Central Washington University - Hyakem / Kooltuo Yearbook (Ellensburg, WA)

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Hiiuiiihmmmmmi English This department has now three member who devote their entire time to the work of the department, and occasion ally course are offered in English by mrmbers of other departments. The school is preparing a new catalog which will be issued at once. It will contain a full list and description of the various course offered by the department. This department desires to be as generally helpful to the students and the community as possible, and is now proposing to open an English clinic to which persons may come, freely and often and with¬ out assignment and without credit, for consultation, diagnosis, and suggestion regarding the health conditions of their oral and written language, and also regarding their reading and culture in the field of literature. This department further believes that students and communities of the state should become interested In reading and studylug much more generally than at present the present-day poetry, druma, and fiction and it is ready to assist as much as is practical in the or¬ ganization of such local community projects as will raise the standard of general reading and culture in literature and language. Miss Teisseire, who became a member of the department last Oc¬ tober. speaks French and Spanish very fluently and devotes prac¬ tically all her time to the teaching of these languages. She helps also in the reading of the dally themes of the English composition classes. Miss Davidson devotes her time to the expressional and dramatic technique of the department’s work.

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X ' JL UOlt V ' “,‘f ™ th ' L CUr . riculum - nut t ™use wme one ha 8 reasoned It ahould be there, but because of ita very powerful socilaizing force and the fact that music satisfies a certain demand of the human race that no other factor has been able to meet. Music Coes hand in hand with social activities. It is surprising to character m n deP d nt 0,1 or hnk,!d with »»» °f some Our department offers courses in Applied Piano and Voice, Not , non. History, Appreciation, Chorus Conducting, Chorus, Theorv Music Methods. Physical and the teaching of music In the Training school, leading to u special three year course in music. A Music Major club has been organized, with an aim for reaching i 0t f “ rth r dfv « lo Pn ent. The club promise, serious study and much fun for It member The many phases of music, always popular, are being demanded more and more of the public school student To sing, to play the piano, to play some Instrument in the hand or orchestra, to write simple melodies, to have » speaking vocabulary of things musical is becoming an every day occurrence to many children. The department is making an attempt to prepare those who will be placed in positions where they are asked to further this development.

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•p Education Education is perhaps the most difficult of all the Sciences—for it has to do with the whole of human conduct in motion. It is the science of human experiencing, the guide for the individual in his attack on his environment. The Educationist must make his experiments and draw his conclusions on the run. There is no time when he can say that any behavior or set of behaviors is final. With every bank robbery, every divorce, every labor strike, every war, he must read his professional compass and re-chart his course. The Educationist must consult the Psychologist, the Sociologist the Physical Scientist, the Theologian, the Mer¬ chant, the Industrial worker, and all the rest—but pri¬ marily he must keep his forces focused upon the human element, the creeking of the human machine, in its strug¬ gle toward self realization. Whatever this self realiza¬ tion may be at any particular time, scholarship, the church, the stale, and the whole social order are means to that end—which end constitutes the continuous problem of the Educationist. Every so often one or more of the above institutions come forward with a solution of the human problem. The Educationist has to come to the rescue of the individual and remind these idealists that progress, and not solution is the order of civilization Education is gradual through evolution and not revolution, through personal growth und development, not through external organization. The Science of Education is no longer confined to the principles of procedure in the ordinary school room—but it embodies the best known principles of conduct (that is of doing things) in any walk of possible human experience throughout either the life of the individual or of the race. These principles are not always on “top,” but the extracting of them from the daily blunderings of human experience and the applying of them to the Improvement of the hu man Journey constitutes the work of the Educationist. The pathetic fact about the whole problem is that the lay public is literally several hundred years behind the present well defined body of Educational information. For example, a large per cent of our present Elementary school curriculum is mere rubbish, kept in our schools to the nervous wrecking of many of our children, simply because of the general belief that hard study develops the convolutions of the brain. It seems to me that it is about time for the public to be informed that this is untrue They should also be impressed with the fact that memory, imagination, reason, etc. cannot be trained by the study of certain subjects in school. The next big problem is to sell the theories of modern Education to the public. It is high time for the schools and the people in general to come to a mutual understand¬ ing that Education is concerned primarily with the improvement of behavior in the conduct of daily life, and that Education can take place only through a normal first hand participation in life’s problems as such problems are progressively significant in the affairs of society. It should be known that the experiencing of problems of life should precede the teaching of the principles of living. It should also be known that regardless of the professional fitness of our teachers the status of Education in our schools will be determined largely by the standards of life of the community.