. Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Montana . ortant part to play inthe education of a child. We know that there have beentimes and places where a teacherand pupil have gained excellentresults without modern buildingsand facilities and with a broad-ened curriculum. However, desir-able results under such conditionsare rare and there is little guar-antee of success when these ad-verse circumstances prevail. Weknow also, and experience hasproven this to be true, that thesesame pupils and teachers, with up-to-date modern school plant facil-ities and with a
. Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Montana . ortant part to play inthe education of a child. We know that there have beentimes and places where a teacherand pupil have gained excellentresults without modern buildingsand facilities and with a broad-ened curriculum. However, desir-able results under such conditionsare rare and there is little guar-antee of success when these ad-verse circumstances prevail. Weknow also, and experience hasproven this to be true, that thesesame pupils and teachers, with up-to-date modern school plant facil-ities and with a curriculum de-signed to fit the needs of the pupiland the community, have done a much better job. A case in point is the man who purchases for himself a saw, square, plane, chisels, and then buys a book which tell him the use of all of these implements and how to apply the man picks up the saw to saw a board he will be just as inefficient in his use of the sawas if he had never seen it before. However, after he has worked with these tools for a year and —20—. Hcmemaking Class—Corvallis gained the experience and adaptability which cofrom the book, only then will he become efficientarithmetic. These are the tools of learning andhe has experiences with them. Some children haa book, but cannot determine the number of squarather than what it is today,—learning to spell ancome adept at spelling and can spell every wordletters using everyday words which they cannotthe printed page without error and yet not tell ythem as with the carpenter. Knowledge and abiWhen a child can say, after solving a problem ostanding has come and knowledge has meaning. mes only with use of the information he gainedat carpentry. So too, with reading, writing anda child becomes efficient in their use only whenve learned the multiplication tables by heart fromre feet in a table top. Spelling used to be a gamed use correctly everyday words. Some pupils be-from acetabulum to zloty, a
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