Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-30
Shall Il Be Incorporated Into the Public School System Of
the City?---Answer Rests Largely With the Mothers
Of the Little Ones---A Visit at the Glass Room.

A visit to the kindergarten in Wa
tertown will well repay any one in
terested in the future welfare Of the
human race.
WHAT'S more interesteing, more at
tractiye, more inspiring. than a sweet
child!
al equipment, better satisfies the tired
mother than the training school into
whose charge the little tots may be
placed for two or three hours each
day!
Watertown has had the kindergar-
ten before, but hitherto it has been at
private expense. The present under
taking is somewhat experimental. If
the results prove satisfactory, and
public sentiment sustains the policy,
the kindergarten may become an es-
tablished order in the city schools, as
is the case in some of the other cities
of the northwest.
Towards Vocational Training.
1t is in keeping with the tendency
of the times, and it may be distin-
guished from the mere fad in that the
latter, for the most part, conforms
to some heeting fancy and adds but
very little to. the sum Of human ac-
conplishments.
Vocational training has become an
accepted part of the public school sys-
4 tenn in some localities, and more and
more are the people turning to it as
supplying, in part, the needs of the
generation.
Reputable statisticians tell US that
less than half dozen out of every
one hundred public school pupils ever
4 pass through the high school, while
only about seven out of every one
hundred ever reach the eighth grade.
For at least half a generation we
have been permitting our universities
and our colleges 10 dictate the currics
ulum of our public schools, notwith-
standing but so comparatively few
ever enter upon a collegiate course.
1.soup the Essential.
In music soul is an essential ele-
ment. No mechanical device vet in
vented can supply it. 1t finds its
way into the tones only through the
4 tips Of the fingers OF the performer
possessing the souIfnlness of the hui
man heart. Even the human oper-
ator lacking that quality within him
G elf cannot impart it to the tones he
produces.
The world has recognized no great
4 artist who has lacked soul. The art
of music stands not alone in this re-
spect. The men OF letters who have
q left a lasting impression upon man
y kind have been those possessing
s...soul.''
Even Our Public Schools.
K ~ As i /.
Who are the teachers whom we
best remember? Who are those
among them upon whose memories we
dwell with degree of reverence in
retrospection Of our school days?
They are the teachers possessing
4 SOUL
DR.. Frances, the head of The public
schools Of Los Angeles, Cal. in a
recent address before the meeting Of
the National Educational Association
u at st. Paul, said that he would rather
send his boy to a teacher having a
soul than to one having mere intel
lect n
Have we not had a tendency to go
mad over intellectual accomplish
ments2 Have we not been indirectly
teaching our children that the chief
s r aim IN life is to become an artist of
some sort or professor Of something
or other? M
Poetry IN Bread.
No one questions the desirabilitys
of acquiring all possible knowledge
regarding science and literature, mu-
sic and poetry, ancient and modern
history. but IT is infinitely better that
our son be taught how TO ploW and
how to sow, how 70 shovel and how
no hoe. than to be orammed with the
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