South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-22
SCHOOL TRIES new
EDUCATION METHOD
Children GO Into Business by
New Courses ~ Work
Turned Into Play.

NEW YORK. Feb. 21.-The most
interesting PEI pie in New York are
the fourscore little pupils who at
tend the city and Country school
mere
And in many ways they're the
most important people here. too.
Because they're being educated IN
an experimental school, school
that'u turn our old fads and theories
about education upside down, II it's
successfui
II the school can do what 81 plans
TO do. education will be modernized
The schooIboy Of the futsre never
viii play hookey-thereu be no in
ducement. for school will be az ir-
teresting as play.
How does the school work
Let's take the school life OF John
Mc-- AZ an example.
Johns 10 years old He has brown
hair and chubby cheeks and a frank,
manly expresslon-he's just a nor
NAL happy child.
The only reason his name isn't
mentioned IS so people won't point
him out on the streets as a prodigy
which he isn't.
Methods i'm Johns school.
Johns school IS trying out meth
DDS that can be tested la any other
place.
II does not give examinations.
PUPILS do not have 20 do home
work unless they want 20.
They do not study anything that
doesn't interest them.
Here's how the ncw-type school
works.
Johns in busincss-not make-be-
lieve but really.
Re happens 20 be in the printing
business with other members OF a
class called Group y, so called be-
cause all members Of the class are
o years old
other classes take up other lines,
as pottery or cooking
John and the othe- boys and girls
IN his class conduct the printing
plant themselves and do all the
work II requires. They all have
learned hand stamping and type
writing and soon will take up use OF
a real press.
Meanwhile they have studied let
tering and learned the various styles
Roman. Gothic. Old English and
so on
That's what printing teaches
them directly. But besides:
Group Y advertises for business
Il puts signs on the school bulletin
boards soliciting orders.
Learns Thrift and Arithmetic.
-.Tr.Y
for blank forms, Tost cards, notices
Christmas cards and programs.
Thus money is made and put into
the treasury Of Group Y. And pa
per. type. ink and other supple
have 10 be bought. All this entails
bookkeeping.
SO John learns thrift and arithme
tic at the same time.
In science John studies the manu-
facture Of inks-by making his owl
ink Thus he learns something o.
the principles Of physics and chem
istry-learns them so he'll remem
Der them.
In geography John studies thu
countries that supply material fol
the manufacture or ink. This give,
him real interest i'm them
In the carpentry shop John Il
helping TO make equipment for tn
printing room. He's learning to draw
20 scale because he sees its praCti
cal use.
And he has 10 calculate tn
amount OF wood he will need 70
the table he's making. Hell have t
find out how much that wood wi
cost
So Johns learning a great dea
without knowing it, It's almost a
much fun as basketball
John Learns Fast
One Of the things psychology ha
taught US is that we not only lear
much more quickly things were in
terested i'm but that we retain thes
things longer.
And Johns school works i'm &C
cordance with that principle
Processes i'm arithmetic are an
preached from a practical angle
The class has two funds-one fur
nished by the school for the pul
chase OF supplies the other none
the girls and boys themselves hav
earned
Keeping these two accounts in OF
der furnishes ample arithmetic drill
And multiplication tables-Joh
didn't take them UP until ne want
al 20. until ne saw he had 90 kno,
them 90 save himself a lot OF trou
bic.
DO YOU think Johns school
practical? You can have one Ike
p YOUR town. 10 YOU Will