Elementary Education.

Mr. J. M. Rice last night addressed the Educational Conference on "Elementary Education: Its Present Status and its Possibilities." Mr. Rice said in part: Definite goals, determined by practical experience, should be fixed and observed by every school, instead of leaving all to varying traditions and theories. It has been proved by examination of over 40,000 school children that the average pupil can not go beyond a certain degree of proficiency in any study. So much time is wasted under the present system in attempting to exceed this possibility that the elementary schools now accomplish hardly half of what they might under a more practical system.