The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-07-16
PARENT ANp pEptsas,tI
Responsibility TIA. Hem shifted fsar
the Home "a the school

the Home 10 the school
Tho coincidence of two receat
ntterances In London contained
some profitable suggestions on a
topic which seems to be OF much
current interest In the United King.
dom, and which is one of the most
important In all the complicated
problems OF American sociology
That is the relationship or the e,n-
iraet. between parents and peda.
gogues and the respective parts
which the home and the school are
10 play in tie education aud traih-
ing Of the child.
Al meeting of the British Goa
stitution Association paper an
Elementary Education was read
in which strong ground was taken
against exaggeration of the compai-
sorry principle in schools and 'be
supposititions corollary OF entire
freedom from fees Free educa-
ton, said the speaker. had develop
ed into free feeding of children and
free medical inspection, leading to
free treatment and the latest devel-
opment was that school authorities
We're responsible for accidents to
the children on the Fairgrounds. It
might also be imagined from pres
ent day legislation that God gave
children to the state br municipality
instead OF. to the parents.
At the same time there was held
conference OF the National FEEDER
alton of Christian Workers Among
Poor Children, ct which the speaker
strongly deprecated the surrender Of
children to the street instead OF keep
ing them at home. No training
ground, not even the school. he urg-
ed, could take the place of homo.
and no other influence could COM
pensate for lack OF parental control.
Although these two utterances and
the two gatherings at which they
were made were entirely separate
and distinct, there was marked
parallelsm of thought and convic
ton Oh this matter, and the utter-
anccs were correct and deserved,
and would be so in New York as
well as in London. IL is dishear,-
ening, too. that to an alarming ex-
tent parental control OF children has
been relaxed. II not altogether aban-
ioneI. and responsibility not only
FOR technical instruction but for
moral culture and general discipline,
has been shifted from the home TO
the school. New Jersey socialist
recently secured some notoriety by
herdins his young children In a
building of their own where they
might live as they pleased and grow
up as they pleased without parental
aid. control or oversight. Some New
Jersey communities left 1t to the
suffrages OF small children to de-
eide whether or not there should be
oh tuC To0ItA vi July I.
These tricks and capers were minor
systems OF an evil which Is attaining
ominous proportions and the effects
Of which are seen with increasing
frequency in Juvenile and Adde'S
cent vice and crime.
Tie laws Of nature are not to be
discarded with impunity. land there
Is probably none OF them more i'm
peretiye or more MEMORABLE in Its
exaction OF penalties for It's violation
than that which prescribes parental
care for ana control of their chill
dren and dutiful subsection of chill
dren TO their parents. no satisfaG-
tory substitute for that Relationship
has vet been found, and 1T may we'll
he believed that any attempt to abb
rogate that law. whether in favor
OF commune or school. y sure to re-
suit in disgust. York Tribune.
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