Milford chronicle., 1921-09-23

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on education methods of teaching to have persistent
Nv nresened the plans for getting better results in the
effort to educate only the children but the gro"nus
as we-for both need education equally 1t is not tne
simple question of enabling child to read ana WIe InaC
makes the child educated-but to enable the child to
think inteligenty questions and subjects whlch are
resented in it's daily experiences To do this the modern
moving picture film opened means to educate
which the people generally have not grasped This move
ment to apply moving picture film to public schoo
education growing rapidy-especialy in the western
states where assumed place of great importance
Edwin NJ Harris, superintendent of Kane county,
Illinois schools declared that the lesson of reverence or
the flag needs taught from the kindergarten up ana
with increasing emphasis and intensity from graoe 10
grade.
1.-The right sort of patriotic film, shown from time TO
time during the term and freely discussed in class after
ward will do than other single teaching plan
to fuse the habit of loyalty and patriotism into the en
and moral makeup of boys and girls, said MI ar
ris 1--WE need more of films Hats Off! for exam
pe in which our nations heroes, from Washington ana
Lincoln to Roosevelt Pershing, come alive on the
screen to pupils where their flag was born ana "y
it brings thrill the heart of true American mo
child who sees such three times during tne
school year. talks about class and at home and looks
I'D the historical facts pictures will leave his grade
without better understanding of American history and
deeper love country 1t will help to create IN MN
an ingraned respect for his flag and loyal pride IN the
ideals and traditions for which it stands
Those who are urging the countrywide teaching OIL
civics or citizenship the elementary schools MAINTAIN
that to be Of value the great mass of the pupils the
work must begin not later the fourth grade-earer
if possible.
Statistics published by the Bureau of Education SHOW
that the average person completing his education IN 1918
had received little than six years OF schooling Oh
$50 DAYS each gives color to the criticism so ofen
directed against American educational systemthat
we are nation of graders Painful the facts are
tev force us to recognize this syear and make
allowance for it in planning the curriculum 1t is clear that
if Amercanism to accomplish anything dell
mite for the general of pupils today they must be IN
stalled in the lower grades and not be postponed until the
last year or the school, as 1t pretty gen
eray the case at present where such instruction is given
at ALL audience in Chicago, white-hared stranger
occupying the next seat in motion picture theater
where Hats Of-based the story by Harley L. Clarke
received first showing at its ending the old gentle
man turned and said: "I just speculatng while
watched that picture. Don't you suppose we had more
films of this type and really used them in educating our
children and Americanzng foreigners there would
be far less of the law such have recently
seen displayed down in West vrginia?"
1t the plan of the Society for Visual Education and
other organizations in the movement to exhibit
the film lessons patriotism and the duties OF citizens
not alone in schools in neighborhood centers in
order that adult members of the community may share
with the children in the benefits of the plan