NATURAL EDUCATION.
“That education shall follow the natural development of the child,” that “schools of the past have been too much concerned with teaching children adult facts,” instead of helping them to live more completely and perfectly their life as children. These and similar conclusions are actuating the best of our modern educators to revolutionise their methods of educating. Nowhere is this revolution more complete than at Professor Meriam’s Klementary School of the University of Missouri at Columbia. There the three R’s are entirely lost sight of as studies per se, the pupils learning “to read and write and figure only as they feel the need cf it to enlarge their work.” Through play and stories, through observation and handwork, the pupils first become more familiar with the things they already know in part, and with the community in which they live, and then with the more distant things and places and times.
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 277, 18 July 1918, Page 13
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153NATURAL EDUCATION. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 277, 18 July 1918, Page 13
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