. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ?176 The American Florist. Auo. 22, doses according to the size and age o£ the scholar, regardless of his ability or lik- ing for the subject. In other words the cause of study was and is in most schools a carefully prescribed one which must be followed by every student who enters the school regardless of his birth, desires or 6tness for the work. This coa- dition in our schools is undoubtedly the outgrowth of our modern commercialism. The public school has come to be a stu- pendous ofgauization managed in great m
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ?176 The American Florist. Auo. 22, doses according to the size and age o£ the scholar, regardless of his ability or lik- ing for the subject. In other words the cause of study was and is in most schools a carefully prescribed one which must be followed by every student who enters the school regardless of his birth, desires or 6tness for the work. This coa- dition in our schools is undoubtedly the outgrowth of our modern commercialism. The public school has come to be a stu- pendous ofgauization managed in great measure under the same rules and by the same type of men as are the trusts. In fact the public school system of our country might with propriety be classed "The ' Great American Educational ; In our desire to perfect a sys- tem we have in great measure lost sight of the individual and in so doing we are defeating the primary object for which our public schools were instituted—the perpetuation of the republic through the ?education of the masses. WnEBE SCHOOLS FAIL. The teaching methods of our great •city schools seem to be based on the idea that all men are born equal and have a common destiny. Each child is so much mortar to be cast into a building block for the state which will fit into the great wall—the foundation of the republic. There is no training for the work of life 4u our public schools properly so called. X few city schools are advanced enough to teach Sloyd, manual training, cooking, sewing, and in Washington we have a business high school in addition to the other variations above enumerated. Most of our public school work is con- fiued to the three R's and goes no farther. ter worked with them, and as they worked, they talked. Going to and from their duties Pestalozzi would call their attention to the wild birds, and the flow- ers, plants and weeds. They would draw pictures of things, make collections of leaves and flowers, and keep a record
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