions, work within def
mite limitations and produce fine re-
suits Notwithstanding. That Ia what
has 70 be accomplished outside OF reg
ular school hours.
PRINTING is an unrivalad field for
the teaching Of practical applied de-
sign in the schools. Brass rules will
not stretch and shrink. nor can they
be shortened. like drawn lines, by the
stroke OF an eraser. Type cannot be
squeezed suddenly. like handwriting.
20 make a word come the right
length. Ornaments will not change
\ their shape at the within Of the pu-
Dill, nor, admit the use OF after thought
in the strengthening of their lines.
Rainbow effects OF color are impos-