One good word can
warm three winter
months.
THE ORIOLE
To be fond of learning
is to be at the gate
of knowledge.
Vol. 4-No. 5
FEBRUARY, 1925
Published Monthly by Students of Maryland
State Normal School. Towsen, Md.
SHAPE YOUNG LIFE WITH
BEAUTIFUL MATERIAL.
(Miss Tall’s February Message)
Walt Whitman understood the
Psychology oof growth and development
In a child. Do you know his
Poem: — There was a child went
Forth every day and the thing, he
Looked upon, that object he became.
And that object became part of
him — the family usages, the language,
The company, the furniture,
The yearning and swelling heart, his
Own parents, the streets, man and
Women crowding fast in the streets,
The village on the highland, the
Schooner, the strata of colored
Clouds; these became part of that
Child who went forth every day, and
Who now goes, and will always go
Forth every day.
Sometimes I think children are
Going forth in our school day by
Day never looking upon real beauty
—the beauty of a comforting, clean
Room, of a beautiful, soft-tinted wall;
Of a lovely color print hung to catch
The soul’s eye and satisfy the spirit.
Sometimes I think all the world —
Particularly the children in our
American schools are acquiring the
Obnoxious habit of using a strident
Voice because the teacher’s voice fails
To be soft, controlled, rich in tonal
Quality, and beautiful to the ear.
Have you ever listened in the corridor
Of a school like ours between
Classes? What will the voices of the
Children of the next generation be
Like if Whitman is right? The
Things we look upon, the sounds we
Hear, the sights we see — those objects
We become.
Sometimes I think the love for
Poetry and the love for reading
Poetry just for ourselves, or to a
Dear friend, is becoming a lost
Possession. I wonder whether it is
Because of the very set and academic
Way in which we dissect and analyze
The poems we think are teaching
In our school. The other day a
First Grade child looking at the
Snow exclaimed: “The snow is like
A sheet along the grass,” and the
Teacher said it made the tears come
To her eyes to hear the beautiful
Thought emerging spontaneously
From his poetic consciousness. Children
Love beautiful things instinctively
And give out sincere and beautiful
Thought until the wrong environment
Engulf and stifle them.
Perhaps not all children can frame
Their thought as beautifully as did
Katherine, in a Seventh Grade when
She wrote the following poem, themselves?
One way might be to build
For them, through their seven or
Eight grades in the elementary
School, an anthology, every poem of
Which they would love and some of
Which they might even create themselves.
Katherine wrote:
SUNRISE
“I’ve never seen the great sun rise,
For then I am in bed;
The sands of slumber in my eyes
Hold down my drowsy head.
“I think the sun climbs up the sky.
And throws the clouds away;
Then girds her flaming tunic high
And strides to the meet the day.
“Soft kissed by bird’s wing is her
Head—
Her feet, caressed by trees;
She turns their leaves to gold and
Red
And stoops to the seas.”
A SAVANNAH SUPERINTENDENT’S
MESSAGE
Superintendent C. H. LeVitt, who
Wrote the following articles, received
His master’s Degree from Teacher’s
College, Columbia. He is a contributor
To several magazines and
The writer of a price story in Colliers.
We quote the following from
The National Magazine:
He Sells Education:
“Here is an educator who insists
That education is a business—the
Most exacting in its demands, the
Most far-reaching in its influence,
The biggest job in all the world. He
Believes that the schools have a
Product to sell., and the more people
Who can be made to feel a need for
They will be in spending for it to the
Limit. With him, the teacher is the
Educational salesman de luxe and the
Pupils are the customers who must
Be satisfied. If the customers are
Not satisfied, then there must be
Something wrong either with the
Product or the selling plans of the
Salesman. I f the educational stock
Does not move, either change the
Sales talk or get a fresh stock of
Goods.
A BIG KICK
Jack—” So your father demurred
At first because he didn’t want to
Lose you?”
Peg—” Yes, but I won his accent.
I told him that he would not lose me,
But gain a son-in-law to boot.”
Jack— “H’m! I don’t like that last
Expression.”
— Exchange.
METHOD OF PROMOTING
WORLD FRIENDSHIP
THROUGH EDUCATION
A synopsis of Mr. Batchelor’s
Plan which won third prize in the
World Peace contest:
In brief, the plan for promoting
World peace includes provision for
An international bureau of education
To be composed of educators elected
By the educators of the individual
Countries. Maintenance of this
Bureau would be furnished by each
Country's paying, on an installment
System, one-half of the total amount
Of its war debts for the establishment
Of an endowment fund. Any
Country not carrying war debts
Would contribute to the fund in proportion
To its population.
This bureau should receive the recognition
And cooperation of the
League of Nations to carry out its
Aims extensively. Among its aims
Are these: to revise Text-books from
The kindergarten on through the college
With the purpose of eradicating
All national and race prejudices; in
Other words, international Bureau of Education
Is to extend its influence
Through the supervision of exchange
Scholarships, recreation, play writing,
And contests. Each subject of
The elementary school and secondary
School curricula in each country are
To be carefully investigate and revised
With the thought of worldwide
Unification. For scientific investigation
And research this bureau
Is to act as an international educational
Clearing-house.
The ultimate aims of this bureau
Are to internationally control education,
To work for the preservation of
Natural resources, and to influence
World peace in politics.
The foundation upon which the
Successful operation of this plan is
Built is plain, every-day educational
Growth; and lastly, the election of
People of the enthusiasm to its
Controlling organization.
Captain — “All is lost! We cannot
Save the ship!”
Moses — “Do you hear what he
Says, Ikey? The ship is going to
Sink!”
—Exchange.
