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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1923 27 Talks About Our Winnetka Schools By CARLETON W. WASHBURNE, Superintendent, Winnetka Public Schools. WRITING We have not been very well satis- fied with the penmanship in the Win- netka Public schools. It has for years been inferior in many cases to the penmanship of schools where writing has been made a feature. We have experimented with old fashioned classes and drills and with complete individualization of measurement and practice. Neither has produced satis- factory results. We have not been willing to give writing as prominent a place in our program as is given in the schools which secure the best re- sults. The schools of former days, and some schools now, have spent an in- ordinate amount of time on securing beautiful penmanship, only to find that, confronted with the necessity of rapid writing in modern business life, the writing frequently degener- ates. It is no longer as necessary, in these days of typewriters, to write a beautiful hand. There are, how- ever, certain definite standards which are useful to every one and should be reached by the children in our schools: Should Write Legibly Every child should be able to write legibly and rapidly. His written work should be reasonably neat. We are now making speed, legi- bility, and habitual neatness of written work the three standards for pro- motion in penmanship. The stand- ards of speed and legibility must in- crease steadily as children move up in the grades. All written work, to be accepted, must be neat. The standards for speed are those to be attainable in schools in various parts of the United States. The standards for legibility are high--after all there is not much use in writing if what you write cannot be read. The stand- ard for neatness is the teacher's per- sonal judgment. A paper with blots, with many crossed out words, or with very irregular writing will have to be rewritten in every case and in every subject. As to the fomal drill in penman- ship, to enable children to reach these standards, we fortunately have se- cured some light very recently. Pro- fessor Freeman of the University of Chicago has been making a study of the psychology of penmanship for several years. He has just published a book in which he not only explains the psychology of penmanship, but gives detailed drill exercises for every grade. Our teachers are now supplied with Professor Freeman's book and are applying his principles to the training of the children in Winnetka. Teach Children to Print When I was in England last winter I discovered that a number of schools are teaching children to print. The printing is very legible and attrac- tive. The teachers claim that children learn to print much more easily than to write. They claim further that be- cause their printing looks like things they read, children naturally spell much better when printing than when writing with the usual script. The question of course arose im- mediately in my mind as to whether it was possible to print as rapidly as to write. Fortunately, the English teachers who have been interested in this system had put the question of speed to the test. Careful compari- sons have been made of the speed of children taught to print with that of children who use the ordinary script. The children who print actually write more rapidly than those who use script. I brought these results to the attention of Professor Freeman of the University of Chicago last summer. He made a comparison of the English results in speed of printing with our American results of speed of writing and found that they compare very favorably. We have here in Winnetka a con- crete example, of this. Qur Mr. Beatty has for years printed much of the time instead of writing. He was doing some advanced work with Pro- fessor Freeman this summer at the time that I called Professor Freeman's attention to the English method. Professor Freeman had him make a number of time tests of his own rate of printing and writing, and also had several other members of this ad- vanced class do likewise. While Mr. Beatty, by writing illegibly, was able to go a little faster with script than with printing, his rate of printing was surprisingly rapid; it produced a legi- ble and very attractive manuscript in almost as short a time as his faster, rather illegible script. I wonder if, after all, our ultimate solution to the question of penmanship may not be found in adopting the plan of teaching children to print. "MAN COMPOUND IDEA OF GOD" Lecturer Dwells on Subject In Address Here Editor's Note: Accompanying is a summary of a lecture given at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Wilmette, Tuesday evening, December 4, by Miss Margaret Murney Glenn, C. S. B., of Brookline, Mass., member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. By MARGARET MURNEY GLENN, C. S. B. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes, "The specific quest of Christian Science is to settle all points beyond cavil, on the Biblical basis that God is All-in-all" (Miscellany, p. 181). If we accept this Biblical basis of God's all- ness the logic and demonstrability of the Principle and rules of Christian Science will be apparent, Divine Truth must be All-in-all be- cause nothing that is unlike Truth or, in other words, is untrue, could possibly have real existence. Christian Science teaches that we can know God as Mind only through the ideas that express Mind, such as ideas of love, of life, of strength, of beauty, and of holiness. 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Mrs. Eddy states that man is "the compound idea of infinite Spirit" (Sci- ence and Health, p. 591), also that he is "the compound idea of God, including all right ideas" (Science and Health, p. 475). Mind manifests itself as ideas, so man is the manifestation, reflection, or image and likeness of God. That which enabled Jesus to heal, live, and love as he did was his knowledge of the true spiritual idea of God and man. Christian Science teaches that this spir- itual idea is the Christ. The fact that all Christian Science healing is accomplished from the basis of God as the one and only Mind elim- inates the possibility of its being hyp- notic, for hypnotism is the control of one mind by another and necessarily in- volves more than one mind. 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