The state herald., 1899-07-21
EDUCATION AND THE HOME.

Sound and healthy ideas on education
refreshing to hear in these days Of pater.
nalism and ssntimentality, were set forth
In the paper read by Mrs. Helen Gren.
fell, the Colorado superintendent Of pub.
lie instruction, before the American Ed.
ucational Association. The thesis was the
necessity Of cooperation between the
homo and the school. Neither institution
Is In itself a complete organization for the
development Of the child, but when both
work in harmony the highest possible re-
sults can reasonably b expected. Appre-
c,ation by each Of the high utility Of the
other ~ m educational factor has at last
begun, ss the establishment OF parents
meetings indicates among other encour.
aging signs.
Ou common schools, ~ Mrs. Gren-
fell showed, grew out of the home and OF
it's necessities, but the Importance Of the
school has ovsrshsdowed the home and
caused many educators to ignore its infiu-
snce. "Too much should not be relsgatsd
to the work Of the school, since education
is the work OF all the hours of all the day,
and the child's out-of-s school life contains
fully Us formative influences as his school
life." In some respects tho home has OBJ
vious advantages, notably in laying the
foundations Of virtue, integrity and self
control, but the contribution OF the school
in tho building OF character is by no
means to be deprecated.
In another way does the home help and
sustain the school. In the words of Mrs.
Grenfell, "there is nothing more help
full to the child than the realization that.
come wnat may, there are those at home
who are on his side, who are interested in
his work, proud Of his success and sym
pathetic in his failures" This makes it
necessary to invite and increase parental
interest in education. There are, alas |!
tendencies In our public life which seek
to destroy this helpful and inspiring CO.
operation. "If We arc to proceed from
the step Of providing free textbooks to
that OF supplying the INDECENT with all
pscessariss," Mrs. Grsnfsll declared,
"ths nation will awake at some future day
to the knowledge that all responsibility
has been gradually removed from parents
and every encouragement il offered to
continued reproduction Of bene eaciaries Of
government" II should be our aim TO
educate children for responsibility, self
reliance and private snterpr,ss, not fer
dependence and the shifting Of their bur
dens upon "the state"
Such ideas from Colorado state sii.
cisl-and womsn-srs indeed crafty
ing. Not oil advanced women, fertu-
nstsly, drift into pstsrnaiism and sspti.
mental socialism. Chicago Post.
1t will no doubt be quite gratifying TO
the voters Of Colorado who elected Mrs.
Helen Grenisll TO the office OF state
superintendent of public instruction 10
know that, notwithstanding its evident
prejudice against Colorado officials and
woman suffrage, the Chicago Post 10
forced TO recognize the soupduess Of her
views on some Of the most important cd .,
uestionsl questions Of the day. While
heartily endorsing her position on these
questions, the Post however cannot 70.
frain from svslling itself sf the opportu.
nifty to close its comments with 9 snser
ut Colorado officials and women 10 poll
tics. The people OF Colorado have no
cause for any worry over such spesring
fiings when Colorado officials arc com
pared with those OF tho state in which
the Post 10 published,