The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], May 16, 1915, Page 7, Image 7

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‘The Exceptional Child; Causes and Helps,"
i, Is Theme of Miss Gardener of Troy Normal
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^.mong Alabama educators are sev- I
il women who are recognized not
iy as capable teachers but as ex
lJ»tionally well qualified instructors
O* teachers. Of these women, one of
gj? most distinguished is Miss Oather
(ji Gardener, pripclpal of the depart
B.nt for training teachers, in the nor
al school at Ttoy. Miss Gardener's
^>rk is now felt throughout the state
yjierever teachers from that school
tive gone and wherever there arc
^achers who have studied in her dc
IVtment at the university summer
h<^ol Miss Gardener has been ven
ded with the latter for several sum
, fers. and her department there is al
* c4ys a. popular one. She is a thought
Sj student of child nature as well as
able instructor in pedagogy and
]hool management, and so a diseus
f*on from her on "The Kxeeptional
Bhild" is of interest to teachers,
^fcrents, and to others who make a
:udy of psychology or of children.
1 . In speaking of the exceptional child,
"•“•ss Gardener says: ‘‘I take It that the
{I optional child may be either above
* L vv the average supernormal or
)| || | al, the exceptionally bright
the exceptionally backward,
ft f these is difficult to deal with
I present crowded routine ol
\ iuties.
ver. I am here saying nothing
l exceptionally bright child and
^ -jj >tlng my attention in this dis
a fS e\VS ^ exceptionally backward
J 1., Id. I shall ulso exclude those chil
M dren, who, so Mark Twain says, are
| "horn short** mentally or morally—
those unfortunates for whom there is
| no hope save in special institutions
* where experts have been trained tc
1' deal with special classes.
"The class of children I am here dis
j cussing have some possibilities If pa
tiently and intelligently dealt with. 1
» shall venture to say that there is m
} school but has one such child out ol
every 10. These are the children thai
exhaust the nervous energy of the
teachers, that hold back the average
child, that put the schedule out ol
commission and who, filially’, because
they feel their feebleness and are sen
sitive to cutfs from classmates and t<
frowns from the teacher, turn dog
4 gedly away from the school and say
‘1 hate school and I’ll not go anothe;
day.' What a relief to the teacher am
tlie class, hut what a loss to a life!
"I should say that the pupils win
are very much retarded in their men
tal growth are under one of the thre<
heads: First, those who have poo
home advantages or rather have no en
muragement from the n<yne; second
those who have some physical defect
third, those whose quality of mind re
quires the most concrete treatment.
"The first class touches the methe
. h'art of any true woman, and she wil
t take every opportunity to understand
the child and to try to make hint un
derstand himself. She is 'In loco pa
rentis’ indeed. Ho needs buoying up
not censure; love. not frowns;
friendly touch, not a cuff. It is will
that kind that a teacher needs t'
realize that she is in the schoolroom t
teach a child, not a subject. Usuall,
children of this class are late in enter
ing school, miss a greet many day
during a term, and drop out before th
session closes; hence their returdacior
V They have no outlook on life, no be
lief in their own possibilities, no al
luring visions of a- future.
"With them the creative power of
teacher is taxed to its utmost, for th
germ of ambition is necessary befor
aught can be accomplished. She mua
work from within, outward. Nothing ca
he accomplished from without. She mus
build upon the native instincts of th
child, the natural instinct for emulatloi
initiation, curiosity, play, and such trait:
By these she may discover the child t
himself.
"The second class are those whoa
progress is retarded for physical reason
—deafness, poor eyesight, adenoids, ei
larged tonsils, poor digestion, or defet
tive teeth.
"The teacher once considered the phy
gical nature of the child as entirely on
of her sphere, but this is not the cas
today. She realizes that the physical i
the basis for the mental, the two eanne
scientifically he considered apart. ‘No
soul helps body more than body soul
Knowing the importance of the physics
1 rhore clearly than the average patror
it is a matter of duty and consoienc
for the teacher to place the child's ca.«
ss forcibly and tactfully as possible be
Aunt Sally’s Advice
To Beauty Seekers
Lydia says: 'Tve tried most every
thing for my freckles, but can t los
tbeni. What do you suggest?' See an
swer to "Stella." The treatment suggesi
od I've never known to fall In any cap
of freckles or other cutaneous blemlsl
p J. K. asks: "Is there anything bcl
ter than massage to remove wrinkles.
