The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-02
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tional Educational Association the
question Of how to educate children
up to the modern standard without
pauperizing the parents was SER
iously discussed. Professor Frank
lin Giddings of Columbia Univer-
sity advanced the idea that the
state ought to provide for DEEPEN
dent parents until the children were
fourteen years of age; that is, the
state ought to compensate parents
for the loss of the help they need
from their children and which the
children would be able to give if
the State did not compel them to go
TO school. The idea has been that
the state ought to take care of the
children, but Professor Gliding
has delved deeper and found that in
vast numbers OF cases parents are
dependent on children and when
they are robbed of their children's
support they suffer. The thought
that first hobs up in ones mind is
that such parents ought not to have
children, but they do have them
and most of them, and, if the ma
ton is to continue in husin ess, they
must have them. Those parents
who are thoroughly able to educate
their offspring don't seem to be very
fertile. They barely yield enough
offspring to boss the job, let alone
do the work. ''@@
1t Professor Gidding's doctrine
should be established in practice,
and that seems to be the tendency,
it will be another long stride in the
direction of pure Socialism. Fun
damentally, the entire system of
state supported educational institu-
tons is Socialistic. The Socialism
of the public schools has been OBJ
secured by justification. But when
the point is reached that all the
children of all the people shall en-
joy equal educational training, and
those parents who are able must
pay the cost eff educating the child
rem of parents not able and mean
while maintain the parents them
selves. it will be pretty hard to
make anybody believe that the
nation is not being Systematically
prepared for the pure Socialistic
state in the fulness thereof.
At present, expansion of the
Socialistic idea in the public schools
is confined to charging and exalt-
ing popular educational require.
ments. This has now progressed to
stage that parents must be consid-
cred. Prof. Giddings makes an
appeal on behalf of parents who, by
the progress of education, are
denied the help they need from
their children before the children
have passed the age of fourteen.
But the requirements are multiply
ing, The length of the schooling
period is increasing. The number
of parents who need the help OF
their children increases with the
general age of the children. That
is to say, parents are more liable to
need the support of their children
when the children have reached
eighteen than when they were four
teen and when they are twenty,
more than when they were eigh.
teen. So, as the educational re-
quirements multiply, the scho bling
period will lengthen and the num-
Der of parents to be taken care of
by the state will increase. and at
the present rate of advancement, in
fifty years hence, the state will be
educating all the children of the
nation to the highest possible de-
gree, while, at the same time, m aim
tanning all the parents in elegance.
That looks good, but who in
thunder is going to support the
state5