Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — Too Much and Too Hard Arithmetic. [ARTICLE]

Too Much and Too Hard Arithmetic.

We believe that the present educational system in Indiana crowds the children too hard Especially does it require too much, and altogether too much, arithmetic. That study, instead of being, as it is popularly supposed to be, the most valuable in practical life of all the common branches, is really the least valuable; and yet so much cf it is required and so difficult is it now made, that it is harder than all the rest of the other studies together, to most pupils. It discourages more children from continuing their school course, and breaks down more of them physically, than all other of the common branches, combined. Half of the examples or “problems” as they must be called now, should be cut out, under every division of the study, and those the hardest half. - * '' .