The Daily Plainsman from Huron, South Dakota • Page 20

PAGE TWENTY JULY 8, 196! Educator Urges 'Creative' Work During Idle Months Of Summer (EDITOR'S NOTE: What are our children to do with their va- to it that they go right on learn- ing, says a distinguished edu- cator learning things which might not be possible tc study both the skills and the driving during the stiff environment of urge not only to learn more but cation time? Parents niust school. Seme ideas on vacation to do something with what they activity for youngsters are ex- have learned, amined in the following report Many children and teachers by E. Paul Torrance of the Uni- i laV perhaps for the first time in versity of Minnesota's Bureau of their school careers been caught in the excitement of learning creatively by questioning, in- jquiring, experimenting, exploring, manipulating and testing. Most schools in the Unitedjhave also learned by authority- that is, learned what they were F. Merkel District Agent 1278 S.

E- Huron EL Lutheran Mulual Lift Insurance Co. Home Office Waveriy. Iowa Educational Research.) By E. PAUL TORRANCE Written for United Press International PAUL IMKER Painting Decorating Contractor 853 12th Si. S.W.

EL 2-3820 States wiii soon close their doors for the summer, but this does not mean that either teacher or pu-j pils will stop a i and) thinking. The 1961-62 school told in the way they were in- But the teachers gained a new recognition that many things can year has be learned creatively Many teachers will spend a part of their summer vacations in creating new materials or in trying to' increase their skills in identifying a in developing creative talent. Some of them will do this learning on their own. will attend institutes and summer courses learning how to do a better job of developing their pupils' crea- tive thinking abilities. They will go to such places as Teachers College of Columbia University, Northwestern University, Univer- sity of Buffalo, University of Kentucky, San Jose State Col- lege, Colorado State College, Uni- versity of Wisconsin at Milwau- kee, University of Oregon and the University of Utah, just to men- tion a few such special programs.

Not all i have had teachers-who find learning an ex- iperhaps seen the testing cf morejfectively than they can by au- iting and important matter and notir in 'arliinaf mn hnrt Imrifv 'ThfiV llM Vf i AI jnew ideas in'education than anyjthority. They have I other period in history. Many offnized that many children learn it that for their pupils. I the ideas which have been tested creatively who seem not to ihave given teachers and pupils able to learn by authority. be Some have given up and have been counting the days il summer vacation.

Some have at- tended schools where learning is i grim matter. Some have felt that they were in "steel boxes." One mother of a very creative boy writes: jj "So many doors closed! Where I is the spirit of educating a cultivating the child's natural de- sire to learn some seed of it is always there, to one extent or another! "I feel he is in a steel box I think he feels he is, too, and thinks the only way to be free is by qutting school. "How can doors be opened, can you tell me? Can you advise or suggest anything that could help? "Please, don't be too busy to care or answer me. I just don't know where else to turn!" What happens when children feel that they are in steel boxes and that all doors to the expres- sion of their creative needs and abilities are closed? The answer is a tragic one. Of course, such children, may sacrifice their crea- tivity, become conforming overwhelmed and break down.

A more tragic picture, however, is presented by the child who re- fuses to learn, de- linquent, feels lost and out of touch with his environment, or ex- periences a mental breakdown. This summer, many creative youngsters will find at least tem- porary release from their "steel through arts and science camps. Such camps have gotten a start during the past two or three years. Science and Arts Camps, Inc. will sponsor- several such camps this summer.

The Minneapolis School of Art will again conduct its science and arts camp on Lake Minnetonka. Here both boys and girls will work with outstanding young scientists and artists in a variety of fields. They will learn both creatively and by authority. They will think and an enthusiasm which will be" new to many of them. Many summer a estab- lished along other lines are be- ginning to adopt some of the ideas of the science and a camps.

It is such a "natural" for helping some creative children find their way out of their "steel i One mother wrote me as fol- lows about her son's experience last summer: "He is exuberant, bright, lov- ing, and so deep in his thoughts, yet he-failed last year. He had here are some of the reasons why. In the school on the play ground and frequently in the home and the church, chil- dren are almost forced by social pressures to blot out entire areas of awareness. Certain areas of life are off limits for thinking. Creativity, however, requires an openness or intensified aware- ness to one's environment.

