The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-22
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MAGAZINE Of
THEIR own
Modern School Teaches Them
to Freely Express Their
Thoughts.
By HELEN FOX,
BY Cosmopolitan Nowo Service.


SHELTON, N. j.. Feb. % The
children here love to go to school.
they don't like to play. And they
are not especially different from
children any other place in America.
What is different is their school.
They find 1t really very agreeable to
attend a school where there are no
multiplication tables, and hand.rais.
ing Is unnecessary. They find 1t still
more agreeable. to talk out in class,
and do the things they want to do.
In short, the children who attend the
Modern School here heartily approve
Of its pedagogic methods. to judge
by the opinions expressed in their
magazine. the "Voice Of the Chill.
dren," q publication produced en-.
tirely by the youngsters, even to
type-setting and printing.
Anna Cohen, fifteen years, in an
essay on Some Thoughts on Child
Education" Is of the opinion that
children can learn best when they
alone are permitted to develop their
natural aptitudes, and are not forced
into a common mold with children
the country over, by the parrotlng
of miscellaneous information.
Must Be Left Alone.
TO be original you must be left
alone" the dissertation reads, "sim.
ply must not be touched, which /
am sorry to say, is not even thought
of in some schools.
1.-THE people think children must
be taught, must 80 to school. They
never think of consequences. They
s0y, "Oh, they are too young. tc
know what to do" This Is q very
big mistake that Is made by most
grown ups. OF course, children
want to do everything at once
They will always want to do some
thing new, but If they were left
alone they would soon find the
thing they want.
When parents come to see theil
children and their work they car
find nothing in it. II a child
draws a horse or q man, they say
This does not look like a real man
why doesn't the teacher. show you
loses its originality. Even If the
picture has but little resemblance
to- man, think of the creation
that the child has accomplished
The things made by the child
are much better than those made
by the artists of today, because the
child is original.
Free Verse Attempt.
An interesting attempt at free
verse was made by Helen Kenner
nine years old. 1t reads:
''Skiping we 60 skipping we 70
springtime is here hurrah hurrah hurrah
SKIPPING We go hurrah
And all the flowers come up
And they look so nice
That all the children pluck the flowers
And play with them all day
Tai Il IL time to 60 to bed"
Little Victor Sacharoff is not at
all certain Of his spelling. But
then. he is only seven years old,
and he has a thought to express,
and his small fingers have learned
to handle type.
His contribution, which is called
"The Suney Day." follows:
once upon time Their was a
girl she was going for a ride in
a otoWe 1t was very hot so she
lookt up the sky and she saw the
sun and began to sing"
Billie Vasilio is eleven years old.
He wrote the following:
Little white May Apple growing s,
It's a pity that you must die by,
Growing in clusters you reign through
Sheltered from sunshine by your brish
green hoods.
Why t e It now that you don't lik,
Always hiding from everyone.
out Guess It's nature you can't hell
Hiding from sunshine just like a bat.
Fond Of the Magazine.
The children like their school. 8,
fond are they Of their magaxin,
about which much Of their work cen
i tiers, that Paul Scott, the print shoI
teacher. finds it almost impossible,
to send them out in the open I,
play.
The magazine has a circulation ii
EUROPE, as well as in America. TIL.
only lament of the children Ia tina
with the old, ramshaclxle printin,
press that they have, it is all the
can do to print 1000 copies. The,
regret all the copies they could sci
that they can't print.
The magazine is more than self
supporting. From its receipts con
siderable contributions to othe,
school activities are made.
Remedy for 0ver-crowding