The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-08-22
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tivity. This is followed by individ-
ual help given to the pupils.
This method will be uniformly
done throughout the grades by all
the teachers. The transition from
the present system to the newer
type will be very easy as the foun-
dalton has been laid for this class
work. Pupils will progress at their
own rate of speed and grade clas-
sifications will practically disap-
pear.
Schools Must Change
Because our civilization Is con-
stantIy changing, the schools by
the very service they render must
change in a corresponding way.
How can education stand still
when the social thinking of the
economic PHILOSOPHERS of people
are subject to challenge and
change? Modification in our COM
munity and economic life are still
going on. This transitional period
is characterized by forces that are
leading us to social unification and
close Indignation never thought
possible.
DR.. Fred Englehardt, Of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, who is a ma
tional authority on schools and
school problems says, THE schools
have a tremendous task. If viewed
in terms of what they have to
work with, the student body they
are required to serve, the wide
range of competence made avail
able through low salary schedules,
the outside social and political
pressures constantly at work, the
ever increasing demand for great
er economies, the little money
available for research, and above
all, the job of adapting schools to
a rapidly changing social order,
one marvels that these public insti.
buttons have been able to accom-
plish all they have during the past
years"
The completely Of life demands
a crowding into our school CURT
culum a place for the discussion
and learning about the very prob
lens that society itself has pro-
duced. 1t imposes the duty upon
the school to cope with the many
problems that grow out of a DEM
ocracy and therefore much is ex-
pected of education that it would
seem reasonable to extend High
School training another year or
two.
Englehardt says, Many good
people are disturbed over the
'frihs and fads" of education and
are prone to draw their compari-
sons from the past experience hal
lowed by time rather than from
knowledge Of that which is actual
ly taking place in the schools. How
can we prepare youth to meet the
problems they must face as they
reach maturity and as they as
sumo leadership and responsibility?
Is it to be accomplished solely
through the Latin and Greek cur
riculum of old? No indeed, for the
school curriculum that served one
generation can hardly suffice in its
entirety the needs Of another.
How very different are the prob
lens that the average boy and
girl meet today when compared
with those that confronted their
grandparents when they were
young"
ITO the, parent, to the teacher,
and to all who have to deal with
people, the peculiarities due to in
dividual differences are notice
able. The facts are firmly estab-
lished that all children, indeed all
persons, do not learn all things
equally well nor are they equally
changed. All persons are not equal
ly capable of making the same ad-
justment to the problems OF life
or to changing environmental con-
ditions. All children do not reach
the age of adolescence or maturity
at the same age or through identi-
cal processes. Learning interests
and capacities in children are
markedly different at different age
levels"
In getting the viewpoint of men
of authority in a given field cas-
ual observation of the numerous
factors all about us that influence
educational procedure it is a fact
that educational ideas and educa-
tional methods must change to
meet and direct the change that
takes place in the general econom-
ic and the social life of the people.
Students of teaching methods have
not solved all the problems but
like medical researchers who I'M
ceasingly work, they hope to even
tually succeed. It is with faith in
education that America will con-
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