The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-12
PRAISE From ENGLAND.


British Educators and Editors Prefer Our
School System to Their Own.
Chicago luter Ocean.
This Is the time Of the year when the
American small boy is Just fairly settling
down to his work "a the public school 1t
Is also one Of the semiaunual periods when
parents eyince an active interest IN school
matters. The mother presumably went
With her boy on the opening day of school,
and the father has had TO pay for new
school books. So, II parents have com.
plants to make, they voice them now.
or rourSe there are complaints, some
founded on actual faults In the schools and
IN the teachers, and some arising from tle
pecullaritics ut the pupil or Els parents, or
poth. But with AL its faults, buth or
theory aud practice, Our public school sys-
TEN is the best TN the world.
Just now England is pralsng and envy.
ing this public school system Of ours. Sir
Joshua ritch and NJ +. Sader, leaders IN
tine English educational world. have been
making investigations for the London board
OF education The moral AMI educational
value of the American public schools Is
pronounced mcnlculahle 10y them.
The English press is preaching sermons
on the text furnished by Sir Jushua Fitch
and MIR. Sadlcr. The London Daily News
Tor Instance, says:
"Ilow frequently we hear the phrase that
So'aud So has had the advantage OF a pub
lie school education. This means thar a
hundred other children have been placed by
the community az a disadvantage. In the
United states II is impossible to secure any
| such Unfair start in life The fashionable
private schools are II ANYTHING rather loss
efficient than the public schools; aud for n
rich man Ia withdraw his child from the
general race Tor knowledge is regarded as
confession that the child is deficient IN
mental attachments. Americas discourtosv
20 people who fail Is 10 some extent iust.
lied because she Is able 10 boast that
everybody has had chance The rate.
payer, So far from stiutiug expenditure mn.
ON schools, regards the levy as an indls
pensable insurance against plutocratic dom
nation"
The London Times. commenting on the
situation, says:
There is an essential unity OF belief I'm
democratic Cducattcu. ~ desire TO mako a
generally accessible. and Of determination
20 Keep up It's quality Hence. SAYS Sir
Joshua Fitch, America may be regarded
as laboratory IN which educational exneri
meuis are being tried on great scale nm.
der conditions exceptionally favorable to
nv ehooptaSement 81 inventiveness aud
new methods aud new truths Tho 6rSt
glShu condition which makes all this life
a Inc oNemSnt possible Is popular enthu.
slaspl the belicr OF the democracy In ia
schools ana OF the schools IN the deDloc-
sal AZ that heS driving power which is
as vet wanting IN England
botn the News and tho Times maintain
that Il would he ana Immense gain to IN,
gland 4 the American public school system
unull ne transplanted 20 Great Britain
Ahvn argument against their own schools
y ihet hton and Harrow and Upplngham
hisve deHberately eliminated the plebeian
eiement with the result that the governing
classes are drawn from too limited n ALL
Neither ~ the schools for the rich nor IN
We schools Tor the poor can there be nny
ssiinleers instruction IN the duties Of citizen
sup, ior while these schools formally nd-
/ my the fEnts 81 man, practically they pre-
S s,,, N their midst the fabric Of medieval
~, though the small hoy may get qpeer
, nr NAV IRON Sa Fantastic methods Of spelling
Seon n,'A neNe % stay az home half the day
y. shpU'H rememher thar after iii the
a.. public school IS one Of the great
buttons Faults there are Int tber ius,l,
ssii1.sNiig local and temporary. and often
,s net ~ INC result OF the parents avn
agemcut. ' sNn'Vi han-