Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-12
SCHOOL PROBLEMS TO FRONT
Nebraska Professor Among Speakers
at Educational Meeting.
HIGH SCHOOL REPORT MADE
broad vocaAsSosl inusvuetiOn Recon
menasa IN order 20 Prepare rounE
studests FER Isstieiency-
Factor for democracy.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1i.-Departmental
meetings. at which the technical side of
pedagogical problems were lectured upon
and discussed BY experts, occupied del
egstes OF the National Educational assoc
iation today. ~,-'
Perhaps the largest attendance gathered
at the joint session OF the kindergarten. eio
mentary and special educational depart
ments where the school laggRrd" was the
subject OF discussion, Luther II. Quick,
director OF child hygiene OF the Russell
Sage foundation, New York City. drew con
illusions from his study OF retardation in
New York and was followed by S. l..
Heeter. superintendent OF schools Of st.
Paul; H. II. Goddard OF the New Jersey
school for feeble minded children and G.
w. A. Luekey OF the University of Neb-
raskR.
Animated discussion Followed the presen-
tation OF new plans for college admission
by Harvey N. Davis OF Harvard and Otis
w. Caldwell. of the University Of Chicago.
The Standardization of college entrance re
quirements was the question involved.
A luncheon in honor OF Mrs Ella Flags
Young was given today by the department
OF school patrons and AFFILIATED organixa-
tons which include the federation Of wo-
council OF Jewish women and the associa-
ton of collegiate alumnae.
High school Great Arena.
Declaring that 1.-THE high school today lie
the arena in which our greatest educational
problems should be worked out" the de-
partment on high schools today presented
Its report. '.t fae
The report was In line with the request
made last year by the department on high
schools. that the colleges revise their en-
trance requirements IN such a way that
the high schools might meet modern needs.
Formulated by a committee of nine edu-
Gators. the report cites the criticism of the
Carnegie foundation, that American educa-
ton, from elementary school to college, is
suffering from the attempt to teach too
may subjects to the same student at the
same time ava $50. Jf' ""
Considering some OF the special funo-
tions OF the high school, the report says:
THE high school must instruct every
student In the, elements of good citizen
ship. This duty cannot be- delegated to
the college because there is no guaran-
tee that any particular student will act
ually so to college,,
High school courses must be flexible,
for the high school period is the time for
the youth TO discover his bent
Broad vocational instruction should find
place in the high school to prepare for
efficiency. tt
Mechanics. arts agriculture, OF house
hold science should be recognized as ra-
tional elements in the education Of all boys
and girls and especially those who have
not as yet chosen their vocations.
High school attendance In this country
has increased almost four fold in the last
twenty years. II tho college will recognize
the true function Of the high school, this
marvellous growth will continue unabated
and tho American high school VIII become
an institution unparalleled as a factor for
democratic living. Il IL DOUBTFUL WHISTLER
any nation ever before possessed such an
opportunity" .--... 81. q, --.,-