The Brussels Post, 1919-6-19, Page 71
WHAT SORT OF MIND HAS YOUR CHILD?
By H1+:1.1:N JOHNSON KJ':YES.
The test of good teaching to -day ]s facts in on their minds by 1110 Marr
to interosL the child. 1 love to think exertion. They know how to spell a
word only after they have written at,
and when they must spell ]L aloud
after 0 lapse of some hours their
mueeles ;,vent to write it out for them
invisibly; as they speak, their hands
and wrists move as i!' Perusing the
letters, These children ought to he
given a great deal of written work,
and should have opportunity to make
things which iiinstrete their studies,
like maps, biobes, flags, and :simple
pictures.
To theee three clauses ought to be
added, perhaps, a fourth --which, in
reality, is the one to which most of
us belong --where all these three
types of memory work together. How-
ever, it will be found, even so, that
one type rules over the others, and
is the surest approach to our under-
standing.
Even in an ungraded school there
is no reason why these three types
of children should not be taught eerie
in the manner which helps him to
remember beste At first it may ap-
pear to complicate the work of the
overtaxed .teacher, but the results
are likely to bo so good that she will
be saved much going back over the
same ground in the effort to bring
slow minds up to grade,
After some experimenting she can
determine to which type each pupil
belongs, and the method of prepar-
ing lessons can he suggested to each
individually. For - .instance, one
group, the visual -minded, may study
their spelling in silences from 'the
book; another group, those depending
on sound -memory, may be sent as far
how many children frum generation
to generation have been too hright,
Loo intelligent, too spirited to endure
patiently the deadly dullne s of les-
sons which had no 001811+ 11 to any-
thing which h•td ever entered into
their lives or ever would do so, flow
often, in the past, life made the boy
of whore the school master despaired
int() a genius, Sc'hoo1$ are twinning
more like life. There are 110 dunces'
carps in them any more, and by and
by we shall find that there aro few
heads on which they would fit.
Then schools, like life, will develop
geniuses and recognize then'.
There is always some witty of in-
teresting 11 normal child and of tearh-
ing him a number of valuable thing:.
In the elementary grades, it is true,
there cannot be a wide choice of sub-
jects to suit the individual child, for
nil youngsters must learn the three
R's anri a little geography and his-
tory. But although there is not a
wide variety of subjects to offer the
pupil, there is a wide variety of ways
in which these subjects can he
taught, so that every pupil will have
his interest aroused. The teacher
with the ability and opportunity to
find out which way suits which pupil
is the real teacher. She it is who
will have in her classes at the end of
the term the smallest number who
could wear dunces' caps.
How Their Minds Work.
A few children learn readily from
test -books. They can concentrate
their attention and remember accur-
ately without requiring to be inter- out of earshot as possible—into a
inter-
ested by however, needmettoss More chit- I second room, if the school has one—
and read their words aloud together
thing personal put into their lessons, I
something related to themselves and •in a low voice.
their homes, in order to fix their at -1 The motor -minded children—those
tentioi and memory, To do this is depending on muscular exertion—can
not the same thing as making their; copy their words on paper over and
tasks easy; they may have to work over again. The same idea is applic-
exceedingly hard over {:hent, but able to other lessons. In the case of
they are glad to do so because the geography, for instance, the motor -
problem seems seats and useful, and !minded children will need to fix their
to concern not life in the moon, but places in their minds by drawing
their own experiences. Contrary to, maps of them, whereas the visual -
general belief, children can work vena minded will see imaginary maps in
hard, and for long stretches of time, their minds automatically as soot as
if their interest has been excited. they read or hear about ptoses, and
We have discovered that there are will not need for the sake of memory
three different ways in which chil-
dren remember things:
Some remember by making pic-
tures of things in their minds and re-
calling these pictures. When they will learn by heart readily, but such
try to spell, they see the words;
!tasks as map -drawing are important
when they do arithmetic, the figures
for him—not for the purpose of pre -
pile themselves into certain forms in; paring him for a good recitation, but
front o£ftheir memories, suggesting in order to preserve him from his
the answer by the relation of one. great danger, a parrot -like repetition
number to another in thisentaliof what he has not understood or
table. Likewise,geography and his - thought about. These are the pupils
tory are reecalleedd in the form of maps, who make the most brilliant records
and pictures. Theseechildren should; in school, but often amount to no-
pe shown things instead of merely thing in life.
