The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-10-09


high school as step above The gram
grammar school.
"ihe Frenchman expresses himself
very rankly. We do not want an
educ1tcd proletariat and so in his
secondary schools there is great di-
versi'y.
There is the classical secondary
school leading to the university and
the technical secondary school lead
ing t. the trades Both France and
England caste is recognized and the
pupil is not encouraged to step over
the boundary lines Germany, the
autocrat, was the frst to abolish the
caste line and to seat the noble with
the peasant In Germany the same
switch thai urges the peasant along
the flowery path of knowledge is
used 10 warm up the laggard aristo.
crat. The Germans in their secondary
schools extend their supervision 10
out of school hours and strictly forbid
dancing. etc, during the school term.
They supply recreation for the stu
dents and do not permit them 10 have
entertainments other than lose APP
proved by the school.
What Would Happen in Ardmore?
Can you imagine the tumult that
would follow such a decree from the
board Of education of Ardmore? II
would be equal to a Boston Tea party.
II can now in anticipation picture
la group Of our most enthusiastic
Ladies Aiders' clubbing together and
giving dance at the Convention
/ hall simply because they felt that the
school board was interfering with
their personal liberty.
such measures might work in au-
tocratic Germany. but In free Ameri-
ca we would not submit. Then if we
have been granted such splendid
privilege as eacn mother has in .u-
pcrvisng her children's recreation, do
YOU not think that we mothers ought
tu be grateful that we would not per-
nit frvolities that interfere with our
schools?
II cannot help but thnk that the
mothers are To blame for parties, etc.
on school nights. 1t is part OF inc
uge 10 curb the impatiencc Of youth.
when / was in school there was a
table in our front hall with lamp
ON Il and | took a seat a that table
every school night during the school
term.
My mother was very lax with me
about a great many things, but that
table was not one of them. When /
nished the supper dishes ! just nat
lrally gravita.ed i'm that direction.
Being Presbyterian, | knew that
he table was a predesiined along
about the fourth grade At some un-
| guarded moment | might have taken
| Il into my head to climb the top Of
| .he steepe of the Methodist church
| next door, but ] never would have
| been rash enough to even dare to
| suggest that | move my seat from the
ancestral hall tree ON school night.
| Il am sorry to say that | often
| wasted my time at that table, but my
mother couldn't help, that; she had
Zone what she could. although she
often suspected that my head was Il
vacuum.
| In my family the Presbyterian
| church, the school and the Democratic
| iftiAN MtlF At-dAAN' &c ~
prime factors of existence.
j. remember great uncle OF mine.
lie used to sit on the front porch and
read Shakespeare until dinner time,
hen after dinner he would move out
OF the sun around 10 the side porch
ana read Gibbons Rise and Decline
Of the Roman Empire until supper
Child's Idea Of Education
"One day when my mother had re-
reived my report card and was look
lng as sad as II 1t had been neatly
engraved announcement Of my funeral
.ried 10 defend myself In a way of
which should have been heartily
ashamed. Mother | said, Uncle Bob
has an education, hasn't he? Indeed
he has she said reproachfully. Your
uncle Bob is regarded as one of the
orainest men in North Mississippi ana
Is an authority on Shakespeare
We'll argued, I never did hear
ot him >setting this world on fire.
never did get any further for my
mother caught onto my line OF rea'
soning and TO what | considered a
lucccssful life. and what ! caught is
rir'tn matter between my
mother and myself.
..... ,AnN that mothers Ike
tina have need OF mothers club
program ON recreation.
My mother, however believed in
recreation and II there was anything
,oug ON Friday or Saturday nights
i was right there, II | had an invi'
tation. matter which | generally
attended 10 myself.
Il believe that II / hold the value
of an education as cvcrlastlngly be-
fore my children as my mother did
before me- that they will have an
education.
Curriculum for Average Mind
As she often said to me when my
grades were unsatisfactory Mary, the
public school curriculum IS designed
for the average mind, perceive yours
is not average
"Shc never had an excuse FOR my
bad grades at school.
The trouble with us all IS We are
rying to make 'hlngs easy.
'"rhe word school comes from thf
Greek word 'scholi. and we are Try
ing to put education back TO It's dc
ryailvc basis
"As long as our public schools oxa
they will sond into the world b.
y and girls filled with lofty aspira;in
. end high ideals And, also, boys a
Girls whose highest aspiration S.
have good time, little knowing th
q IN noglccting their education they 30
defeating their own purposes.
= For education ycrifics the pleasure
. ot youth and gives io maturity and ''
:, ia age AN inostlnsblo fund of cnjui
Il mcnt. We mothers IN rearing od.