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Ut tc-achine of skills or u. iti
actual life, is the U'acbing if
huw unl when such skills should
be employed in other words,
not only must knowledge be
taught, and an explanation of
whert knowledge comes from,
but also behavior must be taught
' tO grOUDS Of DUbllc sohnnl r,,.
runck-d fK.fsoiality.
.They are democratic living,
reading, writing, computing,
spelling,, languages, speech, mu
sic, art, listening and observing
and social graces.
pils
They are not tausrht inApnon.
Democracy Results
Technically defined, behavior
Is a combination of skill, under
standing, and attitude; in lay
man's lancniaoo t I. i .
denUy, but aU together. Asd
they are not taught for all time
or for everywhere, but, in suc
ceeding grades, for home living,
for school and neiirhVvwtuwl liv
1 of demcm-. in tot ' commuoitjr and city liv-
ing, for community and city liv-
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Public Education Part
ogsressive
odav
' By WALLACE A. SPRAGUE
ad o their elected tSJSrtLSSS. lSilLSlSES.6 mmd' ?e themselves
o education of the peSTST and deP responsibUity
JhWjUMMl ately or more com-
(jrlTan. In Mimmi Jiu ' ja. v
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years was an expanding body of
students, and what is a cease
lessly advancing concept of the
duties and the requirements of
adequate public education.
terms, of living together.
v.!? exanPl, boy is
taught the skill of playing games,
games, and a girl of singing
Jongs. But the boy must also be
taught when it is proper to play
Sames, and in what way they
should be played so that others
participating derive their fair
share of enjoyment And the girl
must be taught not only to sing
well, but when to sing, and how
much, and what The whole pro
gram, in brief, is education for
social living, for living together,
as well as merely education in
J! sPcial sense jf books and
conjogatxoris and sums.
Curriculum
As a reflection of this concept,
the curriculum of the early
grades of the Salom
been divided into 11 basic skills,
for living In the northwest.
Each skill is taught as an as
pect of living in a free land;
and also as a factor related to
other skills, as finely woven to
it as a day is joined to a full
life span.
This is the task of the school
system, of the 11 schools which
comprise it the hundreds of
teachers who teach in it board,
superintendents and principals
who direct it. It is a task which
reaches to the heart of the community.
Marion countywill-produce
practically everything grown in
the Mississippi valley, and then
you may add long fibre flax, fil
berts, English walnuts, Italian
prunes, loganberries, Bartlett
pears, Royal Anne and Lambert
cherries, hops, ppepermint, let-
A m
nice and celery.
- sister states, has high education
i ii . .
m kh ana. lae&u. Salem, as
the capital dty of the state,
maintains those same ideals, and
eks practical expression for
Ideas of education for democratic
living in Its own public school
system, v v -V
JEdncaUeai latere
TharSaIem"ttlhteres(ed In ItsT
schools, deeply interested, is ap
parent in a survey of the build
ings in which they are housed,
u well as in an appreciation
of the quality of teaching and of
learning which is accomplished
within them. - -
Dnilding
In 1939 the city' public school
system completed the most ex
tensive building program of it
I4abaa u . . .
-wuskucv. ia an, n nad arrans!- pwouc activiues.
w4 to rwH 1 11,194,- Tue Bush school cost was
w.70 on three improtant unit. $204,911. indurfin K.,ni
ue Bush grade school an tt? th mihI.ihwi ...
It was completed at a cost of
$780,706.54 of federal and local
funds, and was constructed to
house more educational activi
ties than had ever been possible
in the old location at Cottage and
Marion streets. Its auditorium
has since become in large part
city auditorium for plays mu
sical events and public perform
ance of all sorts; and its in
structional facilities have more
recently been made use of by
the federal government in train
ing workers for defense indus
tries. Aoditorian Built
At Leslie junior high, the con
struction of an auditorium wing
at a cost of $209,577.99 accom
plished an educational as well
as a community purpose when
it became available for school
and public activities.
Teaching
to thi latter field, "that is, in
the field of teaching,the Salem
Pubuc schools have been abreast
of their times under the direc
tion of present Superintendent
Frank B. Bennett
w ms
predecessor,-Silas Gaiser. More
recently much of the mm!
sion and direction of the actual
educational process in city
schools has fallen to Walter Sny
der, appointed curriculum co
OKiinatorJorthe school system
sewj.
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the Bush grade tchool on Uni-
"v ana Mission streets, the
slle junior high school at
Howard and Cottage streets, and
the seniorh igh school at 14th
-nd D streets. . ,
Of these the senior high school
involved the greatest expendi
ture and resulted in,. in some
"fP64. the greatest returns
for the system and for the community.
the acquisition of property for
BAvcnwve pxay neios and recre
ational facUiUes. Here, again the
construction of a new school
has meant added facilities for
the presentation of public enter
tainments and the holding of
public meetings.
Elsewhere, likewise, the Salem
public school system has ex
panded and freshened itself to
keep pace with what for several
IRS
We have consistently recommended
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i mm u uuier
schools conscious of recent ad
vances in educational science,
the aim of the educational pro
cess is conceived to be the
frowth of the child In all of
the areas of Uving and learning,
rather than In partciular branch
es or particular preserves of ac
ademic acocmpUshment
Hew to Live Taught
v The aim, in other words, has
been to teach children how to
l to ore
than It has been to provide them
with a weighty, and perhaps un-
j"graieo, ourden of fact and
belief. The concern has been
more with the child himself, as
an tojjduel than ith as Uen
with the subject matter taught
to him.
Practically applied, this means
that a good many things, such
as arithmetic, are taught in the
lower sr r a d nt k. i
about as they always were.
The process is somewhat re
tarded. hoWvtryMil1fln.li..4.i
table are taught in the fourth
Instead of the third grade, for
instance and there Is4 one oth.
er important exception. The
emphasis la twit mi wi i .1.
learning what equals what as it
is upon why what mu&i
in other words, skill in arith
metic is taught, rather than
merely "numbers.
Practical Skills fnliaaised
Even more ronrrtW Bn
fort is made in the Salem "sys
tem to teach km k ...m
v1 J PUPU in actual
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life. In arithmetic, for instance tT , b tte
addiUon and substraction are CArriet practically all
translated info ih nn.i..i of the nerves from th Krtn
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r'w'cuu ui. muting coange and V"IIUU3 pans oz ute body. If the
of addin
, - uv wtau- MWiw mK. out ox aajusunent
wiches and milk for lunch, ra- and pinch some particular nerve
ther than as abstract , ...
Chiropractic adjustment
vertebrae in. the spine, relieves
this pressure on nerves and is
one of our greatest factors for
good health.
Dr. O. T. nff ri.
Well known thMiiffkn.. w: '
tire district People have come to
him with a great variety of ills
and he hn Wn v,i.
vmw eww
, iwc m give
them rpllof thtvu.-rk k "
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