New-York tribune., 1903-03-31
INFLUENCE OF SCHOOL.
DR.. Dutton Defines It's Superiority
to the Home.

4 couupsrisoa, between the home and the school.
which not at all favorable to the former. was
drawn yesterday afternoon by Dr. z P Dutton- OF
the Eorace Mann School. IN an address before the
~omen's conference OF the Society for Ethical
Culture He had recently been visiting the schools
tn two three States, Dr. Dutton said. and he
had been examining the plans for the forty-one
new schools which either in process Of con-
st-uction or about to be built in New-Tork City.
and he wished the attention were given to
space. air and sanitation in cur homes
In TO apartment house in New-York'' said the
speaker, have 7 the slightest suggestion that
pants fresh air. except through the windows. In
the matter OF decoration the standard OF the school
also tends TO be higher than that Of the home. In
the school the best books placed within the
reach Of the child In the homes. even of people
who considered to be cultured find many
rhtrgs that had better not be there. and money Is
expended expensive furniture and rugs before it
IS spent for books The home life is much less
carefully organized than that CT the school, and
children often obliged TO rush late to school
without having time TO their breakfasts prop
erIy- Parents have no time to spend with their
children The mother may belong TO twenty-one
ttGte and know Of woman whose children
were school IN Europe IN three different coun-
tries and who had scarcely them for four or
five years"
This lack Of interest between the parent and the
child was the most serious defect in the home en-
vironZnent- Dr. Dutton concluded The most inn
portant influence in the home. he said was person
ality- and what children needed there was the
guidance and sympathy Of their fathers and
mothers
A similar view OF the matter was taken bv Per
cival Chubb, who followed Dr. Dutton and who
particularly emphasized the duties Of fathers The
home had once been the model for the school Mr.
Chubb said, the aim OF the new education being
70 approximate the methods Of the school to those
Of the home. but the case was reversed and
the home was being called upon harmonize itseI,
with the modern ideal of education
The tendency Of the modern parent" said Mr.
Cnu2o' Is to throw OF onto the school the total
training Of the child The public seems 10 think
that pays the State take its children off its
hands This is great mistake, for the school can
never take the place of the home The province
Of the horne the domain Of education is to send
The child 20 school n proper fighting trim morally.
dren ~ho sent 70 it shall be ht companions FOR
% eSher children No deiesstioa Of this duty is pos
ence and obedience can only be nursed into vtgor-
course of parent and child.
To attain this end" continued the speaker eft
course win the absolute confidence Of their chill
dTen. Fathers are apt TO think that they are ex-
IF business anything else be admitted. A
man should keep out OF thing altogether ether II II ne ne
object more worthy Of absorbing a mans energies
have a snes king feeling Of cuIpability When this
subject is mentioned. and we all know those who
Their own sons are strangers to them"
Mr.. Chubb also alluded IN the course Of his re;
marks TO the vexed question Of home study. and
said that. though it had been much overdone. II
however be allowed 10 interfere with the fam
lily life 49,. -. .,
,c .peslerr oq the ay. ~az prevented from being
present The addresses were followed by numerous
Questions and the meeteing closed with a social
8@I ,c o. Women,s Conference will hold its annual
meeting and celebrate its tenth Anniversary on
April % and the occasion viii Be marked by the
pTesentation Of gift to the new building no"
baEpS ted "