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NEW EDUCATION SCHEME.
Special Interview, with Mr. H. AL Fisher,
determined on a
thia general determination. ¦
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1918.
Our Lost Art of Music. "I hope that music will find a place, but this bar not. been sett-
led. Personally I regard music as important in all education. There is no way in which the Germane sre so far in advance of
abare of
the general
Summer Camps for Boys. Another new ides of what we are very hopeful is expressed ip that portion of the Act which en- ables the school authorities to start school camps for summer instruction. We hope that to
THE AMERICAN SPIRIT.
Ex-President Talt Points
a Moral..
Mr. Fallerton L. Waldo writes
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THE BAKED BEAN OF BOSTON.
every people. Worthy education bighway broader than exists "But the new plan sime at result in some depression in uni- in Franse where it is necessary to is impossible where inferior elsewhere, I think. Institutions protecting the interests of varsity life. The loss of intell- hals for the most eager and terching forces are employed, and which accept grants from the employers as well as those of estual leaders in our university vigorous troops to acquire the only inferior teaching forces can State must make this provision of youth, and the Board of Eduon groups, indeed, has been re-technique of modern battle. How to Make and Ext Them, be secured where inferior pay in one-quarter of their places for ion is prepared to recognise mendous. Bat I believe that when Your British officers know full
The shortest road to a man's antered. Where teaching in in elementary school pupils, and schools of a vocational character we reckon up at the end of the well-the need of that intensive hesit is proves bially through his fariar good government cannot be thus many private institutions established and maintained in in-war we shall find that we still tining for our men, atop of all stomach and a real gh he will be affected, most of those in doitial detablishments by em bars eacagh with which to meet they have learned in America article about Boston baked beant expected.
"That nation which, after the England in fact, save Eton, Har ployers, if theas schools come up the nation's needs."
Their business common-sense lays that crept into these columns last to required standard. Thus naked Mr. Fiber if the detaining hand upon our impulse Saturday ay ibe! N. G. Daily Mr. Edward Mareball, writes in war, employs the best teachers row, and a few otherr.
withtbe highest pay and as a The majority of each instita- abildren will be permitted to take aducational plan included any to rush at once into action, telling News of February 18, all the the Observer as follows :-**
terview which, to part of the heat school system tions have no great endowments, their 320 hours" nonal training to do business so as to win the us that to serve the Allie beat Boston ladies in Shanghai who layman, seems almost like the will be the Leat guverned and do not especially cater to the instruction in schools established youth to business so as to win the and to serve America best we who are known to the American therefore the greatest nation. Of aristocreor, and are leted by the State or in employers World's trade after the war. must know utterly how: Andy Woman's Emhange have been story of the dream of a new n**
"No," he said. "I myself being aware that you comprebend tion, Hr. H. A. L, Fisher, Preside that I am absolutely certain. No locally and by the State. Under schools inspected by the State.
"We regard it as important believe in the general enrichment the length and breadth and depth kitobens this week. The news very busily engaged in their told me of the new edacational education will demand and eup-jelementary schools at fourteen that employers should be epcoar. of hamsa nature. To my mind of the problem, we are counselled that the Exchange was dispensing ent of the Board of Elocation, people which does not respect the bill a boy or girl leaving the scheme which he believes will be port good government, and if must attend a secondary school aged to feel that they must bear an education designed especially by you.
eneral to equip unfor a desparatą-effort,
the festive vegetable prepared in All America rejoices that at last the true Boston style was only s the best of all monuments to the there is not a vital impulse run at least sight hours a week for their
sing through its education the forty weeks, or, in some other obligation of 320 hours' vocation- to win trade would be an error. our soldiers are pouring into the few hours in print when visitors men who have fallen in the war
fighting for those ideale which people of no nation can be ex-way, be under direct educational al training for every child. Em-end of all education should be front line of trenches.
who had never been at the influence to the aggregate of 320 ployers are sometimes suspicions liberty. If we are to achieve a William H. Taft, ex President Exchange before mark the progress that is, the pected to repeat it.
appeared, Nursery Schools.
