Evening star., 1923-10-03
EUROPE ADVANCES
MEDICATION WORK
Chevy Chase School Head
Says U. S. Cannot Ignore I
New Systems Found.


which American educators cannot at
ford to ignore, according to Stan
wood Cobb. principal of the Chevy
Chase county day school. who has
| Just returned to Washington after
a tour of European countries. Ae-
companied by Mrs. Cobb. Mr.. Cobb
spent three months studying the new
and progressive educational methods
being carried out in the schools Of
| France. Belgium, Holland. Germany
and Switzerland.
Since the war, Mr.. Cobb said, Eu-
| rope has felt the need for change
| In educational methods in order to
sells very advanced method is be-
ing tried out in the public schools.
known as the Decroly method of In
dtvtdual and auto-education. The
| teachers using this method do not
tea6R sat all. but invent and make
tmaterial in the form of games or
. tashss,Yby which each pupil educates
| hfmsSA seeking the teachers aid
| only SAs the last resort.
| visit Leading School.
SIESand Mrs. Cobb visited Or. o.
I Decroiy at his home, where he con-
ducts awhat is considered one of the
leading schools in the world for alb
normal children, using his method
| of auto-education. They also visited
his private school for normal chill
| dren, the Hermitage, and about ten
public schools in which his method
\ is being tried.
DR.. Decroly made a tour OF the
! progressive schools of the United
! States last year as guest or the
! Junior American Red Cross and is
clared the best features of the
American schools
In Hamburg MIR. Cobb visited the
| radical Lichtwarkschule where the
teachers assume no authority over
, the pupils. and where there is no gov
ernment of any kind The primary
classes, Mr.. Cobb said. were in a
state of mild anarchy but the
older classes had worked out a
method of procedure during the three
responsibility in the older pupils. he
declared, was excellent
In Terrilet, Switzerland, there was
in August a two-week congress OF
the new Ligne internationally pour
Education Nouvelle,' which brought
together the leading educators along
new lines in England and the con-
tinent." said Mr.. Cobb: Represen-
tries, including England. France.
| Germany, Belgium, Holland. Dem
mark, Norway, Sweden, Czechosloviak,
| Austria, Hungary, Jugo-Slavla, But
! yaria, Italy and Spain. This congress
! achieved the important result of serv-
| ing as a focus and clearing mouse TOT
! the new education movement IN
| Europe. New sections of the league
were formed for Sweden, Dehmarh
Jugo-Slavia and Spain.
Sees Red Cross work.
| In Paris Mr.. Cobb viewed the edu-
cational work being done by the
American Red Cross in the way OF
| exchanging Correspondence anu s,es
and schools in many countries IN
! Europe. Regular correspondence Is
carried on now between the sehool
! children of America and twen.y-hVe
different countries OF the ,,ob
In the Paris office through when
! all correspondence between the Unlleo
| States and Europe passes there vas
| seen a gift from school III Moula,
| Czechoslovakia, passing on It's way
! to school in Albany, NO: 1his 81
| views artistically mounted, SET OF
| letters by the children, some pottery
| which is a speciality of Modra, a
! wooden box carved and decorated py
the pupils, containing a few native
coins, and a book of reproduced
sketches in charcoal by the Slovakian
artist, Janko Alexy, which depicted
native architecture, village scene ana
I LANDSCAPES, The children or Albany,
! Mo, will respond with similar gift,
showing what American life is like.
There also was a gift from school
| of Turin. Italy, going to a school In
the state of Washington. From Paris
! a public school is corresponding with
a public school in New York city. A
large box of wooden toys, the gift of
| the industrial department OF the Pas
| sale, n. j., schools. was awaiting dis
tribution among the poor children Of
| Paris.
This admirable work, sponsored by
| the Junior Red Cross, is rapidly link
! ing together school children in all
| parts of the world with the aim OF
arousing sympathy, understanding
and world brotherhood said Mr..
| Cobb. "It is thus an important. part
| of the great work for world peace
| which is in the forefront of human
| thought today"