told about then/. The most perfect
spellers and the great mathemati-1 The community is fortunate which
chins seem to belong to this visual -1 has a teacher who is able to instruct
minded class.I11er pupils individually, according to'
Some remember by hearing 1n theirdispositions. When, however,
their minds the lesson which has been; her burdens are ton heavy for her to
read to then/ or which they halve, make this effort, a mother may help
learned in any other way. The sound her children in the work i» which
of the word is their guide in spelling they are slow, by the use of games
suited to their types of mind and
related to their studies. After the
games are once learned they will not
need her assistance in playing them,
although if she can spend ten min-
utes a day to be their comrade in this
occupation it is worth while to do so,
BUILDING A HOUSE
An Arithmetic Game
One child is a builder and is put -
though for manual skill, neatness,
and accuracy the exercise remains
valuable to them also.
The child who remembers by sound
it; and in the case of English, with
its irregular pronouneiation, this is
not as accurate as the sight image.
Arithmetic goes to a sort of tune, in
which "seven and five make twelve,"
"six times six are thirty-six," "eight
from twelve leaves four," return like
familiar airs, Much repetition aloud
helps these children.
Others remember by driving the
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Tanners SUni)iles-
ting up n brick house He draws Lhe p', --- 'r ; + a_-
franlet ork and iodic 1tes Hoot's ones! En w�,i
wi ndag:a Then along the brae• of the
house, let him draw small ohlonise
for bricks. In- clash b eek he puis al
number, anething from two to u
limey numeral, 30000,1in1 to the grade
he le in. Iie and the rllil,iren with
ylove/ he is playing build upward by ,1l'Nle 22 •
adding brleks in turn, one by one,
putting at figure in each one 111 they
lay it in. Tins figure must be 0118 in L",;;on XII. Love ---I, Cor. 13, Gol-
which the number at th, bila,' of the den Text, 1. Cat. 13: 13.
entire raw will go evenly.
In laying the roof, the ,'hinNles or 1.8. Charity, The Creek word is
Wee may begin with rather a large better translated "love;' es in the
number, and diminish regularly by Revised Version. P; itheut love the
settle given amount. Far insfnnep, other gifts are vain speaking with
the first shingle may be numbered trnrues, p1'o hr:cy, kI,o lEreal!Fii'1'atith,
three hundred and sixty-one and the self-sxrrffire. Love gr.ei ty and
next one Corr less, making three hun- Power to them 1111, makes them. sig-
next
and fifty-seven, and so on, 0Iir;�nt, great and beautiful. Teach -
The chimney we will make of frac ing, preaching, healing, giving to the
tions, and only when enough of these poor, gi0litg' life itself -alt are of.
are put together to mosso .1 whe'.c, l e account ants profit nur,d1004 ones
as eight -eighths or sixteen -sixteenths others nothing without love. Hammel;
can the next brie': be marked with a1 says that this paeeep e i:: "the gcot-
wlole number. Thus, if it is to be•est, siren• est, cicepoot thin„ Paul
built of eighths, eight bricks must ever wrote." And let us remember
be laid before the number two ap- that he was writing to the Cor`uthian
pears above the number one. If it is C'hi tetians who had spilt up into fac-
tions, and were at strife and enmity
must intervene between each whole with each other. See chapters I and
number. 5. They needed, and we need to -day,
This game will help every child's this fundamental lesson in Christian
memory. The visual -minded will ethics. If we, after strenuous years
learn the relation of numbers to one of united and heroic effort, fall back
another by the manner in which the into old ways of party strife, of inter-
national and raeial hatred, and of
1NTE1t'1A'1'1ONAL LESSON
bricks and shingles increase and dim-
inish; the youngsters of sound -mem-
ory will hear the numbers humming
in singsong fashion as they build up
the house; the motor -minded will
have the satisfaction of drawing the
bricks and writing in their numbers.
