The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-13
HOW We EDUCATE OURSELVES
EXPERTS TRY TO TELL MOSELEY'S
VISITING ENGLISHMEN.
The Education the British Give to tn
Elect We Give 10 Eycryb0dy-ThGt's
the Secret OF Our success. 50 Felix
Adler SayS-Dlnner Talk at Sherry's.


the Secret OF Our success, SO Felix
Adler Says-Dlnner Talk at Sherry's.
Educators from England ard Amer
lea met under the genial influence of a din
ner which President Butler Of Columbia
gave at Sherry's last night to Mr.. Moseley's
British educational commission. The COM
mission has come here, as William Jon es,
M. p, said last night, ITO see how you train
teachers, to see the attitude Of your cap
tains OF industry toward education, to see
how you make citizens-how ii is that you
as nation get along 30 we'll
The other English speakers agreed with
Mr.. Jones's stat ement that the English
mems old time condescension toward Amer
leans has changed to respect, and from
Hadley Of Yale and Felix Adler tried to tell
ENGLAND how We do 1t. MIR. Held said:
THE commission will now find a wiser
ruler over Columbia University than was
King George who ruled over Kings Col
lege. 1t will also find that the chief quality
Of our education Ia that it is universally
diffused. That Is the elan which carries
the nation forward. From any social
condition a man with us can rise to the
highest place"
President Hadley let the Englishmen
into the secret that at the bottom our
system is not so much different from
theirs.
There is much to criticise about the
| system. but there are the products OF it
sitting all about the ROOM he said, @and
how in Heavens name such a system pro-
duces such products is a mystery to me-
The fact is, DR.. w. T. Harris alone has
solved the problem OF education. but he
Prof. Felix Adler said he believed that
| our advance is all due to our public school
, system.
THE education that the English give
, to the elect he said, we give to every
body and therein is our stronghold
Dear me, you don't rearly call this rain.
Why this Is charming weather" SO said
Mr.. Hamilton, secretary of the Mcseley
commission, voicing the sentiment of the
other members as they started out on q
tour of sightseeing yesterday morning
With trousers rolled up at the hem. rain
coats unfastened and umbrellas covered +,
they turned their faces to the drizzle,
almost imagining they were in London.
Some of the members took a tally-ho
ride through the city. all OF them visited
the Museum Of Natural History and other
museums. No practical work of educational
investigation was done. That will begin
to-day. this programme having been mapped
out:
A number Of the elementary schools will
be visited this afternoon. Tomorrow and
Thursday will be devoted to the public high
schools. including the Wadei Ugh High School
for Girls. the School Of Commerce and the
New York Training School for Teachers.
Father Thomas Thornton, inspector Of
Catholic schools, will escort the members
to several Catholic schools on Friday st.
Francis Xavier's and the Pratt Institute
will also be IL snected.
X. Fulton Cutting will take Mr.. Moseley
and his fellow students to the New York
Trade School tomorrow evening. On Sat-
urday the commissioners will go to Pough-
keepsie to visit Vassar. On Tuesday they
will go to WASHINGTON.