Title:
The Flaming Sword
Accession#:
2006.08.29
Pubication Date:
1922/09
Object ID:
PA—0251
Collection:
Flaming Sword
Additional Notes & Full Text:
Current Events in Our Community Life
September 1922
BY D. J. RICHARDS
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IT GIVES US great pleasure to announce in this issue that we now have cloth bound copies of the "Cellular Cosmogony "Immortal Manhood" and "The Great Red Dragon" ready for sale. It was our good fortune to find a bookbinder, Mr. W. E. Browning, of Fort Myers, who had followed that business for 15 years. Although not presently engaged in it, he came to the Unity for several days and gave us an excellent boost toward getting out this work. We hope from now on to be able to supply the demand for these books, and wish to thank those who'have patiently borne with us, waiting to have their orders filled for cloth bound books.
Miss La Reina Bubbett, who for the past few months has been in Estero visiting her parents, left on the second of September for Winnetka, 111., to re&ume her duties as. teacher in one of the public schools there. Miss Bubbett is a pioneer in a new system of education, called the "Individual System," and before her departure gave our people a most interesting talk on this new method of teaching".
The originator of the individual system is a Californian whose name we failed to learn, but the principal of the Winnetka schools is Mr. Carleton Washburn, and so great was the enthusiasm over his work that about 16,000 people visited the school last year, among them were educators from all parts of this country, as well as Europe and India.
The one great complaint of our public school system, heretofore, has been that of cramming the mentalities of pupils, oftentimes with studies of not much value to the students when their school careers were over. The individual system allows the pupils to progress, at their own rate of speed; we mean by this that they are not forced to learn faster than they have capacity for. Miss Bubbett, however, emphasized that there is an insistance on every pupil knowing the minimum essentials so thoroughly that the student will pass 100%.
An excellent feature of this new system is that no pupil can hold another back in time spent on studies. Those slow of comprehension may take a year to master certain studies, while another may get through them in three months. All the grades, from one to eight, are taught, but some of the pupils master their studies in two years less time than they would under normal circumstances in a school of the old regime.
From a third to a half of a day is devoted to social work; nothing is omitted, apparently, pertaining to the child's welfare. Music, art, science, and dramatic work are important features. In music, for instance, the pupils are taught under a most competent teacher, rhythm and how to build scales, and classical and folk songs, thereby cultivating a desire only for the best; anything bordering on the jazz is strictly tabooed.
Another illuminating feature was her description of how the love for birds and animals had been substituted in the boy's mind for that of the sling shot; such devices are no longer to be found in Winnetka. Also the instances of the pupils for things sanitary ; their campaign became so intense that merchants were obliged to screen every article of food for human consumption. When birds, animals, or flies are topics for study, the subject' is delved into so thoroughly that all the redeeming features, or otherwise, react subconsciously, as it were, and reform or protection is brought about as a natural consequence. Miss Bubbett is so en rapport with her work that we can't help but think of it in the words of Alexander Pope:
" 'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined,"
We are glad to have with us at present Miss Mildred Fischer, who for the past two years has been living in Madison, Wis., and engaged in the printing business as a linotype operator, a profession she learned at the Unity. She left Madison in the early part of the summer to take a short course at Bryn Mawr College. This college is making a special effort to give working girls' who have not had the advantage of a higher education an opportunity to get one, and it speaks volumes for the girls who seize it. The Dearborn Independent, in its issue of August 19, had a most interesting article on the "Highbrows of Our Mills and Factories," from which we quote a few paragraphs:
"Nowhere else is there a school where the students are more eager to learn than at Bryn Mawr, the summer school for women workers in industry. The teachers, most of whom have had classes in other great American colleges, are the authority for that statement. It is a thirst for knowledge, too, that works both ways, for the women know from personal and intimate experience conditions in a dozen industries that teachers know only from books and surveys. The result is that nowhere else can a teacher get1 so much firsthand, practical information from his pupils.