Some tiny prize for the one who
makes the fewest mistakes will add
to the children's interest.
It will help very little children who
are having difficulty with sounds in
reading to try to think of all the ob-
jects they can which begin or end
with a certain letter or a certain
combination of letters. Let one child
be "It" and ask the others in turn,
one for five words beginning with
"th," another for five ending in ing
or tion. They must answer within
a given time, say while "It" counts
sixty. Those who fail, after the game
,is over must perform any odd trick
which "It" demands of them, such as
hopping across the room with legs
tied together, or turning a somer-
sault.
The same game may be played as
an exercise in grammar by designat-
ing the part of speech which shall
begin or end with the chosen sound.
WHAT AM I?
A Geography Game
Each child takes the part of some
feature of the country which he is
studying: It may be a river, a moun-
tain, a mine, a forest, a desert, or
the cornfield next door.
The River, without telling what he
is, must describe his birth from
springs, his deepening, widening
waters, the changes in his shores and
the crops which grow along them;
his falls which give power to factor-
ies and cause the growth of a city.
The lefountain must describe the
varying vegetation upon its slopes,
the changes at the timber line mid at
the snow line, the birds, the beasts.
The Bine, may describe the building
of the shaft, the character of the ore
and its uses, the lives of the miners.
The Cornfield may tell what clover
or alfalfa did for its fertility, and
how the farmer tested the seed corn,
and what its yield was.
After each story is finished the
children guess what the object is
which has been described. The child
giving the most complete and most
truthful account of the object which
he has impersonated receives some
toy, such as a top, which be keeps
until he loses it to someone who beats
him in a future contest. The child
who keeps the trophy at three con-
tests becomes its owner.
Mrs, Winnifred Sackville Stoner in
her book, "Natural Education," has
built up n whole system of education
through games. She recommends`
ball -tossing between two people as an
assistance in learning poetry by
heart. 011e throws, saying, for in-
stance: "In clays of yore, the hero
Wolfe," and the other, returning the
ball, continues, "Britain's glory did
maintain," In this exercise, it is im-
portant to keep the ball going stead-
ily. If :it drops and is scrambled for,
the pause interferes with the mem-
ory lesson, which depends on the un-
broken rhythm of the throw and the
throw -back corresponding with the
lines.
For a motor -minded child this is
particularly helpful,
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Conserve the Moisture.
A good deal can be done to save
moisture in the way the land is
handled. fairly deep plowing opens
up the soil so rain can soak in more
readily. Plenty of vegetable matter
helps hold moisture. Plenty of avail-
able plant food enables the plant to
make more growth with a given
amount of moisture. Thole fertility
and vegetable matter are furnished in
the best feline of manuro. Weeds use
upa lot of moisture and the"needs.
grow all the tienle, they mast he kept
out, A good way to ac1Oiripiish all
this is to put one-third of the plowed
area of the farm in corn, potatoes
summer fallow( roust be kept clean
and plowed in ,Tune), and the other
two-thirds in grain. Corn or pori•
togs are plieferable to the summer
Zullow; they give it crop std leave
the soil in nearly ns good a cold ti h>7,
elaes division and jealousy and self-
seeking, the sacrifices and achieve-
ments of war will, fol• us at least,
have been in vain. It is love that
will unite tate warring races, recon-
cile classes, rebuild the shattered na-
tions, and bring in the reign of peace
and good twill.
4-7. Love "suffereth long." Love
is very patient and kind and gentle,
Love does not envy those who have
better or greater gifts, but rejoices in
their joy. Love is not self -conceited
or boastful, but is courteous, mindful
of the feelings and desires of others,
preserves an even temper, and does
not bear grudges. It "thinketh no
evil," that is, "does not keep account
of evil done, so as to remember it
andget even for• it at some future
•
John We ley, lu his ,Iournai, warns
tic hue': qs against ''an unloving, un-
holy faith 1-. not that ',earning still
neeesea ry ' From rn Kress, frum pulpit,
and from plat Prim, too often front
the 4,opuler evengc•list, we hear words
of bitterneee, hatred, and raring 00-
eueation, directed against el's••e'h, or
eehuol, or college, or any and old of
those who may hold rlitferent views
1111011/ something. The large -hearted
wiedom, gentleness, and patient love
of Christ is 1(1waye beat, and elvrays
str1nge.,t to ac'eontplislt a good work
and to - ttdve:nce the eauee of truth.
