The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01
EDUCATIONAL RESOLUTIONS.

occasion OF the meeting of tho State
Educational Association:
Resolved, that the thanks of this
Association are due to the citizens of
Huron and authorities of Huron Col
lege who have SO generously opened
their hearts and homes and have done
SO much for the comfort and welfare
Of the te"chers here assembled.
We congratulate the Hon. II. A. U.s.
tr'd, state superintendent of Public
Instruction, on the successful admin
istration of the Office which he has
held for the last four years, and hope
that each incoming administration
may be able to do as much TO insure
future progress of our schools.
We appreciate the earnest, able and
self sacrificing efforts of the legisla-
tive committee, in formulating a new
educational code, and pledge ourselves
to use our best efforts TO cause the
changes therein suggested, to be en-
acted into law, at the earliest possible
moment.
We believe that the most important
and pressing educational demand of
the hour is the improvement of the
rural schools, and that the only way
now open to secure this improvement,
is by the enlargement of the district
units to the end that schools may be
consolidated, the organization improv-
ed and the teachings made more eff
fective.
We believe that the high school
courses should be the enriched and
strengthened; that the high schools
are the peoples colleges, that they
should be kept close to the people;
that their complete and entire indie
pendence should be maintained, and
that they should receive assistance
from the state as will enable them
more effectively to meet the modern
demands for manual and vocational
training.
We demand the fullest and most
complete elimination possible OF all
political influences from schools of
every grade and We believe that none
of them can return full equivalents
for the funds expended upon them so
long as such influences are possible,
Never in the history OF the world
has the moral stress and strain been
Oo SI0dl as dI int BItOtlll uds II
man or womait entering active life
faces temptation greater and o
dangerous than eve before known in
the worlds history. If we are to edu-
cate as we believe We should, for so
cial service, present conditions de-
mand the most complete and thorough
ethical and moral training, to the end
that the future citizens may be able
to confront the social dangers of the
hour and to render society the high
est service in his power.
We believe that the suppression OF
the liqu r traffic should receive the
thoughtful attention of all who are in
terested in education and social wei
fare, and We believe in the passage of
the county option law, as an effective
means to that end.
We also believe that the extension
Of suffrage to m is of vital i'm
portance in bringing about education
al progress; that it is an anomaly in
our social system, that those who are.
good enough to be our teachers, sweet
hearts, wives and mothers are not
enough to help us settle, by their bal
lots, the great educational, social and
political questions that confront mod.
ern civilization.
We believe that the appropriation Of
public funds for educational i|nstitu-
tons should be absolutely restricted
to those controlled by the State, and
we respectfully petition our senators
to vote against the appropriation of
public money for private interests in
any line of educational work.
We also urge upon u senators and
representatives the earnest considera-
ton OF the interests OF the National
Bureau of Education. We hope that
a way may be found to support it with
sufficiently liberality to enable us TO
carry on the large and important edu-
catiOnal work that it has undertaken.
We believe that the ideas of edu-
cation are changing; that the ideas OF
past centuries are no adapted to the
demands of the present law. We
therefore, believe that the introduc-
ton of this industrial and vocational
training into secondary and higher
schools is a necessity; that both state
and Nation should make the appro-
priation needed TO introduce into
these schools such instructions as will
tend to bring agricultural methods
to the highest efficiency.
We believe that the education Of the
girl should be differentiated from that
of the boy, and that she should re-
ceive training in child physiology, the
hygiene Of the child and d mestic
economy, as a special preparation for
her highest and noblest mission, that
Of wife and mother.
We believe that the tens of millions
expended annually for ~dreadnaughts
and other agents of destruction
should be devoted to the education
of the people, to the end that feeling
for right and righteousness be Great
ed. that should usher in that era Of
universal peace when
"The war drums throb no longer,
And the battle flags are furled.
In the parliament of man,
The federation of the world"
PROPOSED STATE EDUCATIONAL