hours each year. This attend of schools, fearing that some population worthy of liberty, of the United distee, who has their proper education of the world,"
"The sabool programme under ance may be distributed so se to competitor may be reaping an national and individual, it must lately become a solleagues a beans," as the lady in charge of moethe watering for "War," said Mr. Fisher, “baz
onit the convenienos of its advantage through employing be made up of individuals contributing editor of the Public the Exchange erid. stirred men's minds as well as the new system will inolode':—
"Firat. Nursery schools for industry, if the papil is employ-ebildren st fall time. The now possessing free, unprejudiced Ledger says very sensibly and souls. Universal service naturally
An interesting paychological leads to the conviction that those children between the ages of ed. Thus the pupil is carried on, system will do away with every minds. We want citizens who accurately in his first editorial *-fact is that all the callers wern
✨ will wish and win the beat for us, who render it are worthy of the three and six. It is almost cer- in general, to the age of eight reason for such apprehension.
"Germany is halted, has sho men. Perhaps edme had vain beat from the community, even as tein that these nursery schools een.
We shall insist that every school but will be willing and even
is not whipped, and we may hopea that, having a sample, their **Part of this training will be, shall include in its work oartain Boxions to give every other have to send an army ofwires or cooks could produce the they give their Leet to the com- will be small institutions in which
much sleep and play will be com- physical, ec, for the Arst time in general cultural branches for pation its due. Certainly nothing 5,000,000 instead of 2,000,000 same effect at home, not knowing manity.
One of my friends doing bined with very little routine in our history, general supervision children up to the age of sixteen, is farther from our minds than
to win this war. We are not that the making of both Boston T.M.C.A. work at the front and struction; but the play will be will be exercised not only over the that between sixteen and eighteen the subordination of our school
likely to suffer from starvation baked beans and Boston brown here or feel tas pange cf hun bread is an art hereditary, a coming into contact with in- educationally organised, and the basic health, but over the physio- the training shall be mainly system to a commercial campaign oredible nambere of one British sleep will be under thoas good fitcees, of our citizens up to cultural, and that physical train. to follow the war."
ger, but we may have to oume secret closely guarded by the soldiery, told me how especially conditions which will help the the age of eighteen. Litrary, irg of one kind or another stall
to compulsory economy in descendents of the Mayflower tx wheat, meat, fat, "and sugar, carsion. There was such an extra more liveable children to become strong and historical, general, and vocational be continuous shroughout. future is the British soldier, healthy men and women. In training also will be given, vOCE=
under the card system, se it is demand for the brain-building administered in European food that a double quantity bas First of all he is resolved, of these cohcole will be no desks; tional training dominating dar-
countries. The object lesson been baked this week and will be onaree, to best the German; the they will be equipped with cotsing the last two yeare.
of the Italian campaign may in ready for delivery at noon to-day." secondary kaynote of his feeling and tables, and, so far as possible,
some degree be a blessing in A score of new customers this is that we must have a better they will be arranged a that
dieguise, if it startles de into week means two some nazi week, England after the war. It will be their pupils may spend much
lime in the open air.
sn appreciation of the burdens as there is an indescribable some in power in well for those Government if they_fally realise Attendance at these schools
there camps schoolboys of the
we are to bear before we thing about the favour of the schieve our purpose. There is elliptoide that causes one to sell will not be compulsory; for we
working classes will go in great Obviously the first require. wish children with good homes to
leave the elementary school at in the London Observer numbers at least when they
Ino doubt whatever of the h's neighbour about them.
tenseity of the American people! These is no extra charge for the ment of a beiter Ebgland must be remain in them till six years of the other nations of the world as fourteen-to spend some part of follows:- better education, and, especially, age; but in the crowded district, in their general diffusion of their usual holiday, fortnight. |
in this war to a finish when pat, which is of the sort for which As I was walking along the
they realise fally what it is to there are a hundred uses in any more education for the children where mothers are generally em of the people. The impulse ployed, such nursery schools will cal knowledge and taste. If These will be orgaulted by the street with Harry, Lauder jast cost. Disaster to our Army or kitchen. The beans are all ready has helped them even in this war. local sanool authorities and will now, three middle-aged, homely
to our Navy, or disaster among for use, simply warm them and thrills the Empire. Recently a be very beneficial, especially as,
I believe soch knowledge to
car Allies, will only rotse them send to the table, serving from meeting representing 100.000 under carefalmedical supervision,
that the attendant boys will get hand and thank him. workers met in South Wales to they will be inspected daily and be a great colice to industrial controlled by schoolmasters, to women stopped him to shake h
to greater effort. The vital the pot in which they were baked, populations, who, when over- pass resolutions demanding free guarded carefully against such strained, can take refags in really some instruction, soms discipline, straightway entered into earnest importance of winning the war this being the original casserole. secondary and university educa- infcations se mens bessere give fine music. We have neglected knowledge of country life, much
some physical training, some conversation with them all. will grow stronger with os sa The luscious brown fruit sbould
"Give everything you've got !"
