Arizona republican., 1909-12-29

Fe tracks on their way to il. He spoke l of school environment" and intimated i that it was not what it should be eith- ! CT at the Central or the high school | The school code is not well adapted tO
 conditions and should be remodeled by
 the legislature.
 Professor Stabler. in his talk on the relation of the home to the school | brought out an excellent point. and : that was that the home should incul- cate in the child the spirit of honor and not the school. The character of ! the child is moulded at home and all i the efforts of teachers to change it ! for the better will avail little. A resolution was introduced and | passed protesting against the use of ! the Hetch- Hetchy valley in the Yel- ! lowstone National park as a source of water supply for San Francisco. The
 resolution will be forwarded to the president and the secretary of the in- terior who will be asked to revoke the existing permit. The matter was : brought to the attention of the chubby the Society for the Preservation of
 National Parks.
 The address of Superintendent Loper was substantially as follows:
 The city of Phoenix is 10 be com plimented that it has an organization of ladies that will make a place on the program of its meetings for the discussion of questions concerning the public schools of your city and coun- ty. Ii matters not how efficient a sys- tenn we may have. a fair discussion of that system. of its wants and needs must result in much good.
 When I was asked to take a place on this program 1 received the inn pression that I was to discuss the de- fects of the school system of the coun- ty and incidentally of the city of Phoe- nix. but I see that as the program has been announced in the papers of the city that have been assigned a still boarder subject, Our Public Schools" With your permission I will confine what l may say-in most part-to a few of the defects of the system as see them. and make no attempt to coy er the entire subject as printed in your program.
 That there are defects in our school system, that it is not perfect, we will all agree: but just what the defects consist of is a question upon which may exist many opinions. and I think these opinions will differ, somewhat depending on the individual who points them out; and I may venture to say that they will depend somewhat on the vocation of the person making the criticism for the reason we all see things largely from the viewpoint that comes most nearly touching our lives yet We may safely classify those who praise. criticise or pass judgment upon the public school into two general classes-teachers and those who are directly connected with the work, and into the other class We may place the public.
 All will agree with me that the state has established public schools and maintains them for the purpose of giving every boy and girl in this land of ours. whether rich or pooC an education. Of just what that edu- cation should consist, there seems to be q wide difference of opinion
 Parker the great educational writer. says that the foundation of educa- tion consists in training a child to work, to love work. to put the energy of his entire being into work: to do that work which best develops his body. mind and soul: to do that work most needed for the elevation of man. kind.''
 more recent declaration of the purpose of the public school is set forth in the declaration made by the National Teachers association at it's convention in the city of Denver dur ing the past summer: "The purpose of our system of free common schools must continue to be chiefly culture for the individual and the transmits sion to posterity of the results of in- vestigations and deliberations of the past. Our free schools must advance along the lines of educational democ- racy, in the sense that they must pro- vide equal educational opportunities for all. Although they must give practical preparation, not only for the professions. but also for commercial life. the demands of any part of the business world that courses of study be subordinated to particular interest is not in accord with the proper aims of national system of common schools"
 The state relies on the public school for good citizenship. What the public expects of the public schools is not so easily stated. and would vary depending on the vocation of the in- dividual outlining the work for us The business man would demand one