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For 4fe««c News ftead The FofaqJ
HowardJ. Rogers, chief of the de
partment of education: To justify the
preparation of an educational exhibit,
where neither the incentive for gain
nor the brilliance of the exhibit enters
largely into the problem, its value to
the public and the state must be dem
onstrated. The questions we most
often hear are: What can you exhibit
in education, and what is the value of
an educational exhibit. Concerning
the latter point, the only way to judge
the future is by the past. Without at
tempting in this brief article to trace
the conditions which rendered possible
the result, we may cite the following
more prominent examples,—The Cry
stal l'alacc Exhibition in London in
1851, which led to the establishment of
the school for industrial art at the
South Kensington Museum the edu
cational exhibit at the Centennial Ex
position of 1876, which led to the in
troduction of manual training in the
public schools of this country, the in
troduction of shop work as a part of
the curriculum in technical schools,
and the beginning of the training which
has rendered possible the rapid ad
vance of this country in arts and crafts
the reorganization of primary educa
tion in France as a result of the edu
cational exhibit at the Paris Exposi
tion of 1878 the rapid growth of man
ual training and industrial art instruc
tion as a result of the impetus given
by the Chicago Exposition in 1893 the
action of the French government in
arranging to send students anually to
this country for the study and investi
gation of our industrial and commer
cial methods as a result of the United
States educational exhibit at the Paris
Exposition of 1900.
VALUE OF AN EXHIBIT.
Briefly, the value of an educational'
exhibit lies in the opportunity for com
parison. Methods of administration,
methods of teaching, equipment of
schools and colleges, courses of study,
with the demonstration of the theory
which underlies their construction and
the results which attend their enforce
ment. are brought side by side from
every quarter of the globe for the in
vestigation of the student. It is not to
be expected that every great exposi
tion will mark a decided change in edu
cational methods, even in one depart
ment, but the sum total of suggestive
material taken from an exposition to
every state and country in the world,
and directly reflected upon the growth
and development of that country, is be
yond calculation.
The preparation of an educational
exhibit shorld be made for the ^ole
purpose of appealing to the scientist
The information which the educational
expert needs, and which he comes to
the exposition to find, must be afford
ed. Experience has proven that the
exhibit which meets the scientific test
and criticism most strongly appeals to
the general public.
One of the great innovations in the
exhibit features of the St. Louis Ex
position has been the endeavor to
make it an exhibit of processes. So far
as possible, this has been introduced
into the educational department. Lab
Oratories in operation, domestic
sciencc and manual trainig schools
where pupils arc at work, and the ac
tual instruction of the deaf, dumb and
blind will be special features. Further
than this, the "live exhibit" can not
successfully be carried. The "spirit"
of the school room, is one of
the roost essential features in
trainng, it tborou«hly jH*t toiKgfet
EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT
For ibe First Time Education U Given the Leading Place at an Ex*
position—Five Acres of Floor Space Devoted to ExhibitoFroi
the States and Countries of the WorlflL V
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precisely the
same way that it is fatal for a speaker
to underestimate the intelligence of
his audience, is it fatal in an education
al exhibit to .attempt to popularize with
the intention'of attracting the crowd.
NATURE OF EXHIBITS.
The exhibit of a city or state, or-*
'university, should have as its central
object the demonstration of the value
of its course of study. The latter con
tains the best thought and experience
evolved from the trials and experi
ments of generations. It marks the
differentiation of school systems and
universities, and should be made the
chain to which every item of an edu
cational exhibit should be attached for
illustrative purposes. The machinery
of an educational exhibit is necessarily
limited, and must consist in general of
charts, photographs, printed matter,
maps, models, apparatus and speci
mens. These heads are general, and
perhaps the three most important are
charts, photographs and printed mat
ter. Thousands of dollars can be ex
pended to good advantage in the mas
terly grouping of facts ami their gra
phic presentation to the public eye.