the difficulties of doing so be eaten with all due respect to tion for everyone who by scholes hope that we shall be able to music sadly, although we were e
"Do every
impress themselves more fully nicely, care being taken not to tic efforts shall show real deirea multitudeof children from three
upon us. But it is time we panciure's single born with the for it. Nearly all the trades to six years old, who, at present,musical people in the seventeenth open air, and the fine moral effect he adjured them.
of a well conducted residential thing you can!” fions in England bave passed are denied its solid foundation aufered so sudden an eclipse In this way the son, for ex- with all our might!" one of them century. How or why munc
Wa are giving, and doing,
should feel in our hearts what fork but to deposit them in the osm pen for each good health sa will enamong us I am at a loss to under-
confronts us."
mouth on the fat of the fork, resolutions of the mors,
1 passionate
America understands the con berking them na: with the The relationship between able them to take advantage of stand. We have a great volume ample, of a local tradesman will answered with child labour and child education later educational plans.
of wonderful folk songs, and if get definite full time schooling intensity that dislodged her eye-fidence reposed in her and the teeth but with the tongue, no at "There is the first stage; 8 have been and are being consider-
our people have bat alight en- till he reaches the age of font- glasses, while the othern vigorone- solemnising responsibility of to take to the fall ha last delicate. ed with especial care, British good physical foundation,
teen. Ha will get school-camp ly nodded their approval. ** doing a great deal more because flour of each juicy bean. children have not been kept out
open air as possible, couragement we soon shall be s
every summer till he is eighteen. "You must give still more, and of Russia's temporary withdrawal A thin and well-battered slice of the elementary school by teachers who will be part musical nation again. I believe will get eight hours' day do still more!" inviated the Scot and Italy's immediate reverees.
that through social and musical
of the Boston brown bread is con- laboar each institutions have purees, gymusatic training of sil
school every week. So, instead in whom L'Allegro and II Yesterday there went through ventionally ken between the laan 84 per ceas, attendance available kinds, schools in close education sa parts of the con- of stopping all educational work Panseroso are such close associates this city on their way to the front fifth and sixth mouthful of beane, bot, under the system which bas contact with the children's home's schools we shall raise our whole self he will continue to be physi- is fighting not just for England, Americans on edge to get into the may be left at the bottom of the tinuation system in evening when he begins to sail for bind these diye. "Remember, Amerias large number of young On rare occasiona a small quantity existed, a child, before beginning and mothers.
population to a higher standard its school day, has been permitted
within for a few years,
cally, artistically, rccationally, nor for France. She is fighting fray. They were asked if they pot, if the family is small; this to work three hours at such taeka
envied their brothers already cais fast as good when warmed over and ethically trained for several for herself!" Education and Industry. as delivering newspapers, black period:-
yeare thereafter, thee not only I have just been talking with a the other side. With one voice two or three daye Ister as the dish "Now lat as ing boots, or carrying parcels.
consider the getting the advantages of know distinguished English visitor who they answered. "We do!" will keep indefinitely, in fact it is Experience has disproved the years of age will be cared for in relationships between popular ledge, but being kept from losing knows cfficial Washington, and They became inertionlate in their like certain wines, the older the theory that such coonpation do the elementary schools. The education and industry, remem that which in his earlier youth be bad come from an exploration of entharisem. That feeling will not better, think some. no harm to school work. Reports child's elementary sobool life will bering that it is through its hea acquired.
car departmental activity lasting burn out like a fire in straw. It A few words shout the prepara- from a great number of our be roughly divided into two industry that every nation lives. Up to the Age of Marriage." some days. Earnestly he insisted will be translated into action. tion of this famous Boston dish.
