CHAPTER XIX
JIM’S WORLD WIDENS
Mr. Hofmyer was waiting to give Jim the final convincing proof that he had produced an effect with his speech.
“Do you teach the kind of school you lay out in your talk?” he asked.
“I try to,” said Jim, “and I believe I do.”
“Well,” said Mr. Hofmyer, “that’s the kind of education I b’lieve in. I kep’ school back in Pennsylvany fifty years ago, and I made the scholars measure things, and weigh things, and apply their studies as fur as I could.”
“All good teachers have always done that,” said Jim. “Froebel, Pestalozzi, Colonel Parker—they all had the idea which is at the bottom of my work; ‘learn to do by doing,’ and connecting up the school with life.”
“M’h’m,” grunted Mr. Hofmyer, “I hain’t been able to see how Latin connects up with a high-school kid’s life—unless he can find a Latin settlement som’eres and git a job clerkin’ in a store.”