San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
NEW
METHODS USED
in EDUCATION.
S. A. Courts Here to
Address San Antonio
Teachers.
! EXACT SCIENCE
phazard Methods Being
By Efficiency
in Schools.

Ehen the methods Of the scientist
Engineer are used in approaching
:ational problems instead of the
hazard means of today, then our
Sols will function on a 100 per
efficiency basis with the resultant
It that dormant genius will be
kened to life and that the mute,
orious Millions" will find their
|es.
ibis Indictment Of present and past
RATIONAL methods and the succinct
cement of remedial measures that
tt be employed to develop the rs
ntial geniuses in the San Antonio
lie school system. were made by
s. A. Courts. director Of instruc-
! understanding and research in.
dean of the Detroit Teachers
! ege and professor Of the school Of
PATTON of the University Of Michi-
The originator of the famous
)rtis standard tests for the mea-
fments of the efficiency of teach
methods, was in San Antonio.
fday, to deliver a lecture to the
hers Of the public school system.
Will They Be Developed?
!If you have an enrolment of
100 pupils in the San Antonio pub
school system" DIR. Courts said
be stood in the lobby of the st.
Phony Hotel, Monday afternoon,
IRE should be at least 2S. or one for
~ thousand, who is potentially an
Standing genius. Will there be IS
4 fuses from this enrolment Of
POO? No. Why not? The po-
Iialities are there.
of these men standing here in the
BY Of this hotel, how many have
physical. mental and moral de-
Spment that they should have
y, if any. What is the matter? Is
trouble with them? Are they in
bible of being developed? Is it be-
Sc we do not have the proper
! wledge? Or does the trouble lie
b our methods of applying knowi-
BIZ?
STORED ON the shelves of your pub
library there is more knowledge
b we can handle. We do not lack
|wledge but we do lack the methods
Using ii. Educators are awakening
his fact. Haphazard methods must
abandoned. The methods of the
(. ntist and the engineer must be EN-
SFed. We must know what we have
work vithsaadrthen we must emea-
i the progress of our-work and the
cheney of our methods. We must
e intelligence tests TO measure tbe
|acity of the individual pupil and
must have achievement tests TO
sure the efficiency of our methods
instruction"
A Different Method.
br. Courts is a pioneer in the field
achievement tests. he having en-
I'D the work in 1907. Textbooks he
written and tests he has originated
now regarded as being authorize
and are used universally. He.
Birding to an article that appeared
week in nationally known mag
he is one of the big four educa-
| in the field of individual instruc-
b, the method of instruction where
methods are adapted to the in
Edual rather than whereby the in
Edual is forced into the mold of a
I'D method.
In the old days" DR.. Courts said.
was taught that a child should
tie rapidly and well. What do you
.xa1Ifc
bid mean 90 letters a minute or
letters a minute? BY system
tests we have worked out, We can
whether child is up to the nor
standard in writing. We have
nd by experiments what normal
id Of any given age can do. With
5 as basis we can determine
ether or not the child is subnormal
supernormal.
IF one of your teachers originates
method of instruction, we can de-
mine now the efficiency of that