school authorities periods, one from the age of six We human beings, are... each elementary
**Continuance of education up that we must bend all one Chairman Harley, of the Ship with no intention of giving away show that school work is very to that of twelve devoted mainly creatures of habit that we have to the age of marriage, which will energies to patting on the water ping Board, promises the 6,000, any screte, bu: to show resaony greatly impaired by cut-of-school to the accquisition of educational come to regard the exploitation of be possible and ought to be at the earliest date that promised 000 cone in 1918. The first four why the dish cannot successrully. employment, and especially by rudiments, and the other from children and young people in plassant and attractive under this tonnage of 6,000,000. "Washing- months of the programme will be imitated by the unintisted, the earlier than-school-hours work the age of twelve to that of four-industry as a primal necessity of sobeme, will carry adults on to tou is the most inspiring capital produca 1,000,000 tons. In 1918 prise of cost and gas among other Children who perform it reach teen, when farther and more industry's sad therefore of the that they will not have lost interset in the world," he said. "It the whole output of our yarda was ressens. In the first place you. school tired, with their minds elaborate training will be given, nation's, prosperity. I submit in educational matters when their bama sad seethes and bubbles 750,000 tone. What validates must capture the beaus at the. fall of other intereste, too often in, say, literature, foreign langu-that this if wrong,
ohildren begin to come along. with activity. News which is Chairman Hurley's promise, grocery, perhaps you will get thei ages, handwork, honsecraft (for *Youth ought not to be sab Under the old system surely too | forbidden fruit to the newspapers which might otherwise paramount.
seem right kind, perhaps not. If they **To me, therefore, it seems girls), and general handicraft for jected to industry. A nation long an interval between the is breaking every hour.
Utopian, is the fact that he has the are to be eaten on Sunday, se in obvious that the first requirement boys, both of the latter treated thrives, not through the industry school-days of the parents and
"The President is out to win backing of concerna accustomed Boston, they mast cost in cold of an efficient elementary sobool rather as methods than as sub- of its youth, but through that of the school-days of their first the war, sad to win it such a way to make good. each as the New water for 24 hours on Wednesday. system must be strict limitation jecia. Music will be ofered to its adults; and adult industry children-lapse so long that that there will be no doubt about pors News Shipbuilding Cota-This is all very easy, so far; buf of hours of labour for children both sexea.
will be perfect only in those parental interest in educational the terms..
pany, the Bethlehem Strelisten. under fourteen. Under my Bill "The third period requires fall cases in which the adult is pro- details had inevitably declined. "But we mustn't see things in Company, William Cramp and Procure an earthenware pot in no labour will be tolerated under time in the secondary schools. By perly developed in other worde, In England many girls mairy a mere roseate glory of flag. Sons, the New York Shipbuilding which to bake them and from twelve, and, on school days, none grants the Board now aids nearly in those cases in which the adult's at eighteen, having during the wagging, por as texts for a tizade Company, the Chester Shipbuild- which they are to be served. In whatever before 5 p.m., or after 8 thousand such institutions childhood had been guarded and previous on yeara lost the effects of abuse. We must
face the ing Corporation, the American i place the beans and a bank of p.m. Thus will be guaranteed giving general secondary educa-auriered rightly,
of schooling. Thus the costly grim, unpalatable facts. When International Corporation, the lean-fat pork amothered with the freedom from interference by tion..
There is a greater danger in elementary schooling has been to Joffre quid Get the troops over, ambris Best Company, the elliptoide which have been rolled employment. A night's roat will *This year we shall establish submitting youth to modern a considerable extent wasted. no wise shipping expert lifted a United States Steel Corporation, individually in molsesce (Eng intervene between any ontaide two examinations, one for second-industry than there was in sub- The girls have left school before monitory Rager and said, "Wait and a host of companies of more treadle) from New Orleans. The work the child may do and its ary school pupils roughly sixteen mitting it to that olden days, for their education has had time to a moment. Have you thought it definitely specialised function, quantity of molasres to be used. school day. In other words, years old, and one for pupils of modern industry is more monot crystallise into life habits. It is out? Where are you going to such of the Southern Pins will be determined after countless education will be first and em about eighteen. We are hopeful onous than was that of past ages. hoped that the plan will give to get the transporte for the men for Emergency Association (of failures. There is also a certain ployment second in England. that we may be able to get these The more monotonous employ- fature English girls, so to speak, the requisite supplies?""
