24 PAGES le ---- YEAR 806. NO, 94 JGH SCHOOL'S NEW PLACE | . | N ADDRESS GIVEN BY DEAN H. | TT, J. COLEMAN. Before the Ontario Educational As- In Toronto ucation Fav- sociation Conventi Free High School 'E ored. "A new place for the High School," was the subject of an in- teresting address delivered Tuesday afternoon by Dean H. T. J~ Cole- man of Queen's University before the Ontario Kducational Convention in "Toronto, The subject has recently een under discussion in the Ontario Legislature and in the public press. Dean Coleman spoke as follows: The recent announcement by the Minister of Education for = Ontario, of a scheme of compulsory education for all youth up 16 18 years of age has been generally regarded as mark- ing the beginning of a new ema in your educatpnal development. I am sute that we all agree in congratulat- ing the Minister upon the good work already accomplished and in wishing him success in his efforts to con- firm and elaborate the policy so hap- pily begun. 'Ihis' policy, which = has seemed fo many as a patural and" in fact an inevitable one in view of the changes in our soda conditions wrought by the war, and in view ot what has already been done in the same connection by othe: countries, will, it seems to me, lead eventually to cher and almost equally import ant changes, for reform of awy kind, especially so tur-reaching a reform as the one we bave mentioned, 'is bound to bring others in its train. Singe thése rerorms will come the sooner if public interest, and espec- dally the interest of the teaching profession, is directed towards them, I venture to employ" the few minutes at my disposal this afternoon in set- ting forth what 1 conceive to be the new and larger place which the high school sould (and I hope will) occupy in the lite of the future. For brevity's sake I will state my views in the form of certain rather dog- matic theses; Gaould Be Free, 1. AH High School education shoul be made absolutely free. There should 'be no tax imposed upon the ability and energy of our youth beyond what nature had already im-] posed as the condition of suceess, For myself, I Welieve that college education also should be free. RBdu- cation is one of the fow things in life which is not cheapened. by being made cheap. The more highly the truly edticated man or woman will be held in honor. 2. In all programs of vocational training there should be the closest possible articulation 'between : the newer vocational 'studies und those KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1919 | The Daily British ° Whig f PAGES 1124 } ---- THIRD SECTION HOW CAPTURED CANADIAN OFFICERS PASSED TIME IN GERMANY AND HOLLAND. 'Hollan 'cation in terms. of older studies in which the spiritual inheritence of the race is more dis ectly contained and expressed. In some way, perhaps, in some new way which we have not yet discovered, plumbing and' philosophy, cookery and poetry must learn to go hand in hand. For it would be celamity in- deseribable if in our des're to pro- duce the artisan, we neglected to produce the citizen, if through an absorption in the means of life, we forgot life itself, About Distinction, 3. |The rigid distinction between the public and the high school should be abolished." Especially should we cease to think of public school edu- an eight year dourse devoted to purely elementary Swbjeets, I think that it is .easily demonstrable that the wearisome re- view and drill of the upper forms of A A Officars Torey ace = Tre Tomi Near the .Camp One Foot Deep and Two Feet Wide Which Y the British Officers Were Permitted t Dam Note Mag Bleak Outlook - oe Ee eed nr the pulfic school course, the" post- ponement of the beginning of the so- called high school subjects till the average age of 14 years, the lack of understanding on the part of high school teachers of what their Pupils have already mastered, involves a waste of from one to two years of the school Mie of the or dinary child. These defects together with the wholly 'artificial and largely unnec- essary high school entrance examina- tion, unfits the puble school from serving in any really efficient way the » Nn Children's a N fact, they often sow in adult life, gevelops. into disorders of the heart and blood vessels and de- generative diseases of the kidneys. So if children "escape any child's disease they are the gainers in general health by just that much. It may be that years are added to their lives or chronic invalidism "avoided, Then there is the eno¥mous risk - .which every child runs who has: measles, Diseases Are Not Necessary They Add Nothing to the Well-being of the Child and Invariably Leave the System in Worse Condition Than Before They Came seed which, ---- ' some, nourishing food, and by allowing them to exercise freely in the open air. If they grow pale and weak and languid --if they fail to derive proper nourishment from the food they _eat--if their nervous systems get run down from the tax of school work--use Dr. Chase's. Nerve Food as the best means which medical science affords to enrich the blood and build up the exhausted system. \ 1 Day Sports, 191g, The Haglue, Killing Tine at Bischofswerda Session'. in Fogres ~~ a interests of democracy. For greatest danger to democracy at the! present time is not the ambitions of | the autocrat; not the sophistries of! the demagogue; not the foolishness of the 'bureaucrat, but moral indifferences and intelléctual apathy. Our greatest danger is, in a single word, 'mediocrity,' as embodi- ed in the man (or woman) who has been through our schools and re- ceived only a set of common-place habits more or less poorly adjusted to his real needs in Mie und a few sec- ond-hand notjors 'about his place in the unixerse gnd in human society. 4. And now, having examined a number of the external conditions of our work, let us engage in a little bit of profitable = introspection. What about our me{hods of teaching and their adeguacy to the demands of our jmmediate igre: I.Will 'begin with myself' &8 one' who is directly concerned ix "the training of High Schoolteachers. 