. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . e old-fashioned drill methods of effort was put forth to make school studiesinteresting and pleasurable. Initiative and originalitywere encouraged in the teachers. Increased attentionwas given to geography and nature study; childrenwere taken out of doorsfor much of this tables in theschoolroom and sandpiles in the school yardwere used to help thechildren get notions ofthe shapes of hills,valleys, and history and geog-raphy were taught with-out textbooks, so we
. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . e old-fashioned drill methods of effort was put forth to make school studiesinteresting and pleasurable. Initiative and originalitywere encouraged in the teachers. Increased attentionwas given to geography and nature study; childrenwere taken out of doorsfor much of this tables in theschoolroom and sandpiles in the school yardwere used to help thechildren get notions ofthe shapes of hills,valleys, and history and geog-raphy were taught with-out textbooks, so werespelling and enthusiasm wasdeveloped in the teachers, and the movement spreadthrough New England. Institutes and summer schoolssprang up, so anxious were teachers to secure insightand skill in the new education. Opposition re-sulted in the examination of the schools of NorfolkCounty, in which Quincy is located, with the resultthat the Quincy pupils were found to be in advance ofthe other schools in all the fundamental subjectsexcept mental arithmetic. Thus the Quincy move-. CoL. Francis W. Parker (1831-1902) 174 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL ment was vindicated; and its example had a great dealto do with the spread of the new education. Colonel Parker at Chicago. — In 1883 ColonelParker was invited to the presidency of the Chicago(then called the Cook County) Normal School, wherehe labored for over fifteen years, putting into practicehis theories, so like those of Froebel. Students flockedto his institution from almost every state in the West,attracted by the popularity of the new ^^ fad,^ and byParkers personality. Teachers went from his facultyto other institutions throughout the country. Hisvirtue lay in trying to do, and in a measure succeedingin doing, what others for centuries had said should bedone. He did not do the actual work of his subordi-nates, it is true; but he encouraged, he inspired, hesupported, he protected them, and made their workpossible. H
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