Evening star., 1921-07-31

| stinct and fair memory, which usually
means both.
II learned all this through Ques-
tionnaires and without costly expert
! ments. The man with many facts
| almost surely will have the ones
you need in him. while every fact
| he has will be OF use to an employer
even though it may apparently lie
idle. Personally. am convinced
| that all industry will have to choose
its men eventually upon the basis Of
the QUESTIONABLE. worked out in some
| way All will find. at least, that only
men with facts can make executives.
When good man reaches an
process at least a hundred times as
| many facts as he himself would
think possible. This is very notably
true in business. At least 80 per cent
OF the men whom We have CLASSIFIED
| "A. have good business instinct.
But here 1t is important to explain
that such memories az refer to
| should not be expected of men far
| past maturity. The man of. say, for
| ty-five to sixty. has specialized. But
youngsters, fresh from the schools
and without fine memories. are start
bad at the beginning or damaged by
our educational processes. They are
/ our penalty for making our schools
! dull. Out of school the unimpor tant
| is made interesting; II the import rtant
| is not interesting in school, then the
! of the young. Our youth stores Its
mind with that which it finds most
| Interesting.
"why did nineteen college grad
| yates without the slightest hesita-
ton name the race horse Man Of
name the wife of Napoleon III for
me?" The latter they might have
| learned in a dull class; the former
| they actually had learned in an in
teresting newspaper. Most Of them
| said Marie Louise, instead of Eu-
genie.
"The trouble is in education. not
in the American mind. Our little
| children are all right. tried some
out by having made a special film
| worked out partly in a kitchen and
partly in a laboratory by a little
| boy and little girl. their procedure
| actually comprising brief but not
| too simple lesson in chemistry. The
mothers of my little guests agreed to
| write out for me what the little ones
reported after they reached home.
II was amazed by their reports.
The experiment fully showed that
| the child from eight to ten years old
may be made by visual instruction to
| understand quite complicated scien-
| tiflc phenomena which certainly the
I printed word and the recited lesson
never could make clear to them. One
| shows something being done, the
| other tells in strings of words how
| it is done.
GONE HUNDRED per cent func-
| Noning Is not impossible to hu-
man beings. Don't let any one make
you believe it is. Most Of the bu-
reaus in our government do not func-
| ton with efficiency. but one-the bu-
| reau Of standards-functfons 100 per
cent. DR.. stratton. who is at its
head, has never atrophied. No ques.
| tionnaire would feaze him. His gov
ernment bureau is the only case of
that sort known. Tho man is first
class and employs mono but the first
| class-al Amen I wish that man
| and that bureau might be put in
charge of government manufacture
| Of educational hlms. They would be
real things. This might solve our
national problem. The federal gov
| ernment could sell them to the states
and the states distribute them among
| the schools and elsewhere. With the
bureau Of standards in charge OF
their production the people would be
certain Of good educational Aims.
''But I have no theories to advance
with regard to the means Of educa. /.
tion most likely to preserve N from