Too much massaging may aggravate
wrinkled condition, tending to softe
and loosen the tissue. I advise bathln
the face In an astringent lotion made b
i dissolving an ounce of powdered saxc
Ite in a half pint tvitch hazel. This Is rt
markahly effective.
Stella writes: "My complexion Is hoi
ribly muddy. What shall 1 do for it:
(Jet an ounce of mercolised wax at you
druggist's. Apply this nightly like you
use cold cream, washing it off morning
This will cause the offensive cutlc!
gradually to make way, by a process <
gentle absorption, for the clear, velvet
healthy-hued skin underneath.—Woir
an's Realm.
Bf FLORA M1IAKR llAKKISO.N
fore the parent. This will not be so diffi
cult If she has previously organized her
patrons into a community welfare club.
The question of health is the subject shi
aPks for discussion. She gives out in
teresting material for different members
to read and report on. As a reader
would say, she has created her atmos
phere,’ and any particular case will be
more intelligently understood. First u
teacner must understand these matters,
and second she must Know how to present
the subject to her patrons. Oh, a teacher
now must be a power, to be suffitcent
for all those things. Any teacher who
has observed a case of adenoids belore
and after treatment could never again
teach two weeks without making an effort
to save a child suffering with this trouble.
It works as a miracle.
“On the other hand a teacher must be
careful that the conditions of her school
room are not conducive to ill health
Poor lighting, desks facipg the wrong
way. improper ventlfation. the bucket and
dipper, cleanliness of schoolroom and of
dinner basket or pall, all of this she must
understand and must make as nearly
right aa possible.
“Children ha\e been classed as dull,
who merely had a defect in the eye.
Glasses, fitted by a specialist, might have
easily corrected the matter and have,
made the child’s school Jife immeasurably
more successful and happy. Others have
been considered stupid who have really
been deaf from having adenoids. Others
have been nervous and inattentive and In
capable of concentration of thought be
cause of poor digestion as a result of
bad teeth or mal-nutrition v
“I have known a teacher who made her
1 pupils so enthusiastic on the subject of
canning that a large club was organized,
but the subject of cleanliness had been
so neglected that she was shocked, upon
making a visit to nne of the homes, to
find every law of sanitation violated. As
a result, all members of the family were
ill with sore throats, Fore eyes, and sore
mouths. It is the vlpits to the homes
that make the teacher realize the futil
ity of the three ‘RV unless tihere be
joined with them health in every phase
of home and school environment.
“The third cause for retardation is poor
methods in use by the teacher. Methods
are for the weak pupil, not for the strong,
for the dull anil not for the bright. A
bright child is no credit to a teacher.
He learns without her assistance.
“From data that lias been gathered, re
tardation las been lessened in school*
using the improved methods, especially
in those that have become kindergarten
ized. When the educational value ol
play is recognized and also the domi
nance of ihe constructive instinct in hu
man nature, when the great psychologica
truth that the eyes and the finger tip*
i are the nourishing points of Intellect, an<
w'hen the idea of motivation of all schoo
■ activities has taken hold of school prac
tices. then retardation figures as an ae
cident rather than as a customary fea
ture. It is an established fact that chil
dren trained in a kindergarten maki
much more rapid progress when the:
enter school than do those wdio ente
without it. There are so few kindergar
1 tens in Alabama that it is more encum
I bent upon primary teachers to stud:
kindergarten methods and to try to adop
some of them. The expression is of par
amount importance—drawing, -cutting
i clay modelling, representing ideas on th
i sand table, paper construction and sew
ing. All expression work lias a quicken
» mg effect on the mind, sharpens the wits
and stimulates the brain processes. It 1
a poor teacher who gives a child fron
5 seven to 13 years of age nothing excep
■ a book to hold and who puts him On
bench to dangle his feet and who then ex
peets him to grow. That is a fine proces
of incurring arrested development. Re
tardation can be the only outcome.
i “Our knowledge of child nature an'
' mind is too unscientific, it is pitifully
' cruelly crude. Much is to be hoped fo
t in such scientific research as that give
i to the subject by Binet of Paris. He an
t Simon, also a Frenchman, have worke
5 out a s.vstem of mental tests, based o
i. age. by w'hlch a teacher may very aeci
'<• lately find a child’s stage of develop
5 ment, and also the special point of retai
dation. The experiments begin with th
e three-year-old child and extend throug
* the thirteenth year.
