The Chippeway Herald

What Teachers Should See at St. Louis.

In connection with the coming meeting of the Congress of Indian Educators at St. Louis, which will be held June 25 to July 1, the teachers who attend will be able to take advantage of the rare and invaluable educational opportunities afforded by the various departments of the Exposition. As it is possible to see everything at a World's Fair we give a few hints as to the special exhibits which will be likely to possess the most interest and yield best results to careful study. Naturally, first come the exhibits in the Educational Department. The great value of an educational exhibit lies in the opportunity for comparison. The best system of education and the most successful methods of the great educators of the world can here be studied and valuable lessons learned. One of the features of the exhibit is a series of instantaneously taken pictures of actual school life and methods. Manual training schools in operation, with pupils at work, and the actual instruction of the deaf, dumb and blind will be especially interesting to Indian teachers. No teacher can visit and study these exhibits without being interested and benefitted beyond possible previous anticipation.

All the teachers will of course feel a special interest in the palaces of Agriculture and Horticulture. The exhibit of hardware, heating, lighting and ventilating apparatus, etc. will be valuable to superintendents.

The Department of Anthropology will be particularly instructive to Indian teachers. Man's achievements as set forth here from the standpoint of race, will assist the teachers in the work of training the Indian child to develop his own possibilities, that the transition from his former ways of living and looking at life may be gradual. The section of ethnology, illustrating racial development, is full of suggestions for conducting the education of the Indian logically, step by step, adopting the best in the tribal life to the needs of modern conditions.