A Protest Against Home Study
At a session of the International Kindergarten Union, held in New York City, April 19, Mrs. Charles N. Chadwick made the following vigorous and deserved arraignment of the present popular educational system:— “The school is absorbing the interest of the home. I would like to have my boy run in the open air. I would like him to retire early, but he can not. The work of the day must be carried into the night. I would like him to sleep when he does retire, but even his sleep is disturbed. I would like him to know and experience the best and the holiest of motives, but he has no room for motives, except to pass his examinations. I protest against home study. I protest against the delusion of the gymnasium. When a boy has spent hours, night and day, on Greek, Latin, science, and mathematics, twenty minutes twice a day in a gymnasium is useless matter crowded into our children’s curriculum.”