Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1904 — FEATURES OF EDUCATION. [ARTICLE]

FEATURES OF EDUCATION.

How the Exhibit at St. Louis Will Be Distinctive From That at Any Other Centennial.

By CLAUDE H. WETMORE.

Education finds more recognition in Jie Louisiana Purchase Exposition than In any previous centennial celebration. It Is the keynote of the great enterprise, permeating every display. Moreover, the Idea in its abstract has a home of its own, in that for the first time In history the appliances of school life are shown in a building constructed exclusively for this purpose. At Chicago and at Paris this exhibit was made a department of something else. At St. Louis it is seen alone, housed in a palace which many consider the most perfect architecturally of any on the grounds. Besides, in the classification of exhibits education leads all others, taking rank over fine arts, manufacture and all the industries. In remarking these facts visitors have added that It was strange such prominence had not been given to education before, and they are loud In their praise of those who have carried the Idea so prominently to the front In St. Louis the revealinent of process will be carried out In the Palace of Education as well as In the other palaces. Formerly it was deemed sufficient to arrange In booths samples of text books and of apparatus of the laboratory and observatory. Appliances used in the schoolroom were displayed conventionally, and visitors could pass through aisle after aisle and view only the technicalities of the world of instruction. As a result the pedagogue only was Interested. In SL Louis, however, there Is to be actual demonstration of the use made of all such appliances, and the multitude will find itself entertained. Thus the model training school will be a creature of life—boys to be seen using the tools of the various trades. Pupils of a school for the blind will demonstrate the methods in vogue where the sense of touch is made to supply that of sight, and those who are deaf and