Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-29
.RAPS KINDERGARTEN
SYSTEM OF TRAINING
Miss Agnes Repplier Tells Woman's
Club 1t Produces Mental
SOftneSS.
NOTHING WITHOUT EFFORT
Says Child Who Thinks He Gan Stop
Task us Soon as 1t Grows Irk-
some Has Started Life on Wrong
Tack.

In the most clean-cut "Amcrican-
made" English. building her word pic
lures like Il mosaic, Miss Agnes Rep
plier. easily first OF this country's satir-
lists. addressed the woman's Club yes
terday afternoon on Some Varieties
Of Popular Education Tiny ripples
OF laughter swept almost continuously
over her hearers as she presented scene
after scene from every woman's mental
scrapbook and "cut in with irrcsisti-
s bic pictures OF the modern education
trial. training for efficiency" ideas.
She said that mankind is OF, two
typesnand by mankind She included
ynn h rabbit , ln9 the ferret
would remain there till the morning:
while the ferret would bite it's way to
Of his circumstances. and when ut
liberty he goes about his daily bust
ness. and does not stop TO urge the
rabbits to cease to be rabbits.
The modern woman declared Miss
Rcpplier. seems TO feel herself as
badly o,.nSo used by nature as by circum-
At this point the speaker diverged
s srom the %,c woman subject TO discuss
species later In her talk. in which she
said: II hope the day viii come when
they will cease TO speak Of n good
list. as If the idea were unusual as
chimpanzce eating with spoon"
BELIEVES WOMEN HAVE
SAME ABILITIES As MEN
not have the same ability as men. given
the same educational opportunity, Is
her theory, and she believes every op-
portunity should be given. In dcscrib-
Ing the type OF education given the
girls o.: her day. Miss Reppiier called
1t ,embrvonic;" ana thai Of the modern
thought, We're about the same. Every
one has ideas on education which they
are anxious to try out on this patient,
but hewildercd, country. The general
trend seeming TO he contempt for
experience. and an enthusiasm for the
untried."
In one boys school of which she told
she said the aim was apparently to fit
them to live alone on a desert island
as they we're learning to do everything
from cobblinE their shoes to grinding
hated textbooks" in the curriculum
SHARP CRITIC OF MODERN
KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM
An almost knock out blow was de-
livercd the kindergarten as it is con
Quoted to-day. 4 Harvard professor
told the speaker that he could detect
by the softness In the mental fibre"
The belief that anything worth
while gan be had without effort is
who thinks he can stop task as soon
as II grows irksome has started life
on the wrong tack"
Some OF the advantages OF the early
type OF training set forth were: IL gave
more time for reading: made for more
mental ease; more tact was acquired for
use in later life by the sclf-sacrifice OF
chlldren To their elders; and people
were more human and less scientific in
the attitude toward the poor.
To-day but few young people know
what is meant by certain illusions to
what were formerly well-known facts
in literature. The Bible Is as Greek to
many. The keynote of liberal educa :
ton is that which Its for the pleasures
Of lie, Its Jest and Gu.ps. as we'll as for
the business of making Il living The
real art OF finance Is not about the
earning OF money. but concerning the
saving of IL, that women have the most
10 learn"
WOMEN KNOW TOO LITTLE
OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS
They know but little about the bank
ing systems. the difference between
stocks and bonds or what is n rational
per cent of interest on their money
These. She declared, were the things
mat made men question woman's abil-
ity to hold her own in the business
world. Women are little slow In COM
Ing into their own, and one thing that
the speaker said irrtated her with
women writer's and speakers who are
beginning to catch up with the process
sion, rs that they act as IL they had
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