"As an example, part of the ^est for ;
■ child of six years is a« follow*:
1. Hold up your right hand. Touc
- your left ear. Touch your right let:
t Tou^li your left eye.
' 2. Repeat, ‘I saw twfo horses pulling
* wagon on a very steep road.’ (Fifteo
i syllables.)
r 3. ’You know what a fork is. don’t you
Well, what is a fork? A chair? A horse
1 (If the child state the use of material
. about which he is asked, ho is passer
4. ’Do this for mo. Take this key an
>* place it on that chair, then shut th
- door, (pointing to the door) and brin
me that box. (The person giving the tog
* is to be sure that the child perceives th
objects mentioned in this test.)
5. ‘TTow old are you? When is you
birthday?
R. ‘Is this mobbing or afternoon? Is i
the afternoon or the morning now?
"This, it seems to me.” continued Mis
‘ Gardener, “is approaching mental dove
opment in a very positive way. Th
subject is only in its infancy; but let u
e hope that, as science is making sue
* strides in every department of life, oduca
tion will receive its due share of atter
^ tion and that teachers will consider a
;1 discoveries which appear to put teaehin
£ upon a scientific basis with open mind
V and serious hearts."
Fewr schoolroom activities of Troy nor
rral have been more thoroughly enjoyef
have had more concrete results, or hav
•• done more real good for those studvin
r pedagogy than did the geography exhib:
arranged and conducted by the junic
1 class of studeYit-teachers.
j Miss Gardener planned this work t
s- create an interest in the study of gengra
. phy and to demonstrate to the student*
soon to b© teachers, that this suhjec
is one in which a pupil may find real
pleasure. When the work was completed
the attitude of the class toward this study
bad changed from a feeling that it was
a useless memorizing of names and that
map making was a device for filling up
time and for giv.ng work to students who
were not inclined to use their bra ns to
a realization of the fact that geography
is one of the most vitally Interesting
tuinu) ol the course.
The exhibit was begun by Miss Gar
d*!Ui's asking the members of the junior
class to gather products of different sec
L.uus of me i nued States, In connection
with their study of this country. The
members of the class were divided into
groups, each group being assigned a given
| section of the United States, with the in
! structions that they were to gather all
material suggesting products ard indus
tries of their \anous sections and all In
formation pertaining to them.
Several pupils had friends or relatives
in distant states and to these people they
wrote for material. In other instances
they wrote to the normal schools of other
slates, explain.ng their purpose in asking
for articles from those places,
i Those students who were assigned New
Kr* gland obtain >1 specimens of marble,
two grades of granite, several blocks ol
maple sugar, tonacco and some sardines.
A feature of their part of the exhibit
was a representation of a maple sugar
camp, showing the process of sugar mak
ing.
From Chesapeake bay. the greatest
oyster bed of the world, the students re
ceived a quantity of oyster shells, and
they became interested in the o.s ster in
dustry and learned more than they had
ever known of the extent and important*:
or that work. Another exhibit from the
f middle Atlantic states was a sand tabl«
and card board representation of an ol1
j weil and a blast furnace of Pennsylvania,
j two of the principal industries of the sec
| tion. Baltimore state normal sent apples
I The group working on the southerr
I rtates arranged a mlnature cotton planta
tion, as being typical of the eastern divi
sion of the southern states. Smith Caro
lina having sent Sea Island cotton anc
farm seed. Near the plantation was a
ginnery where a tiny wagon was being
unloaded. Close by was a warenous*
where tiny bales of cotton were stored
On a sand table was a minute and ac
curate reproduction of Mobile harbor
some of the students who were moai
! familiar with that part of the state tak
ing Infinite pains to arrange this. Dauphir
J itmiiia. with its tall lighthouse, and For
I Morgan and Fort Stevens guarding th<
j entrance to the harbor were prominen
I figures. The display from this settlor
j was naturally larger than any other, anr
i a variety of products were shown, stu
dents from adjoining states and frorr
every part of Alabama being able to nd<
something. From Florida there were i
branch of oranges, grape fruit, sponges
j choral8 and shells.