Let us be ..are 0f unloving and u11 -
lovely zeal, and unloving, unholy
faith.
It takes less time to close a colony
house door and lock in one hundred!
shirks tlrw to close right or ten brood!
coop:;. When the chicks are in the,
colony houses they are more protect -!
ed from storms and thieves of all
kinds, On rainy - days -the colony
house chicks havo a warm place tot
stay and there is plenty of chance to
serve them with clean rations, both!
in hoppers and in the litter. When!
the days are rainy it is difficult to;
give chicks in brood coops good care,
as the floors of the coops berome'
more or leas muddy and there is no 1
scratching place where the grain can:
be
scattered,
Keep plenty of fresh water before
the growing stock at all times. Note:
the thirst of a house full of broiler
after they have been denied water for,
a few hours. It proves that their sys-
tems needed water and their owner
lost poultry money by feeding a
thirsty Rock. Clean water is the
cheapest element in the poultry ra-
tion and should never be neglected.
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A huge market for Canadian farm
produce exists in Great Britain where
according to the Trade Commission
our emports only amount to 114 per
cent. of the eggs consumed; 2:2 per
cent. of the butter; and 2i.i of the
time. Love is purely optimistic, beef.
bears the present indignity or injury,
is ready to believe the best and to ®.
hope for the best, and in spite of dis-
•covet and disappointment will
coo g pp
keep on believing and hoping. And
this is not the weakness but the great
strength of love.
"Love, an everlasting crown receiv-
eth,
For she is Hope, and Fortitude, and
Faith,
Who all things hopeth, beareth, and
believeth." —Ruskin.
8-13. Love "never faileth." Other
gifts and virtues fail, but love like
God is eternal. Other graces and
attainments are parts of the perfect
life, but love is the perfect life, itself
in the glory of full manhood. In
other ways we see, but see dimly;
love sees face to face with God and
truth. When we dove we know God
even as He knows us, and we become
like Him. "The greatest" is love,
"The Greatest Thing in the World,"
MR.. FARMER
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soo Dollars
If deposited at 3% amounts to $697,78.
But it inveeted 1n our 61,,,2o/a
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A quick and very eaey way to mend
bags, and one which the men eon
do as easily as the women, is as fol-
lows: Turn the bag wrong side out,
cut patches large enough to cover
well the holes and weak spots. Make
a medium Omit paste of flour and
water, spread on patch, and press
with a hot iron. The patches will
lest as long es the hag and can be
put on in less time than it takes to
sew them.
In this era of cheap, woven -wire
fences there is no excuse for a nasty,
ill -smelling hogyard near the house,
where disease is bred, and the best
fertilizers dissipated into the air,
A far greater trade in Canadian
farm stuffs is dme in our own cities
and towns than is done abroad. This
fact is mentioned by the Canadian
Trade Commission, not to minimize
exports but to show the unrecognized
importance of our home markets.
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G1 ENSI:TIELDS AVENTJE,I � MONTREAL,
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Hypnotized MU; Defeat
J
•:It's no use, dad," ewid John Bruce,
after his father haci been urging stint
to give up a harmful habit, "the
thing'e got too firm a 11.1111 0n me."
"Harr, you ever really tried l t
bread: the loath ?" asked his father.
"No," replied the hay, "I don't sup.
pose I really have. But I just know
I sari.
"That's the answer of a quitter,
My Loy," said the father. "You are
simply hynetizing youreelf into de-
feat by taking that attitade."
"What do you mean by that?"
asked the boy.
