The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-03-05

the State capital for bread. 1t mlgns pe
socialism to compel them q work on our
great public domain. Then give US 60
cialism.g Germany has great farms and
other industries under government man
agement. Is not America just as cap
able?
Every man can not get Job at the
State capital or in the post office. II
they will not get out where there 10
work to be done, they should be COM
PEELED to do SO. There are many who
think they are too good for pioneer lie.
They covet the Accommodations of others.
Their early education is at fault. Here
is one of the problems of the educator.
It is better to be able to solve this PROP
lem than to become a walking encyclo-
pedia of facts. We have been shown
that the captains of industry began their
career by hanging around their chosen
work and often working at the smallest
wage that mortal ever worked for. They
mastered the business. We as teachers
must master our business in the same
way. Our industries are intimately con-
nected with the schools and more remote
" connected with the church. Mr.. Hotter
did not use the word socialism, but the
reforms he advocated were both social
istic and commendable. When we have
had -four or corn to sell, we have sent
men to foreign countries to create an ap-
petite or taste for those commodities.
Our classes in sociology spend much time
creating an interest in the present move
ment of nations. The growth OF educa-
tional thought is the most important
movement of our age and that attracting
least attention.
The organization of rural communities.
State supervision of schools and farm
for the rural teacher are subjects worthy
of consideration. Simplified spelling
would save much valuable time.
Mr.. Carlton, assistant State Supt. of
Schools, told of some things found in
common life that would not be tolerated
in the school room. He questions the
sanitary condition of hospitals and the
attitude of nurses toward patients. He
has found men more harsh with laborers
than in the home. He gives the medical
profession credit for making greater eff
fort to master their profession than
teachers do. He discussed some of the
teachers problems, like what to do with
the brightest pupil, what to do with the
dullest pupil. A representative of the
Agricultural college emphasized the club
work as stepping stone to industrial
work in schools. 1t is an attempt to put
handicrafts back where they used to be.
Thousands have been going through the
schools without learning to use their
hands.
DR.. Winship of Boston said he was
one of the few men who never had a
hobby. He advises any teacher who
thinks he is hired to teach a specified
subject to go into some other business.
He would bar that teacher from Heaven
who tries to have the boy get certain
per cent in studies. He said he once sat
up nights to invent definitions and see how
complicated he could make arithmetic.
He made them learn the definition first
and then learn to explain parrot-like.
While he formerly used his brains to
fo int
he is now working just as hard to learn
what to leave out. His brain power
might we'll be used in having national
law enacted forbidding the use of
silent letters by any printer in the
United States. He should also forbid
the use of different letters to represent
the same sound and different sounds of
the same letter. Our different ways of
representing the sounds of the human
voice are more useless than anything
they are culling out of arithmetic. These
useless embellishments of language are
held to as tenaciously as the lace on
lady's dress. The speaker said ma
pies, but boy is born with ability to see
into problems same as he is born with
musical talent. He says you might as
we'll give conundrums as problems. He
recommends play on additions and sub
stractiors in numbers and found no two
in an audience of one hundred teachers
that could recite for him in concert.
Grammariaps violate their own rules, as
when leading grammar ys::'"A prepo--
sition is no kind of word to close SEN
tence with Not many teachers get on
the front page of the Chicago Tribune
unless there is scandal.
When they were debating where it
would be desirable to have the railroad
station after Chicago had far outgrown
its present boundaries the speaker said
they were arguing for an educational