Psychology Vs. The Birch

Prof. John Dewey, recently of the Michigan University, addressed, last week, the kindergarten convention, in Chicago, on " Psychology as a substitute for the rod." The many friends of the professor in Ann Arbor will appreciate the following, taken f rom the Chicago Herald: " He claimed that science of mind was the best implement parents had with which to keep their children in the right path. The only way to get along with a child was to convert all lts bad influences into good ones, but the professor had no easy and every-day method of doing it, and the audience moved out in large sections, especially the men. "The professor advised the sparing of the rod - this moved out other fathers - and thought a mother to be a successful mother ought als? be a skilied psychologist. Were all women such they would know how to convert the spasmodic energy which vents itself into nocturnal disturbances into psalms of gladness and to turn such wastefulness of strength into channels whith would be beneficial. "A man near the window said he was going to find out whether Professor Dewey had any small boys, and if so he would make a personal examination into the results of the psychological tools as against the benefits derived by a free use of the birch."