1 ana professor of the Science of Education and yet 1 confess openly that often when 'we Wire dre tefm 'Science of Eduei- tion," we should place a question mark after the term. "science." It ® a Science in the making only. The data it deals with are so big, so var- ied, so intractable. Our technique in dealing with these data is as yet so inadequate. Almost every year I am compelled to modify my views upon important matters. ' Now a' science in the making is infinitely better than rile of thumb, the sort of thing we uged to go by and ie proud eof, but unless its makeshift quality is clear- ly recognized and effort is made to clarify it, it beebmes very soon a science In process of decomposition dead formula. Let me illustrate further. 'We all' know a good deal about the "question. and answer" method of instruction and perhaps we have been told that it is a mortal sin, pedagogically, not to make oon stant use of it. The discovery t this method is usually atributed to gentléman of some standing in owr profession by the name of Socrates. We all remember that on account of certain differences which he had with the local' educational authorit- fey, this gentleman wae given the opportunity of sending in his resig- nation by a given date. The verdict [WAR PUZZLES the] ponderous| retired to a residence in the and there is nothing. deader than al Camp oa XOHy/ === A A I tt NAN of the authorities was, as we know, reversed by posterity but such aetion was too Jate to be of practical use to' our friend who had permanently Lilysian Fields (or was it the 20th Plane). Now, as I study 'the accounts which remain to us of the methods of this pioneer in modern education, I find that his real concern was not to ask questions, but to answer thém, at least he arever transformed himself into a piece of rapid-fire artillery so that his pupils were driven t6 "dig themselves in" to escape his unwel- come attentions, TP li-- Teaching System Wrong. Magny thoughtful ' teachers are now begining to feel that all along wo have been putting the emphasis in the wr las We should bel a ONE Plate. on, *|deavhers. of different grades can more conderned in petting our pup ils to ask questions on their own ac- count than in the making of every lesson a logical framework of ques- tions by the teacher and answers by the pupils. So having procesded along exceedipgly formal Hnes for some twenty-five years or more, there are signs of a return to infor- mality-<after a period of silk hatsy and frock coats and patent leather shoes, as it were, we are returning to soft hats and tweeds and military boots, and 'we are, I fancy, feeling much more 'comfortable .on aceount of the change. Thus we see ebb and flow, systole and diastole, the affirm- ation of one aspect of a truth for one generation followed by the af- firmatior of a complementary aspect in another generation, yet after all the discerning student will trace a thread of continuity and of progress through it aM, You may ask what place will the university have in connection with {the tremendous enlargement of the secondary education waich recent le- gislation foreshadows. I will not venture to prophesy for Ontario, but two countries have already answered the question; one 'is the United States. There is scarcely a univer- sity or a college throughout the length"and breadth of the American Union which has not its department, or school, or college, of education. In'all the larger univ _gsities there are departments of Secondary Educa- tion whose whole duty it is to study} high school problems and to ad- vance the interests of high school teaching. There are departments dealing with the teaching of the special subjects belonging to techni- cal and vocational schools, There are also departments of elementary educition for the work of the ele- mentary teacher is segarded an an entirely sujtable subject for univer- sity t ing and investigation. There are also experimental schools as that in the University of Wiscon- sin established by State enactment for the purpose of leading the way in the use of new and improved methods of organization and teach- ing by. the high -schools of the state, " The other country is Britain. The training college' or department eof education of some sort or other is a definite part of the organization of the newer universities of Britain and in fact of most of the older ones. Perhaps most significant of all, be- cause of her reputed conservatism, is the preposed establishment by the University of Oxford of a. Depant- ment of Education for the training of teachers for secondary schools and the higher grades of elementary schools. Its general features as ow lined in the Educational Supple- ment of The London Times, of Feb- ruary 6th, would indicate a very marked resemblance to our two On- tario Faculties of Education both in purpose and in onganization. The reasons given this step are so in- stinct with | the spirit of the states- man as contrasted with that of the mere official, that I venture to quote a few sentences from The Times' ac- count by way cf closing' my re- marks: 2 "The statute itself 1s, 1n its nature, only concerned with the organization and framework of a department; but it is- hoped that it will de completed and crowned bya mew curriculum fod system of traiming in wisich share in common, and in which, while theory still finds its place practical element is still more Hfigh- ly developed. Meanwhile the intvars sity is taking such steps as jt~ to meet a national need, and -- vide its quota of the thousand of new teachers who are needed for advanc- ed elementary teaching, for work in continuation schools, and for muni- cipal secondary schools. The mover of the statute in Congregation plead- wd that there was _a hunger and thirst for education in the country, and that Oxford, as w national {ini- versity, must seek . to: meet that hunger and thirst by providing its share of the teachers of the future." It woul be well, I think, if our Ontario Universities* were able . to give so unequivocal an answer io the need of the present and the chal- lenge of the future. RAs continues t to: arrive from England. £3 Has a new and de- licioug flavour, no (dep) PE sauce just like it. Wouldn't it G50 be worth your [Vy while to try = a bottle now? 'and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, Halibut and Cod. DOMINION FISH (CO. anata Bool Heard License 'relief, surely, ¢ any. 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