"I mean," said his father, "that
you have the idea of defeat eo firmly
nixed in your mind that it paralyzes
your energy so that you can't try
antbing else. It's like riding a bf-
eyrie. When you are learning to ride
you sometimes gee an object that you
are afraid you're going to hit, and
the thought of it so hypnotizes you
that you steer straight for it. You
paralyze your powers of escape by
fixing your attention on the thing
you're afraid you'll hit.
"Do you remember the old Bible
story in which Samson set out to
free the Jews from their enemies, the
Philistines? The Jews said to him,
`Knowest thou not that the Philis-
tines are rulers over us? They had
hypnotized themselves into submis-
a:ion Sampson made a desperate ef-
fort to break the spell of that idea,
hut all his plans ended Eike a wet
skyrocket. No one could do any-
thing with people who took their
slavery as an aviomatie thing."
"Yes, but supposing they couldn't
help taking it that way?" protested
the boy.
"No one has a right to believe that
he is defeated until he has tried, if
his cause is just" replied the father.
1 "No man has a right to shelter or
excuse his moral failings on the basis
of a foregone defeat. If God isn't
stronger than sin in our lives, then
the Bible is a mockery when it says
that "He that ruleth his spirit is
better than 11e that taketh a city.'
You have been brought up to believe
in the Christian religion, and the
first thing for every Christian to be-
l'ieve is that he need not be under the
power of sin. You may have to ad-
mit the presence of sin in your life,
but you ought never to admit .its right
to rule. If you fall fighting it, you
have at least gained a kind of vic-
tory out of your struggle. But if
you supinely submit to it without a
fle'ht, that puts you into the class of
the coward. The worst failure of all
is the failure to try. None of us
knows whether his effort will bring
success or not, but he can at least
believe that it will. And believing is
half the game. Hypnotize yourself
into a belief in success instead of in
failure, and see the c':rfference! As
Goethe once said to a young plan
who felt as you do, `Ach, it's easy!
.rust blow on your hands and you can
do it!' Blow on your hands, son!
Blow on your hands!"
Our Co-operative Plan.
In our little community w0 are
learning something every year about
the advantages that may be realized
through buying and selling co-oper-
atively-.
We now buy fertilizers, coal (dur-
ing the summer), seed, binder twine,
flour, and feed which we do not raise
en our farms, some staple groceries,
hardware, etc.
Sometimes these goods are order-
ed through the Farmers' Club, and -
ngain a few neighboring farmers buy
a carloed or two of supplies together,
As we rontinue to buy co-operatively,
we find we arc able to do so to bet-
ter advantage, and coerced in finding
more dealers who are willing to sell -
direct -to tate fernier.
Our savings are not always enough
to make a very impressive. showing
when we buy co-operatively, still
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farmers many f. rminghodoing
iness can avera
ge tll
ge asav-
mg of $50 to $100 a year, and some-
!{ Another co-operative venture that
hae brought good returns was the
buying of a draft stallion as a stock-
! company proposition. Much of the ed -
,vantage of this get-together niove-
ment came through the greater uni-
t fortuity and higher grade of colts
1 raised in the community. This im-
provement of our colts attracted com-
petitive buyers and raised the slan-
t dard of the. hones kept throughout
I the community.
Our last co-operative step was a
plays whereby we circulate our anuric ,
records ti r,ugh an. egt!.itable e`x-'
change. so a citcolaii 1g library
{ t,1jjj magazinw a r nge _b_r:p lib
about thioiigh titer ietitieznee: clabss.""
Altogether we are finc'ing 111ua11sat-
isfaction in developing co-operative
enterprises, anri•not the loot oaf t e
a€ivantages reald,gd is gettingto
know litany deeightful jitople etter""
than we otherwise would,. -1R. E. R.
Nicarg1expects
t4,.tpr,inodauwe i -
1
000,000
pounds of coffee this year,
&1,000,000 pounds mere than last year, I
Trude groups of .antw itjn produe- '
ors to maighal pier toren' Toa to shape
out idef-tts lot going aftCr a bigger
sha a of the- iif"ter-wap; trade over -
6,,,, 1' i, ing favored by the Cana-'
dials Trade Commission