Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-13
Hoosier SehoOlnfasters Have a
Unique System for Teaching
Rising Generation
IBy Latest MALL

! CHICAGO. Gary, the wonder city
built by the biggest corporation injtht
! world fosexempIify the latest methods
ssof sefficiency III the manufacture O
steel, Il fast becoming more famous fol
the demonstrztion made there by Z
HOosier sehoolmaster of efficiency II
the manufacture of citizens.
An educational plant which will han
alestWice as much raw material boys
and girIs-a as the ordinary public
school; which runs at full capacity
| ~ months in the year and is not shut
down two months every summer;
which works until $40 o'clock every
evening and Saturday morning as
wei, with q night crew on most o.
the year; a plant which turns out bet
ter goods at less cost than any other
in the eountryi
No school teacher in Gary eyer
says, Johnny. go tofyour desk!" John.
ny has no desk. Each pupil has q
locker, in which is stored all his school
impediments. Johnny is lin" no par.
ticnlar room or grade, where single
weary teacher drills him In reading,
spelling. arithmetic, and all the other
branches The educational plant at
Gary Is divided into departments, in
each of which only a single branch is
taught, and that by a specialist who
teaches nothing else.t e
When one class In arithmetic has
finished its recitation it moves on to
the football field or the shops and an
other class comes in to FIJI the aritf-
metic room. BY keeping the classes
constantly moving in this way from
one department to another Mr.. Writ
Is able to handle twice as many pupils
as under the old system.
The Fairgrounds, the class rooms,
the workshops are always filled with
busy pupils. There is no lost time, no
lost motion. The plant is never shut
down. Glass rooms, Fairgrounds, and
shops are always in use. The ordi
nary public school house is closed half
the time.
Gary children are required to at
tend school only 10 months in the
year. ~ But they may take their long
vacation at any time in the year. If
course at the university, that can be
arranged II the pupils parents want
him to stay out in October and No
Tember II will not affect his standing.
The plant is always read to pick him
mp where he left off.
BY adopting some of Mr.. Wirt's
plans the public schools of New York
are this year taking care of 10000
children who last year we're crowded
out because there was no room for
them. Philadelphia has offered the
Hoosier schoolmaster $4,000 a year
to cone down there and show them
how to make their public schools eff
ffcient In Is public schools in Chi
cago many of the Writ ideas of eff
cheney are this year being put into
force. kanEas City has had men in
Gary studying the new methods. The
public school system Of the whole
country is feeling the impulse.
Nowhere else in the world is there
an educational plant like the great
Froebel school in Gary. Housed IN
der the roof of that enormous three
story building are departments for the
kindergarten, grammar grades, high
school, and two years of college work,
to say nothing of comulete techn;
cal school, where, under the direction
of trade union masters, are taught
practically all the important trades
for both boys and girls.