"If Bryn Mawr graduates and teachers who organized the .school believed that they were doing a favor for working women and getting nothing in return but the warm glow of philanthropy, experience has changed it. Bryn Mawr has learned as much as the workers. Women of the shops and factories are showing that they can think, and that even those who have been deprived of the advantage of early education are doing things to solve industrial and social problems that are well worth the study of the educators."
The faculty summarizes their experience as follows: "Viewed from every angle, it is agreed by all who participated in it that the first summer of the school was a success. The undoubted intellectual development of the students during the two months in itself would have made the experiment worth while. Added to this, an asiset almost equal in importance from the students' point of view, was the contact between different groups and the broadening of mental horizons."
Koreshan friends called on Mildred while she was at Bryn Mawr, and before coming South she visited Koreshan friends in New York and Washington, and says that her summer has been one round of pleasure, having been made most welcome everywhere, and now she is very happy to be in Estero for a visit with her mother, Sister Ida Fischer, and the members of the Unity.
Miss Hamilton, a niece of Brother Lou Staton, was a guest of the Unity, having just returned from Gainesville (Fla.,) University, where she had been for several months taking post graduate work. Miss Hamilton taught last year in the Fort Myers public schools and will resume her work there when school opens in September.
The Unity Orchestra at a recent concert had the assistance of Prof. Mazzeri and Conrad Campanucci of Fort Myers. The latter favored us with two clarinet solos, compositions of Prof Mazzeri, the Prof. playing the accompaniments. Brother Floyd Moreland also favored us with two flute solos, which were very much appreciated.
A number of brothers from the Unity have been busy for a week or more erecting a water tower on Brother Peter Campbell's place.
The American Eagle of August 24 contained the following: "The new electric power house for the Koreshan Unity is now well toward completion, the frame being up, the sheet iron on roof and sides, and doors and windows in place. The large 50 k. w. generator was moved in Friday and installed on its concrete base. Work on the concrete floor is being held up awaiting the arrival of two exhaust pipe connections for the big crude oil engines that failed to arrive and have been ordered from New York. The plant, when completed, and run at full capacity, should be capable of generating 1000 fifty watt lights, more than enough required for the buildings and grounds for some time to come. It is expected to have it in operation by this coming winter."
September 1922
BY D. J. RICHARDS
-------------------------------------
IT GIVES US great pleasure to announce in this issue that we now have cloth bound copies of the "Cellular Cosmogony "Immortal Manhood" and "The Great Red Dragon" ready for sale. It was our good fortune to find a bookbinder, Mr. W. E. Browning, of Fort Myers, who had followed that business for 15 years. Although not presently engaged in it, he came to the Unity for several days and gave us an excellent boost toward getting out this work. We hope from now on to be able to supply the demand for these books, and wish to thank those who'have patiently borne with us, waiting to have their orders filled for cloth bound books.
Miss La Reina Bubbett, who for the past few months has been in Estero visiting her parents, left on the second of September for Winnetka, 111., to re&ume her duties as. teacher in one of the public schools there. Miss Bubbett is a pioneer in a new system of education, called the "Individual System," and before her departure gave our people a most interesting talk on this new method of teaching".
The originator of the individual system is a Californian whose name we failed to learn, but the principal of the Winnetka schools is Mr. Carleton Washburn, and so great was the enthusiasm over his work that about 16,000 people visited the school last year, among them were educators from all parts of this country, as well as Europe and India.
The one great complaint of our public school system, heretofore, has been that of cramming the mentalities of pupils, oftentimes with studies of not much value to the students when their school careers were over. The individual system allows the pupils to progress, at their own rate of speed; we mean by this that they are not forced to learn faster than they have capacity for. Miss Bubbett, however, emphasized that there is an insistance on every pupil knowing the minimum essentials so thoroughly that the student will pass 100%.
An excellent feature of this new system is that no pupil can hold another back in time spent on studies. Those slow of comprehension may take a year to master certain studies, while another may get through them in three months. All the grades, from one to eight, are taught, but some of the pupils master their studies in two years less time than they would under normal circumstances in a school of the old regime.
