Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-01-28

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not speak OF numerous dates and epo
nation and promptly forgotten period Of visitation the classes
dealing with the d. and on at least three occasions
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and significant personages and making to class
that absorbed in interest Only this difficult course value
education requires time training and imagination
to be but requires also part that
from each pupil is their great object and not the
threatening curriculum.
not to be taken denuncan The
however, believed to be valid that far
greater attention carrying
prescribed and upon ordering work within courses planned than
spent securing for child
and adapting it's material his interest and to the conditions
assimilation. .e..
further illustration of the and it's use
found in the statistics of So high schools with regard
in the 19-12 The chances failing subject that
ranged from four schools nearly four
in another school, the percentage Of failure high
the medan at unlikely due to any considerable
extent to differences the children these localities repre-
sen rather the widely varying tension the curriculum acting
differences preparation the pupils Tn tv practice
social policy forces certain uniformity question evaded
by arbitrary passing perhaps GLASS; practice
morally questionable alike teacher pupil case
in these smaller country schools They appear honest
variation inherent present problem
u.s. difficult development improved
standards measurement another
however, the problem of failure
and radical treatment the nature Of which In school system
that had for it's central the appropriate educational
of each child the his disposition
of how pupils teacher justified in failing would scarcely
appear ALL To-day the blight that call failure
gather and harden into persistent mental attitude pupil
the sanction of his school, repeats algebra Latin from
five times. This certainly mistake hoped
future brings resources learn to discern
beginnings of failure order for change of treatment and that
shall the facilities and the wisdom that change with
confidence and and at
The first and fundamental need therefore, greater freedom and
elasticity in order to meet the individual pupil This established there
pressing need that the curriculum be expanded to the enlarged
function of the presenay school Planned originally for but single
type pupil and time when the aim of secondary education had
by attained it's present it's to-day
and insufficient At time in hds life when he is
stimulated and permanently influenced by the reality of his
Vermont offers him through the ampoant first
high school treatment that exclusively booksh and be nothing
half botany the sole exception whose
social problems bound with agriculture Vermont has
curriculum that appropriate metropolis than
of the pupils Vermont high schools college, but the
studies that the colleges of them crowd from the curriculum
instruction. aside branches might