An examination of the census reports
of the United States is almost un
meaning to the average intelligence
without the comparative charts accom
panying them. The use of instantane
ous photography has rendered it pos
sible to present a series of actual pic
tures of school life and methods, which
is only a little less satisfactory to the
student than actually witnessing the
operations. The entire work of a class
in a chemical laboratory, for example,
may in a dozen photographs be accu
rately and completely told. The school
accommodation of a city can be set
forth in a series of photographs with
perfect accuracy. One exhibit differs
from another in the skill with which
these photographs and combined and
made to tell the story. A printed ser
ies of monographs on the most im
portant phases of a school system or
of the work of the department of a
university are almost indispensable, as
a corollary to the exhibit. The thing
for which the United States exhibit at
Paris, in 1900, will be longest remem
bered was the scries of monographs
covering every phase of education,
from the kindergarten to the university
prepared by experts in the various
topics. The exhibits illustrated the.
monographs, and the monographs ex
plained the exhibit and established the
scientific unity of the whole.
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tion by pupils are those which demand
the constant use of band and eye, i*
well as brain.
POSITION OP EDUCATION.
In the Paris Exposition of 1900, cdu*
cation was made the first group of the
classification, in accordance with the
theory advanced by Commissioned
General Picard, that education was the
source of all progress. The St. Louii
Exposition has followed this precedent
but has gone a step further and inadd
education the keynote of the entire ex*
hibit classification. The attitude ol thd
exposition authorities towards the de+
partment of education has from the bc^
ginning been one of sympathy and lib!
erality. It is the first exposition cve$
held in which a separate building has
been assigned to education. Even iii
Paris, where the sympathy for letteri
is much higher than in this country
and where the status of the student and
the scientist ranks above any otheif,
class of society, most of the education*
al exhibits were placed in the gallery!
of the liberal arts building. The palactf
of education at St. Louis is in the veryh
center of the exposition activities, bori
dcring upon the Goo-foot avenue lead
ing to art hill, and upon the mairf
transverse avenue. It covers 210,00O
square feet of grourvd, approximating
live acres, and is designed in modern
classic style. It cost $350,000, and th«j[i
architects are Eames & Young, of Stl
Louis: Its purely classic lines rendcf
it, in the opinion of experts, the most
beautiful building in the "expositioi^
picture." 1 here are available for edu$
cational exhibits 156,670 square feet ot
space, net, of which 43 per cent is de~:
voted to foreign educational exhibits^
There are 110 galleries in the build£
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OBJECT OK EXIIHUT.
Tfce object of the educational exhibit^
as announced by the chief of the de
partment in circulars, is two-fold first,
to secure a comparative exhibit from
all countries of the world noted for
educational effort second, to present
a thoroughly systematic exhibit of all
phases of education in the United
States. Both of these objects seem as
sured.
FOREIGN PARTICIPATION.
I he following foreign nations Wvc
applied for space and are preparing ex
hibits, in accordance with this plan:
England, France, Germany, Russia,
Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Japan.
China, Ceylon, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil,
Argentina and Chila. The ethics of
exposition practice render it impossi
ble to make public at the present time
the distinctive features of these vari
ous foreign exhibits, but the plans filed
with the department of Education give
satisfactory evidence that the exhibits
will be of immense interest to the
American education and general public.
DOMESTIC PARTICIPATION.
The classification adopted by the ex
position authorities is as follows:
Croup 1--Elementary education.
Group 2—Secondary education.
Group 3—Higher education.
Group 4—Special education iia fini1
arts.
Group s—Special education, in agri
culture. "./J
Group 6—Special education in. com
merce and industry.
Group 7—Education of defectives.
Group 8c—Special form of education
—text books, school furniture, school
appliances.
Of the space devoted to domestic
education, 47 per cent has been assign
ed to states and cities for their public
school systems,
22
per cent to higher
education, 13 per cent to technical and
agricultural education, 4 per cent to
art education, 6 per cent to education
of defectives, and 8 per cent to miscel
laneous educational agencies and to
commercial firms. Thirty of the states
of the union have been allotted space
and have their exhibits under prepara
tion. Every section of the country is
represented by these states, and in ev
ery state a generous portion of the leg
islative appropriation for participation
in the exposition has been assigned for
the educational interests. Five cities
of the coutnry, New York, Chicago, St.
