Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — Ignorance in School. [ARTICLE]

Ignorance in School.

An examination of the younger children in the Boston public schools not long since revealed some rather curious facts. The examination was accidental. It was also quite out of the usual line of school tests. If the questioner had asked the children something that was in their books they doubtless would* have answered brilliantly. Undoubtedly thev could have told him what a participle was. But he asked them about everyday things, and here were the answers he got: Eighteen per cent, of the young ones didn’t know anything about a cow, except from pictures; 61 per cent, had never seen coin growing. Ninety per cent, of these children educated in the public schools, which are the glory of America, did not know where their ribs were, or exactly what they were. When asked what and where their stomachs were, however, all but 6 per cent, seemed to have something like a correct idea. They had had stomach-ache often enough to know that, bless the little creatures 1

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