The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-11

our eQucallOIlal SYSTEM Wells 1t Will
take in every useful activity of hui
man endeavor We now have a school
that gives the child four hours of the
DRY and study each day. six days a
week. and four hours in an industry
that is particularly of interest to him
or her. Here the student is encourag-
ed to become student and teacher both
at the same time. and in that way to
think, act, and impart knowledge
to Others. The useful things of life
are the occupations that should be
most forcibly impressed upon the
minds of the students, instead of teach
ing our children to become money-get-
ters-we teach them to be wealth-pro-
ducers. Agriculturalists, horticuItur-
alists, builders. clothes-makers. stock
raisers. and all the different kinds of
producers, as we'll as other occupa-
tons that render useful service, such
as cooking, laundFa work. teaching,
etc. Why, certainly, we teach them
music and art, and will eventually take
up every other study that will add to
the sum total of better existance for
all. Our next step is to build new
brick school house. This is to be done
by the boys and girls Of the school.
1t will be done in units, each room to
be finished in a different kind of
wood, and each class to be for spe-
cific purpose. For instance, one room
will be- used in which to teach geogra-
ply; maps, spheres of the world, and
anything that will make proper en-
vironment for teaching this subject,
will be placed here. Another room,
for mathematics. viii be fitted espe-
cially with materials for arithmetic, al
zebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.
A room for chemistry, one for reading.
for spelling, for agriculture, etc, will
be added. We expect to have spe-
clal teacher for each subject, the
teacher specializing on both the the
Dry and practice of these subjects. 1t
is therefore natural to suppose that
the Agriculture teacher will eventual
ly be the head of that department in
the Colony. The teacher Of mechani-
cal drawing should also become the
head of that department, and so on in
the other departments gardening,
stock-raising, cooking, sewing, etc.
Eventually, the industries will be UNI
der the leadership of the people who
know most about each industry and
he job of the leader will be to devel-
op others to the same degree Of eff
cheney. Each student will take part
in our industrial life and become a
useful unit of our whole organization.
We look forward to the time when
we shall attract the best of teachers,
who will come here because they will
be permitted to teach the truth. Those
Who have the desire to help each stu
dent to proper embodiment of the
pest that is in him. Character-building
will be our first consideration and to
direct the mind so as to create a
desire to be useful to society, instead
Of parasite on society, will also be
emphasized; and, from these, and the
proper environment, we expect our
children to get most complete educa-
ion and start, not to make money, but
o make themselves useful and hap
~ and the world better place in
which to live. Will our children be
aught to buck the competitive game?
should say not! and none of them
will ever have to. No one who knows
our system of living can imagine our
BOYS. and girls desiring to enter into
after having lived under
, cooperative form of society. No
hey will stay in the new game and
neIp to complete it for you and the
est of the world. They have the
greatest future before them of all the
groups of children in the woodland
lon't you forget it!
** SIS
Monday, Nov. 6. i like to see
,isitors come and ask me to take them
out over the place. 1t gives me a
nance to see things in action. To-
lay, Mrs. Marrions, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hunt, and took a short trip to the
country. As we passed the orchard
10 acres. Jacques. Hall, Roede, and
Freshmen were cutting sorghum from
he northeast corner. Scharrer was
hauling this to the silo, where Lindsey,
ieis, Toble, and Baldwin cut it into
:nsilage and put it into the silo. Out
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