Thus, these tabooed' areas of experi' encing take a heavy toll on crea- tive development. Many create these tabooed areas but stem fronj the great emphasis Which we place at a very early age upon different expectations for boys and girls. In our culture, sensitivity or openness to the environment rep- resents a feminine value. Inde- pendence represents a masculine value. Since creativity requires sensitivity and independ- ence in thinking, highly creative boys are apt to appear more ef- feminate than their peers and highly creative girls are apt to appear more masculine a theirs.

Even when parents are aware of these facts, they feel uncom- fects of imediate a of evaluation. This, helps them to dare get off the beaten track and break through the obvious and the commonplace to produce and test new ideas. Camp living itself frequently makes creative think- ing necessary. Such situations are especially favorable to the estab- lishment of a creative relationship the child. Many forces of nature work in favor of the science and arts camp in bringing about crea- tive growth and in helping crea- tive youngsters' find i way Efforts Increased To Solve Sieries Of Strangling (UPI)-Mrs.

El- eanor Young, 49, picked up her telephone and a voice said: "This is the strangler. You're next." It was a mgment of fear for Mrs. Young. Three a women who lived within 10 miles of her had been strangled in the past three weeks. Mrs.

Young said the man who out of the "steel boxes" whichj telephoned her Friday said some- they feel confine them. Mitchell Fugitive Captured In Iowa SIOUX CITYXUPD--A fugitive from a South Dakota county jai was captured by police here Fri- day while riding in a stolen car in a residential area of the city Floyd C. Laber, 24, Parkston S. may have to answer to four separate charges to South Dakota Iowa and the federal government Sioux City police said he cashec fortable when their own boys are open- and responsive to the en- vironment or when their i show independence in thinking or interest in science. A camp makes a natural set- a bad check at a service station May 24, then went to Mitch- an extremely rigid, teacher who ting in which boys can indulge tried to bend Tom to his will and Tom would not comply.

Needless to say, 'the war was After his sad experience last year, we sent him to a creative camp dur- ing the summer where he bloom- ed like a filly kicking up its heels at being free: He did a chalk (painting) and when I first, saw it on exhibit at the camp (I didn't know at the time that it was his), I loved it the colors are ex- quisite. Imagine how I felt when I found out it was Tom's! I fram- ed it and have it in our living room." The science and arts camp has and outwardly become models of many "built-in" features which the well-adjusted child only later to have ulcers or become make it almost ideal for stimu- lating creative growth. Briefly; their appreciation of beauty full responsiveness to and aware- ness of their environment. girl -can also be free to indulge her curiosity about the scientific wonders of the 1 environment. In this setting, nothing thought to be wrong with the boy who shows responsiveness -to beauty r.or the girl who inquires a science.

Science and arts camps provide many a a 1 situations for by authority. The motivation I is created by the situation; teacher does not have to manu- facture it. It is easier in such, a setting than in schools to free children from the "inhibiting ef- charge of forging another check. He broke out of the county jail at Mitchell June 21 while awaiting arraignment. Authorities there siad he cut through the window cell bars with a hacksaw blade he had hidden on his person.

Laber then back to Sioux City and stole a car here July 3, police said. At a Laber's bond was set at on the local check a but was not fur- a 1 authorities have not indicated whether or not they will learning creatively rather than prosecute a for interstate flight to avoid prosecution. But South Dakota wants him back on the forgery charge, and he will be tried Jn Iowa for the May 24 forgery and for the car theft thing else but that she was unable to understand the words. Authorities believed the call was a hoax, but fliey stepped up ef- forts to solve the brutal murders. Killed in their apartments were Mrs.

Anna E. Slesers, 55, of Bos- ton, Mrs. Helen E. Blake, 65, of Lynn, and Mrs. Nina Nichols of Boston.

All three women lived alone. Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Nichols were strangled with stockings. Mrs.

Slesers was strangled with a housecoat cord. Mrs. Nichols had been raped. Police said Friday night they were convinced that the threes, women knew their assailant anil continued working on a theory that one person had committed all three murders. Boston police commissioner Ed- mund McNamara, issued a second warning for all women who lived alone to keep their doors locked and be careful of whom they mitted to their homes.

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