The Washington times., 1923-05-09
SCHOOLS WRECK
MINDS, SAYS
DR.. WARD
Denver Psychologist Brands
Teaching of Today a Hodge
| 4 Podge Of Education"
BY MICHAEL r. DACEY.
International News Service.

| DENVER, May Q. - Condemning
methods of teaching used in schools
throughout the land today, DIR.
Duren j. H Ward. noted psychalo-
| gist, has issued a pamphlet here
pointing out remedies for what he
terms hodge podge" educational
| system.
| Despite the fact that education is
| the very greatest human under
| taking in the world, the present
| day school system is denounced by
Dr.. Ward as a human mind
wrecker.''
Americas school system DR..
Ward declares, lis ruled by bureau
lcfats: animated with hatred toward
talent and genius.
There are in the United States
today, according to DR.. Ward,
| 200 900 insane persons and mil
lions of victims of psychopatIlic
naladies. This condition is entire
ly preyentable and is the result OF
our wretched DEMONSTRATING. and
mind-crippling.y method of education.
| The present school system sQuand-
ers the resources of the country
and wastes the energies and lives
Of the children
Advocates Big Change.
! DIR Ward advocates an immediate
and drastic change in the educa.
lion Of both youth and adult. In
order to even approach the fulfill
ment Of our functions in educa.
! ton" he says, I'VE should as early
1 as possible overhaul and readapt
everything pertaining to the edu.
cation of the young and adult
And the overhauling, according
| to DR. Ward, should begin with the
three RS" He says our archaic
alphabet" containing wrong let.
tiers. silent letters and useless let.
| ters," disfigure our written and
printed pages and should be abol,
| ished.
DR. Ward continued
| Writing should be based upon
| the makeup of the child's hand and
not. as now. on a system of some
I unknown half-witted bigot whose
notions, in q copy book are sold
! through the school board by some
! exploiting corporation
Grammar Wrongly Taught.
Grammar. text book bought
| and given TO children to learn by
! rote whether they understand the
! meaning or not. is a great stun
bling block as taught TODAY. We
condemn those who cannot learn it
az defective and they must grow
| up marked as illiterate.
Except for those who will find
use for it in after years, teaching
of mathematics on wholesale
basis merely has the effect of
atrophying growing minds. An
! average child in six months to
year could easily learn all the APP
piications of numbers needed in an
average life if he had someone
with just little sense to interest
him at just the right age. Modern
brain study and psychology have
exploded the ancient plea that the
study Of mathematics is a 'valua.
bic universal discipline 1t is dis
! cipline for those who are going to
use mathematician others it in
almost wholly waste of time and
good brain cells
Omit Sex knowledge.
. DR.. Ward declares the schools
> teach little of economies and less Of
politics and deplores the fact that
e. or the most fundamental Of all
LIES >problems-sex conditions-the
T pupil knows nothing.
The remedy for this system
which leaves youth helpless at the
thresholds OF life, according to DR..
! Ward. will he found in placing the
F. facts established by science with.
t in the reach and use of everybody. -
$ Modern facts are needed in the
= schools, he concludes: facts pre.
scented by modern methods. High
8 schools boys who steal automobiles
D and carry on sexual orgies with
o half-dressed schooInates are the na.
e tuTal products OF their ipnorar+
n parents, their misguided teachers
L and their ancient -mnded pa stors y