Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1912 — Modern Educational Methods. [ARTICLE]

Modern Educational Methods.

The old saw, “No royal road to learning,” has been relegated to the rubbish heap of exploded theories. The teacher of Virgil interests her pupils—l wonder why I use the feminine pronoun?—with modeling In clay the scenes at Dido's conrt The instructor in mathematics Inculcates the principles of Euclid by means of pyramids and tetrahedrons, which the pupil, often with tedious and tearful endeavor, hag evolved from a piece of cardboard. The English pedagogue, finding no such tangible methods of demonstrating the relation between subject and predicate, resorts to s well-known maxim: Teach the child to speak correctly by putting before him specimens of only the best English, and he need never know there is ■nch a thing ak grammar. We, too, would resort to this method if there were not in the simple formula s condition quite impossible in democratic America, where, frOm nursery to parlor—and may I dare whisper it? even In our very schoolroom—the boy hears specimens of much that is not even good English.—Atlantic Monthly.