From a third to a half of a day is devoted to social work; nothing is omitted, apparently, pertaining to the child's welfare. Music, art, science, and dramatic work are important features. In music, for instance, the pupils are taught under a most competent teacher, rhythm and how to build scales, and classical and folk songs, thereby cultivating a desire only for the best; anything bordering on the jazz is strictly tabooed.
Another illuminating feature was her description of how the love for birds and animals had been substituted in the boy's mind for that of the sling shot; such devices are no longer to be found in Winnetka. Also the instances of the pupils for things sanitary ; their campaign became so intense that merchants were obliged to screen every article of food for human consumption. When birds, animals, or flies are topics for study, the subject' is delved into so thoroughly that all the redeeming features, or otherwise, react subconsciously, as it were, and reform or protection is brought about as a natural consequence. Miss Bubbett is so en rapport with her work that we can't help but think of it in the words of Alexander Pope:
" 'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined,"
We are glad to have with us at present Miss Mildred Fischer, who for the past two years has been living in Madison, Wis., and engaged in the printing business as a linotype operator, a profession she learned at the Unity. She left Madison in the early part of the summer to take a short course at Bryn Mawr College. This college is making a special effort to give working girls' who have not had the advantage of a higher education an opportunity to get one, and it speaks volumes for the girls who seize it. The Dearborn Independent, in its issue of August 19, had a most interesting article on the "Highbrows of Our Mills and Factories," from which we quote a few paragraphs:
"Nowhere else is there a school where the students are more eager to learn than at Bryn Mawr, the summer school for women workers in industry. The teachers, most of whom have had classes in other great American colleges, are the authority for that statement. It is a thirst for knowledge, too, that works both ways, for the women know from personal and intimate experience conditions in a dozen industries that teachers know only from books and surveys. The result is that nowhere else can a teacher get1 so much firsthand, practical information from his pupils.
"If Bryn Mawr graduates and teachers who organized the .school believed that they were doing a favor for working women and getting nothing in return but the warm glow of philanthropy, experience has changed it. Bryn Mawr has learned as much as the workers. Women of the shops and factories are showing that they can think, and that even those who have been deprived of the advantage of early education are doing things to solve industrial and social problems that are well worth the study of the educators."
The faculty summarizes their experience as follows: "Viewed from every angle, it is agreed by all who participated in it that the first summer of the school was a success. The undoubted intellectual development of the students during the two months in itself would have made the experiment worth while. Added to this, an asiset almost equal in importance from the students' point of view, was the contact between different groups and the broadening of mental horizons."
Koreshan friends called on Mildred while she was at Bryn Mawr, and before coming South she visited Koreshan friends in New York and Washington, and says that her summer has been one round of pleasure, having been made most welcome everywhere, and now she is very happy to be in Estero for a visit with her mother, Sister Ida Fischer, and the members of the Unity.
Miss Hamilton, a niece of Brother Lou Staton, was a guest of the Unity, having just returned from Gainesville (Fla.,) University, where she had been for several months taking post graduate work. Miss Hamilton taught last year in the Fort Myers public schools and will resume her work there when school opens in September.
The Unity Orchestra at a recent concert had the assistance of Prof. Mazzeri and Conrad Campanucci of Fort Myers. The latter favored us with two clarinet solos, compositions of Prof Mazzeri, the Prof. playing the accompaniments. Brother Floyd Moreland also favored us with two flute solos, which were very much appreciated.
A number of brothers from the Unity have been busy for a week or more erecting a water tower on Brother Peter Campbell's place.
The American Eagle of August 24 contained the following: "The new electric power house for the Koreshan Unity is now well toward completion, the frame being up, the sheet iron on roof and sides, and doors and windows in place. The large 50 k. w. generator was moved in Friday and installed on its concrete base. Work on the concrete floor is being held up awaiting the arrival of two exhaust pipe connections for the big crude oil engines that failed to arrive and have been ordered from New York. The plant, when completed, and run at full capacity, should be capable of generating 1000 fifty watt lights, more than enough required for the buildings and grounds for some time to come. It is expected to have it in operation by this coming winter."
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Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Object Name:
Periodical
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Phys Desc:
24 p.
Publisher:
Guiding Star Publishing House
Publication Place:
Estero, Fl.
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