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Show One of the nrinoind noints lost aieht of in om workis the future of the hovs and girla on the >oserdati6n after they have lefc school. The majority uf thim do ~rorhiogto show that the work in the achwlrwm hivl been of any benefit to them. What thev need is not so lunch of hooks hut more of the nractical. Thev want not the words of the readers but the words of evervda; life. Two hhdred commm wonls wcl. lrarnerl ore worth more than twicb that many half learned, for which pu ils know only the book learning. Tha same ilea is rruewith refer+nee to mlnlber work. We do toomuch theorv 'Phis ,per was di*,!uia~,l I,;?.fr. J:B. Rrown, who stated that the use of the 10x1-boo% did uot praclndo the poeihility of teachlug tiu child a vocaholary for evervdar use in lhe varions denartmenra. Iu aririlmetiv do not n~z l r r rh arouzh drill; bn"t the child should notbe taught abstractly. Have every iroblem in tie beginning of thesubject apraotical one and let the abstract drillcome afterwards. [U. W. BBNT.] Education is the setting free of the powers of the individual and its develop-ment guided and controlled. Why has not the Indian race risen as has the Anglo- Saxon? Because the individuals composing it have depended upon external ener-gies alone to develor, them. Thev were ianorant of the ereat law nnderlvine -.hyaical nt!d ~nvnralil rvtlopment, iho law of self-autiv~ty'..T l.eir only salvi,-t~oi Ees in edutiiti<m gained by their own energetic efforts. We who tedny enjoy tlm heuelits of odaicatlon and the adv;iu:acsr of which our forerathers aero de~,r~r,,i. by exerting ourselves may serve as th; instrnments through which our race mai emerge from dependence into independence, from a supported nation into a sslf-supporting one. WHAT IS TEE DAY SCHOOL DOING? [E. W. Tnum.1 "What are you teachers doing over there?" is a qnestion often asked of day-school teachers. and to such a auestion the answer would be "Livine amone the Indlaus." Thid mearus t h ~tth e t e ~ c h r rd' o~t y la to lead the Indian tosee thi i the white mau's civilbration is tho betrcr. Tllc hdiau'x idri~th nr hemnst h;tve things .r*i ven him is not mnch ~llrfrrenftr om that of the white mau's. The difference 10 that the Indian asks openly, the white man in a roundabout way, Services ren-dered by Indians should always be fairly compensated in such a way that the Indian may see the true relation between the work done and the pay received. Indians should he taneht that civilization is something to be achieved. not some-tnlllg la b.1 thlust uydn them. - T ~ kHnow ledge 01 Englijh is not a true measnro of the Indian'sadvancement. A better criterion is tho tact that within the last few vears there has lroon rhown a tendency on the y a t~ o f the mother, to remain mor i at home at tlmea of heef and ration iasnes. Tllo olarrr people are becomtng more cleanly and the children are rommc to .ichml uurh cleaner in clothme and in uerson than in former !.oar*. These aie some of the things the day sch&ls are tiying to do, and the iesults show that the efforts are not entirely lost. In the discus~iono f this question, Mr. Root stated that the day school is going into the homes and iniiueucing them in the way that no other school can. PHYSICACULL TURE. [W.M . P ~ ~ms o n . 1 There are few who do not take vleasure in merely looking at a finely bnilt man or woman. Such a person nlwaysattractsattention, and it-is right tliat it should be so; and yet it is not right that such persons should be so rare that one wanld be noted. |
