Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — SCHOOLS SCHOLARS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCHOOLS SCHOLARS

Reboot Hygiene. G. Stanley Hall has the right idea concerning school education. He teE* us that “the great danger in our school, arises from imperfect health. It ha* become the custom in some countries that some of the best and most progressive city wards provide doctors to examine every child in the lower paha of the schools. This doctor examines the child’s complexion, eyes, muscles, and as to appetite, etc., and gives directions according to the needs of the case. For myself, I say, ‘what shall it profit a child if it gain the whole world of knowledge, and lose its own health? Or what shall a child give in exchange for Its health? We have forgotten that children cannot sit still, yet it is one of the commands that resound in the school-room from morning till night. We have found that the idea that children can sit still must be abandoned, and teachers must learn to possess their nerves and patience If the children do not sit still. We all live for Hfe. There Is nothing so good as being alive.”— Journal of Hygiene. - Where Io the College-Made Maa? Andrew Carnegie having recently asked: “Where is the college made man?” the Superintendent of Schools in Sioux City. lowa, has directed a systematic search for the missing individual, with no little success. A canvass of the leading men in the following named professions and occupations in toe principal towns of lowa gave these results, which are published in the Educational Review for March: Whole number College Per Profession, canvassed. bred. cent. Ministers 67 60 90 Teachers 65 55 85 Lawyers 78 53 68 Doctors.Bs 52 60 Bankers 66 26 40 Editors 53 16 30 Merchants and manufacturers .119 31 26 —Philadelphia Record. The School Grounds. It will not be difficult to educate school boys to respect flower-borders, window-boxes, vines, and shrubbery, if teachers themselves will display intelligent interest and affection for the school grounds. When these are of considerable size a great educational field can be opened by teachers who know something of botany, plantgrowth, and forestry. Such surroundings can be employed to the highest advantage in cultivating in children observation, and in imparting elementary ideas of natural science. How many teachers are there who care for these things or are qualified to instruct children in the laws of plant-growth? We apprehend that there are comparatively few who do not need an elementary education in botany and forestry. The beginning of this educational reform really lies with the teachers themselves.—New York Tribune. Praise for American Schools. Dr. Krohn, a prominent educator, a graduate of Yale and who has studied in France, Germany, Austria, Italy and England, says that he is firmly convinced that the system of public schools in this country is far in advance of all other nations, but that our system has too much forcing, and unless much care Is exercised in that regard it will tell on the children. He further says that precocity, unless carefully guarded and directed, is almost as dangerous as Imbecility.