Southern sawmill owners and definite amount of sliced raw examinations accepted as creden- ment becomes, as in the machine a light band-rail which will help
A little later I ran into a fellow lumbermen), and the Line Belt onion which must be calculated That improvement is im-tials, not only for entrance into industries of to-day, the more them from school to matrimony, who had come straight through Engineering Company.
with nice proportion to weight of porteat, but, to my mind the universities, but for entrance into important it is that is complete ensuring their keen and intellig from a point four miles 'distant
Not one of the companies nam beans. cardinal reform which the Bill various professione.
Pepper and salt to an education as possible should ent interest in the education of from Verdun,
ed is a Western organisation; tante." But it would be telling provides is the inoreses of "This might tend to relieve be given before youth entore it. their children. Na
The French want to see our and this circumstance discounts too much if more were said about tenobera' salaries. To one who the country of the great embar- And modern industry losven
The Universities,
" he said, with bluff soldier the effect of a story brought me fivouring, knows the schools as they have rassment of many institutions, (or certainly should lente) more “The next and final step in linesa. "They're very much from the Pacific Coast this morn
Bo prepared, the pot is gently been, it is apparent that instruct and we find several professions time for education then did that that sort of education in which obliged to us for the money and ing. There, I am told, one steel placed in the oven in ach, usu ors for them must be recruited agreeably disposed toward the of the old days for repetition of the Saste may properly participate the food, for our sviators of the ships week (8.000 tons) ie all ner as not to disturb the position from 8 class mentally and idea. We have a grant of 250,- procesece results in a demend for is that of the universities. Hare Escadrille Lafayette, and for our they can do. That is 418,000 tone of a single carefully placed bean psychologically better than that 000 with which to finance the and the necessity of shorter hours aot much is attempted in the new ambulances. But they want to a year. But, as the list I have The oven must have prev ondly which has been drawn from in examinations, and believe them of labour. The eight hour day Act. The British universities know where the soldiers are, and given showe, the Shipping Board been raised to a certain ten per the past, and that teaching met likely to supply the country with will be brought about through were better just before the war how soon they will be sent into is not depending on California sure which must not vary a degree be made a liberal profession two good and the roughly reliable the motony of industry. It might than they ever bad been. More the trenches. They're tired of and her sister states of the and which cannot be stated hote rather then low-grade labour. testa for its sixteen, and eighteen-not have come or been necessary learnings and culture were | biether and babble. They don's Western littoral.
for that is also a part of the scoret, With this, thought in mind, we year-old youth, ́ ́-
if industry had not developed se concentrated in Oxford and Ca o• want, any more swank,. They
And the beans must biks af that bave moured of,"new money, fonda Eflect on Pablle. Schools, & ibing principally of msetínarys, bridges than in any demen mek un to delisen the goods. They Mother of azas-Farmer.. temperatore for twenty four (24) annual +zLeuciture, £3,200,000 **Che of my predebesborr, Mr. #17 the hours of worker German merities. There will say they can sus the railey All farmer name Mix Hours Bali hem fix the pot must fan lighten coleries and pensiona Kanna i regulatico; greally do be shortened virou deformat is fiessler. They want us to kill McCarthy from Athlons relica), heinoy and shongly cooked, for the tenebere in elementary requiring that very monate must be, then a day income them. Ben the war, of entri, barthed Backen 10
giving, aridence at the land willions one bur Bonga schools, and $433,000 for teachers school sided by the Board must young-we must have education it is not likely that this will The best snower is not a glit. Court recently stated that, the
But who wants to keep an oven in's condary schools,
provide free places for elementary or we shall have chace. In include many changes in etsertering generality, but the fact of was the mother of 28 children (12. going 24 hours in these men * I believe, and an increaming school pupils up to 25 per cent. view of the industrial trend a tisl structure of method. the ceasele processional across firing) and had 22 grandchildren, when the genuine Boston number of other people are be of its total number of pupils. great increase in our educational Not improbably the fact that the sea (places and times of de- She still superintends farming beans can be co ginning to believa, that education: This gives us from car element, machinery in not more than an so many brillians, ycong univer., parture and numbers sent sup- operations on her land, and tran. Stierday #11 Pat the root of happiness for lary to our secondary schroles elementary precaution,
sity men have been killed, will pressed) 10 the tɛmining rounds pacta ostile tales at local (angiina M TAN
Better-Pald Teachers.
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The Child up to Fourteen. "Now comes the second
"Children from air to fourteen
men,
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