The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-01-27

course
medley strange Names gov
by chance series of abstract notions of
society," which clearly with nothing
modern speak epochs
nation promptly forgotten At the period of visitation the classes
dealing with the 50 A. d. least three
the details regarding Galba Otho and veus ehearsd
faithfully julius discussion three
other classes different atmosphere prevailed Breaking away from
the textbook the teachers here reproducing certain picturesque
and significant and making them thrb with life to class
Only
requires teachers with time training
requires their that
from each pupil is their great object and not the satisfaction OF
threatening curriculum.
The foregoing criticisms the year
sweeping The considerations
however believed be valid basis for the conclusion that far
centered carrying
prescribed ordering work within planned than
spent upon securing child that what he needs
and adapting its material to his interest and to the conditions of his
assimilation.
further illustration
high schools with regard student fail
ures in the year 19-12 failing subject
year schools nearly chance four
percentage failure going high 26 with
the medan 1t is unlikely that this was due to any considerable
the children in these localities
nts rather the widely varying tension the curriculum acting without
correlation with differences preparation the pupils In city practice
social policy certain uniformity and the question evaded
arbitrary perhaps practice
questionable alike teacher pupil This not the
these smaller country schools They show the honest
variation inherent in our present educational standards The problem
difficult that the development of improved
standards of alone solve From another point view
however problem urgent immediate
nature of which clear school system
that had for its central the appropriate educational treatment
child of his capacities disposition the problem
of how pupils teacher justified in failing would scarcely
appear all To-day the blight that call failure allowed
gather harden persistent mental attitude pupil with
the sanction of his school, algebra Latin from
This certainly mistake and to be hoped that
shall learn discern the
failure change treatment and that
the that with
confidence and and at
The first fundamental need therefore, freedom
elasticity order to meet the individual pupil This established there
pressing that the curriculum expanded the
function the pesenday school, Planned originally for but
type when the of secondary education had
attained its to-day
and insufficient At time chids life when he most
stimulated permanently influenced by the reality his
ings offers him through the al-mporant first
treatment that exclusively boosh be nothing
botany the exception state whose
problems with agriculture
high school curriculum that appropriate metropolis Less than
the pupils high schools college, but the
studies that the colleges of them crowd out from the curriculum
all of instruction. aside from commercial branches that might
other nineenh of the students happier efficient
their future occupations whether they be business teach
Praise the state department education
that these respects have been preached and
already initiated in Vermont.
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