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TEXAS STANDARD
EDUCATION
As I See It
By W. L. MANNING,
Principal Lincoln High School
The problem of education in the
post-war world has brought many
problems to the school, home, com-
munity, and the nation as a whole.
The schools are forced to adjust
their modes of living to a most
startling social transition, if they are
to fit youth, and in some cases
adults, to live happy, useful, and
normal lives.
The American public schools con-
front curriculum problems that are
little short of overwhelming in dif-
ficulty. The schools must teach the
youth to understand the American
way of life.
An educational system is success-
ful only when in all aspects it con-
tributes to the ends of society in
which it lives and has its being. The
process of relating an educational
program to a national end is neither
simple to comprehend, nor easy to
practice. Most teachers are of the
traditional school, and before any
change or modification in the school
system can be made, the change
must first be made in individuals.
So our school problem is both psy-
chological and educational.
We believe education, not only
preparation for living successfully in
the future, but education should en-
able youth to live successful lives
daily.
Education should aid youth in re-
flective thinking and by so doing he
is able to solve his own problems.
Finally, I believe education and the
teacher are concerned with the total
growth of the learner. This means
that the school and teacher must
provide experiences that will devel-
By W. L. MANNING.
op the child mentally, physically,
emotionally and socially.
Teaching, whatever else it may be
—is a cooperative enterprise where-
in the values of both student and
teacher are challenged. Further-
more, it provides theoretical support
for the notion that learning is en-
hanced when the teaching-learning
situation is such as to permit prob-
lem solving on the part of students.
This is the philosophy that we try
to endow in the Palestine public
schools.
A September enrollment of 300 students
in technical nursing courses is forecast for
junior colleges in Texas cooperating in
the Texas State Hospital system's training
program.
STETHOSCOPE DISCOVERED
BY ACCIDENT
In 1819 a young girl lay in Necker
hospital in Paris, stricken by some
heart disorder. As a 38-year-old doc-
tor, Rene Theophile Laennec, lean -
ed close trying to listen to the sounds
of her heart blanketed under corpu-
lent flesh, she shrank from him in
confused modesty. Baffled, he turn-
ed from the patient to walk in the
hospital grounds while he pondered
the case.
His attention was drawn to a group
of children at play. Some were tap-
ping at one end of a hollow log
while others at the opposite end
listened in delight. Dr. Laennec
sped back to his patient, rolled a
piece of paper into a tight cylinder
and putting one end of the tube
against her chest heard clear and
distinct the telling heartbeats and
respiratory sounds of the chest. Thus
was the modern stethoscope born.
Later that year he published one
of the classics of medical literature
on diagnosis of chest diseases. Yet,
seven years later this scientist who
had forged so powerful a weapon
against the greatest killer of his
time, tuberculosis, died at 45 of the
disease.
PLEASE SEND ME BACK
1. Twelve (12) Flash Cards to
"Dick and James"—pre-primer.
2. "Learning Aid" for the days of
the week.
3. White Plastic Coca-Cola Case
and twelve tiny bottles used for
counting in the first grade.
These articles were removed
from exhibits displayed in the Gay
Street School, Fort Worth, during
the meeting in November, 1952.
Anyone having any information
about any of these items, please
write:
MRS. L. M. HAMILTON
Gay Street School
Fort Worth, Texas
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White, Leslie J. The Texas Standard, Volume 27, Number 1, January-February 1953, periodical, January 1953; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193771/m1/11/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Prairie View A&M University.