Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1928, Page 4

4 & RUSSAN SCAOOLS ACE YOUNG PUPLS Individuality ~ Crushed by’ Plan, Dr. Mandel Sher- l man Says. i { A land of 8-year-olds who act and! talk like adults. but of children who distribute their candy voluntarily and equably among their playmates, and wio apparently never fight—such as| the depressing of Russia and East Europe brought back by Men- del Sherman, director of the National Child Research Center here. who has! just returned from a Summer's study of primary and clementary education there. He was decidedly diseppointed at the conditions he found. Progress in the schools, he said, by no meens has been 0 notable as has been reported and the apparent object is exactly the opposite of that of American education In the United States the fdea is to develop the individuality. In Russia Austria, Poland and other East Euro- pean countrics visited by Dr. Sherman the object to to subordinate the indi- vidual to the group—to educate masses rather than men. The child is edu- caied and acts entirely as a member of he group. a general level is maintained :-’niiglx-n‘:ppar?vumm brilliant child is simply “out- of luck.” This idea. Dr. Sherman said. p: meates all the schools he visited a probably is intended to creatc an in; tense nationalism. While it doubtless will raise the cultural level of the mass. h» feels. it is deadly towards the develop- ment of special talent which is con- sidered of such importance in American education. Watched Poorer Teople. Dr. and Mrs. Sherman tr third class railway coaches Eastern Europe in order to obs behavior of the poorer people ing all this time, he said. he never saw two children fighting. frequently saw candy given to one child in a group and immediately divided among the others, and never witnessed a child “tantrum.” Also he very seldom saw 2 | child playing alone—which would have a tendency to develop the individual. The educational process, he sal much faster than in the United States | and there is a great deal of “cram- | ming.” Eight-year-old boys and girls study subjects which are not tal in American schools until the children are 15 or 16. This has resulted in a deceptive carly maturity in their co versation and behavior. When he ap plied some standard mental tests to these children, however, he found that their actual intellectual development was no greater than that of American children of the same age. Apparently remarkable progress has been made, he said, in raising the liter- acy of the adult masses, not only in Russia, but in the other countries of Eastern Europe, but the object of this has been largely to facilitate the gov- ernment propaganda. Cites Polish Example. In Poland, for instance, he found that many peasants recently had learned the bare elements of reading | and writing—so that when an airplane concealed above low-hanging clouds dropped on a village gaudily printed sheets stating that “the Virgin Mary | directed the viilagers to vote for so- | and-so” they were able to read the message from Heaven and act accord- | ingly. { Dr. Sherman visited several of the | famous “schools without discipline” in Russia, where the teachers leave the | maihtenance of order entirely to the | children themselves, and found that the idea works very well. | Despite the rigid standardization 2nd the intense poverty on every hand, Dr. | Sherman reports, the picture of educa- | tion in eastern Europe is not entirely depressing and some work is being done | which might be copied in the United | States. While school health clinics are 2imost unknown ecven small villages have child mental clinics in which the psychological problems of the children | are aided by experts and the people have come to take this as a matter of course. He was particularly anxious to study some of the groups of “wild children” who have been reported roaming around Russia, but, although given every facil- | ity, he was unable to find any and con- | cluded that they probably didn't exist. is | Farm in Family 400 Years. When Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dunca recently retired from Palmerstone an;‘ Ochiltree, Scotland, which they had oc- | cupied for nearly 40 years, they com- pleted 400 years of occupation of the place by the Duncan family. In com- memoration of the event neighboring | farmers presented many gifts to the re- tiring couple. Their son, wno succeecs them. represents the eighth generation that has tilled the Palmerstone flelds. | - l Dandelion’s Good and Bad Points. | The greatest enemy of a beautiful | Jawn 1s the golden biossomed dandelion, | which 1s able to maintain its su- | préemacy in the greensward because of | the roots that live from year to year | &nd the trouble-making habit of pro- | cucing flowers and sceds so close to the ground as to be entirely out of reach of | the mower blades. But the dandelion 1s not without good points. The flowers end buds are used in making a bever- ege. the Toots are utilized in mrmcm(',l while wie young, succulent leaves may be builed as greens or salted away in | crocks for Winter use. [ . Private Planes in England. | With the purchase of a cabin air-| plane by Capt. F. E. Guest, a member of Parliament, England now boasts | more than 100 privately owned aircraft. | A tendency is developing to buy not| only two-seater planes for private use, but much larger and more powerful craft, capable of carrying from four 10 s1x people and their baggage for long | Continental tours. | It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. | | | | | | | | asy to Pay Monthly $180 $249 £350 $300 8§30.60 $349 $15.00 $1,260 100.00 $6,009 3300.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S, Tressury B, N ken up | . | tion created | out a satisfactory measure. If the Com- | missioners are permitted to scttle claims THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. € SEPTEMBER 928—PART 1. | | Herbert Dorsey working on the ship he will enter in the national finals at Atlantic City, October 5 and 6. FAVORS AUTOISTS ® PAY PAVING COSTS Corpoiation Counsel Urges Borland Law Inquiry. istrict Miniature Aircraft Champion Dreams of Making} dF}ight in Real Plan Up in a spare room of 3708 Thirty- | the air at night.” he continued. third place, Herbert Dorsey, jr. 16- | Must be gieat fun to soar around vear-old District miniature aireraf! champion, is preparing industriously hie Bride | tiny ship for entry in the national finais at Atlantic City October 5 and 6. Little picces of wood are careful E down and adjusted in pro Josition on the craft. Later tissue pa- | per will cover the frame. for the plane automobilists [ must be light and bucyant. It must | uld share in paving costs here ha . test flights on the neighborhood its. in the opinion of Corporation ith scoies of kids as spectators. sounsel W. W. Bride, who touched on | Careful study of the wind must be mad this question e | and the tiny craft built accordingly. blic vester 1 But as Herbert works his mind is not entirely on model ships. Sometiraes b :cs himseif piloting a real plane. v I'm going to fly a real plane,” he declared “I want to pilot a mail plane through | d the way out again. " he said ent isastically, 1 I'm going to ask the Navy to take me up. he will Go it, for they ¢ ful about taki to go throug red tape be lainly are car: g anybody up. re you can even The: argument that uot.” 1 might be able to ride in one.” with that he turned back to his which ters of cial comi mile across Bolling Field v the Borland ng property owne f the cost of str wise urged a swudy es in other cities. The re- tudy. waler the corpora- tion counsel’s suggestion, would be pre- | sented to the District Commissioner. with recommendations for the relief of tax payers. The Commissioners should be em- powerad to make settlement of cla out of court, he added. With respect to the proposed sy Borland law committee and its iny gation aimed to bring som: owners of abutting proveriy pay for street paving, Mr. B “Other methods of distributing the burden of this tax might be easily pr which assessed or ing. He paving t sults of th bu Call Decatur 3795 Zone Fares for Glasgow. for home demonstration of the City officials of Glasgow, Scotland, are considering a. plan for street car fares based according to the distance | passengers are carried. The proposal | includes the dividing of the city into 12 zones. Those traveling in the first zone will he equivalent of 2 cents and those passing through the 12 zones, 6 cents. 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