Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-13
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harmonic with the occupations of the
community. These courses, when in
troduced should include instruction
in agricultural as well as manual
branches. We believe that it is the
duty of the state not only to qualify
it's children to be good citizens but
also as far as possible to be useful
members of their community. Hence,
wherever conditions justify their es-
tablishment, trade schools should be
maintained at public expense to fit
children as far as possible for a chos-
en- career.
Free Vacation Schools
5. The National Educational associ-
alton indorses the increasing use of
urban school buildings for free vaca-
ton schools and for free evening
schools and lecture courses for adults
and for children who have been
obliged to leave the day school pre-
maturely. We also approve of the use
of school grounds for play grounds
and even of the buildings for the re-
lief of the poor in the crowded dis
tricts during summer.
6. It is the duty of the state to
provide for the education of every
child within its borders, and to see
that all children obtain the rudiments
of an education. The constitutional
provision that all taxpayers must con-
tribute to the support of the public
schools legally carries with ii the i'm
piled provision that no persons should
be permitted to defeat the purposes of
the school law by forcing their chill
dren at an early age to become bread
winners. To this end the child labor
and truancy laws should be so har-
hot IA nd1
child, not it's labor, be made the de-
sderatum.
Z. The national government should
provide schools for the children of all
persons living in territory under the
immediate control of the government.
The attention of congress is especially
directed to the need of adequate legis-
lation to provide schools for the chill
dren of citizens of the United States
living on naval reservations.
Schools IncuIcate Patriotism
8. The association regrets the re-
vival in some quarters of the idea that
the common school is place for
teaching nothing but reading, spelling,
writing and ciphering, and takes this
occasion to declare that the ultimate
object of popular education is to teach
children how to live righteously,
BEAUTIFULLY and happily, and that to
accomplish this object it is essential
that every school inculcate the love of
truth, justice, purity and beauty
through the study also of biology, his
tory, ethics, natural history, music,
drawing and the manual arts.
O. The National Educational associa-
ton wishes to record its approval of
the increasing appreciation among ed
ucators of the fact that the building
of character is the real aim of the
schools and the ultimate reason for
the expenditure of millions for their
maintenance. There are in the minds
of the children and youth of today a
tendency toward a disregard for con-
stituted authority, lack of respect for
age and superior wisdom, weak APP
probation of the demands of duty, a
disposition to follow pleasure and in
terest rather than obligation and or
der. This condition demands the earli-
est thought and action of our leaders
of opinion. and places important obli-
cations upon school authorities.
10. The National Educational asso-
citation wishes to congratulate the Sec
ondary schools and ccteges of the
country that are making an effort to
remove the faint of professionalism
that has crept into students sports.
This faint can be removed only by
leading students alumni and school
faculties to recognize that inter-
school games should be played for
craftsmanship and not merely for vic
tory.
II. The national Educational assoc
citation observes with great satisfac-
ton the tendency of cities and towns
to replace large school committees or
boards, which have exercised through
subcommittee executive functions,
by small boards which determine gen.
eral policies, but intrust all executive
functions to salaried experts.
12. Local taxation, supplemented by
state taxation, presents the best means
for the support of the public schools,
and for securing that deep interest in
them which is necessary to their great
est efficiency State aid should be
granted only as supplementary to local