Louis, Cleveland and Indianapolis, will
make independent exhibits, showing
the perfection to which municipal
school sytems are brought. The first
three mentioned will illustrate the
highly complex system of a large city,
and the latter two are typical of the
smaller cities.
One of the most interesting exhibits
will be that of the agricultural and me
chanical colleges and experiment sta
tions of the United States, which is be
ing prepared under the special appro
priation of $100,000 made therefor by
congress at its last session. Many
working laboratories will be maintain
ed in this exhibit.
In the university section of the ex
hibit, which occupies one of the quad
In the department of higher educa
tion of women, the participants are
Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Smith
and Mount Holyoke.
A special feature at the St. Louis Ex
position will be the art school exhibit,
in which space has jbeen granted the
fettling art schools of the country, such
the St. Lotiis School of Fine Arts,
Ajrt Institute of Chicago, Art Student's
rants of the court, as opposed to the system exhibited. The infUience
other three quadrants occupied by for- which the department of education may
eign exhibits, are grouped the more exert upon this leading problem of the
prominent universities of the country.
Among these are Harvard, Yale. Col
umbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Vir
ginia, Chicago* Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Missouri, Washington and St.
Louis. Nearly all of these exhibits
will be departmental in character, al
though some may emphasize particul
arly the work of one or two depart
ments. The work of the polytechnic
schools of the country will be present
ed by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Troy Polytechnic Insti
tute, Purdue University, Pratt Insti
tute, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
and others.
Fine Arts, Boston, and Boston "Nor
mal Art School.
Reference has already been made to
the exhibit of the actual work of
schools for the deaf, the dumb, and the
blind, whicli is to be maintained by
the convention of American instructors
of the deaf, and the American Associa
tion of Instructors of the Blind.
Another feature of the educational
exhibit* will be a lecture hall, with a
seating capacity for 250 people, fitted
out for stereopticon and lantern lec
tures, in which the during the exposi
tion special lectures and talk will be
given by educational experts from dl!
parts Of:the world.
ALLOTMENT OF SPACE.
The tentative allotment of space
was made in the department of educa
tion on Sept. 1, 1903, in order that
schools and colleges might have at
their disposal the entire scholastic year
up to the opening*of the exposition for
the preparation and installation of their
exhibit. The palace of education is
now completed (Nov. 15, 1903), includ
ing the rooting of the court, and ready
for the installation of exhibits. The
exhibitors in all countries have been
notified to this effect, and will be held
responsible for any incompleteness in
the building on the opening day. We
consider it doubly important that the
exhibit of the first department in the
classification shall set the example to
the entire division of exhibits by being
ready for insepction in every detail on
April 30, 1964.. ...V
SIGNIFICANCE OF'THE EXHIBIT.
The scope of this article does not
c'all for more extended description of
the exhibits in detail, and only a gen
eral forecast of the installation of the
department has been made. We feel
confident t-hat the loyalty of the edu
cational interests in this country and
the interest shown in the exhibit by
the education authorities abroad, has
resulted in a symmetrical and thoro
ughly scientific educational exhibit, of
value alike to students and the gen
eral public.
'I he twentieth century will be noted
for the struggle between natiops for
commercial and industrial supremacy
At times an appeal to arms will be
made, because of a clash of interests,
but the nations who will win, and who
wiii control the trade of the world will
be those who train their future citizens
from the standpoint of efficiency. The
test which will establish the higher ef
ficiency will be that of success and
the nation whose system of education
gives1 to its citizens bj*eadth of odserva
tion, power of adaptation to emergen
cies, and ability to do things, will stand
pre-eminent in the educational and
commercial world. The importance of
this question and the keenness with
which it is appreciated give the key
to the interest Tidt by all nations in the
educational exhibit at the" St. Louis
Exposition and
the meaning of the
value of a clo*e comparative study of
scientific and eonflirierci£l world is the
warrant for the expenditure made up
on it.
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