Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-21
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l think it would be difficult to find any point at
which. in our largest cities, a dollar will go further
in the making Of those things for which the city
exists than in the provision and maintenance Of play
grounds. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, PHI. d.
Play counts for, morals, for it is in our play that
we choose things according to our character, and by
choosing we make our character.
-. Elmer Ellsworth Grown, Phi. D.
If had to take my, choice for my own caild, in
one Of our large cities, between a school without a
playground and a playground without a: school, l
would choose the playground. :
DR.. Woods Hutchinson.
One good playground in Chicago will do more to
prevent the great white plague OF consumption than
all the physicians in the city.
r.: DR.. Henry Baird Tavill.
We seem sometimes to have forgotten that the
an Of school and college is not primarily learning,
but the development Of strong, well-balanced men
aud women who can bear the burdens and do the
work 81 heir own place in life and meet the emerg.
eucra Of a complex civilization. The chief business
of the lover grades (below High SclloO) should be
to promote healthy physical growth. The body OF
the young boy or gill demands more care and atten-
ton than the mind. Pulmonary, rather than cerebral,
capacity is the best promise of. future usefulness.
Playground, garden and gymnasium can help more
than desk and recitation. Both are needed, but the
physical: IL first; afterwards: that wliclis mental and
spiritual. Professor Tyler.
Playing, the child grows Observation-Disclosures
there is; nothing in the whole range OF schooling that
Is as educational. jacob Riis.
1t is during leisure, rather than during work lime,
that character is formed: The basis OF character is
tue will, and at no taAf does this function OF the
mind haze SO free a Scope: a~sSddriag recreation. It.
is then That all restraint is removed and We do as
we will. The excellent effect of recreation OH charac-
ter is ssHn in children at play. Often for the first
time tAey-learn the meaning Of self-restraint. They
learn tAsseignitcance of cooperation and group &C
ton. in those games requiring team work. At play
the ~chcat~is quickly discovered and punished with
ostracismsby his fellows. Such lessons in the funda.
mentals 81 morality are invaluable in the normal
development Of any child. After all, character Is
acquired from tho environment and not from the
blood. Amusement is gaining recognition as a force
as potent Us formal instruction.
Frank y. Watson.
One OF the most urgent needs of our schools is
better equipment for Fairgrounds; for free play is
one of the highest forms Of manual training.
Professor DRESSER.
The playground and the recreation center do more
for the implanting of the proper social ideas and
ideals than the school itself, and hence, if the public
school would not be deficient on the cultural side it
must include the work Of the playground among its
legitimate functions.
Wherever the playground has been made a part Of
the school system there has been a material reduc-
ton in failures, and this for the simple reason that
the principal cause for truancy is the natural desire
Of the child to play. Well, now, he knows that after
) o'clockgall sorts Ut games aud athletic sports are
awaiting him in the school yard and lie will go.tc
school in order that he may have the privilege of
playing. Joseph D. Kornaeld.