For the western division of the south
jtrn states, a sugar plantation was showi
; and the entire process of making suga
’ from cane was made clear through thi;
representation. Louisiana sent n head o
sugar cane seed.
From Hot Springs, Ark , a diamond rod
was sent. It proved to he a curioslt;
land to call attention to the fact tha
! even in one’s own section there are man;
1 tilings that are little known.
* The group of students collecting ma
terial and information from the centra
‘ states worked out a typical farm an
' harvesting scene, and learned more fror
’ their work with that than they had fror
1 repeated recitations from textbooks. The
1 secured, also, som*‘ rocks from Mammot
1 cave, as one of the natural wonders o
' the world, and a canoe from Sault St
* Marie.
Irrigation was a subject worked u
by the group assigned the Rock
^ Mountain states. They showed on
* sand table the process of Irrigation a
1 practiced near Denver. In contrast wit
] this modern phase of western life, wa
: a real Indian suit. It was lent fo
1 the exhibit by a citizen of Troy. I
1 was made of bison skin, and with i
' was a quiver for arrows and a cas
for the Indian bow.
In studying Utah this group foun
* that they had ample opportunity i
1 bring oiit some points about which th
class knew little. They' found that th
L people of Utah are very successful i
raising sugar beets and alfalfa on ir
1 rigated land, and from that state the
* were sent a sugar beet and some al
falfa seed From Arizona an orungt
1 a lemon, and a grapefruit were sent.
1 At this time it was of course easy t
y turn attention to the Pacific ex pc
; sition towns. Golden Gate, the entranc
’ to the San Francisco harbor, wa
* shown on a sand table, and the ^o
Semite valley and other well know
1 points in California were shown.
p The detached possessions of th
* United States proved to be interestin
* subjects for study and representsior
5 An Alaskan scene was shown in minia
ture, a snow-covered house stand in
1 among some scrubby' trees, a reindet
nearby, several men fishing, olnci
* hunting gold, and still others haulin
logs to a sawmill. From the capita
5 Juneau, were a flower and a piece c
gold.
* Another group of students took th
s Philippines. They showed an abac
1 farm scene, the abaca being the trp
‘ from whose bark Manilla hemp
' made. The several' steps in the prepn
' ration of the bark and the making <
* the hemp were illustrated by picture
n Little thought had been given to on
of the latest of our detached poasei
sions, Porto Rico, until this exhib
* was held. Then those who were pr«
t paring this part of it gathered bot
* i ii I mi mat ion and products from ther
* They found that it is only one-foui
r teenth as large as Alabama and y<
contains one-half as many people, ar
3 that the best road In the world cross*
" this island from San Juan on the nor1
* to Ponce on the south The produc
* they obtained from Porto Rico were
- cocoanut, some sugar, coffee, cigar
cocoa, and rice.
Beside these products they secure
by writing to the different sections
the country, the several groups of sti
dents of this junior class devoted
great deal of time to study of the
given sections and al the close of tl
campaign for geographical apprecli
tion of the United States they real
knew the conditions, values, and indu
tries of the different sections. Th*
prepared booklets dealing with tlsc
sections, giving the important fac
and something of the life in each. A
most evory section was represented
some way on a sand table. Some we
shown In relief maps made with stare
wherein topographical conditions we
Indicated. From every pact of tl
country were pictures, postals and ral
way maps.
The members of the class were *u
prised when they found how vitally i
tenanting this work was. It grew uni
it became one of the absorbing topi
of the ikhooh and when at length
was completed the exhibit was a
ranged and opened to visitors, mai
people of Troy studying it with lnte
c st
There In no doubt that the childn
who are later pupils of these leac
era will find in geography a subje
that they will enjoy, for the stude-n
teacher iearned thi» winter not on
facta about geography but also tl
methods of teaching it In the mo
thorough and satisfactory manner,
reflected great credit J*1®? .a®r^,n'
as teacher, and showed the high cla
work she maintains.
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From the Louisville Herald.
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"could you give a poor, starving man
bite to eat?" „
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lleve In helping disreputable vagabon
like you. Besides, from the smell of yo
breath. I t*ve every reason to believe y<
sre drunk.” . 4
! “Maybe I am, lady,” replied the tram
“But do you really believe a couple
slices of bread would make me ai
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