The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-12-27

of helpful advice of criticism of encouragement
the abilities of its members could supply.
To protect such organization and to make independent
of politics. the head Of the educational system should be the
executive officer of small board who should be pubcpited
citizens serving without salary and acting the advisers and
helpers of the educational head Of the system The board
should be lay board not board of educational experts and
should have place upon it who directly concerned
interested any school educational institution of the
state The function of such board not to furnish expert
advice furnish sound counsel and to stand the pro-
tecor of the whole school system against interference is
it's duty that the head of the school system and all others
associated with working in the spirit of education
from any other motive Some such organization would be
competent to deal with the problem of education whole
not in pecemeal organization not unrelated princ
pals and teachers To-day everywhere in the world
the results of efficient organization Organization can be
ried far that it limits personal initiative and Individual
development In America however all tendencies In
the other direction We ignore the results of good oganza
ton and affect belief that Americans unframed and
ganized able to compete with the best training and the
effective organization Such organization here
suggested would make for efficiency at loss of individual
freedom.
So far therefore the results of this study the
general public school system of Vermont they contained
in the recommendations Establish competent educational
administrations free it from political interference; give it
free hand work out of study that shall meet the
peoples needs train teachers who able to deal with
its fe and develop those vocational schools which may min
directly the opportunities which offer themselves
to the Vermont boy and the Vermont girl.
The situation that exists higher education in the state
is likewise dealt with in detail in the sections referring to the
separate institutions of higher learning which participate the
sae subsidy Briefly stated there three institutions that
for years have been obtaining from the state treasury larger
smaller appropriations In recent years these have
grown rapidly until at present the three colleges receiving
from the state something 100000 annually In addition
the state receives from the federal for educational
purposes $88,000
Elsewhere in the report the process through which this
situation has been brought about is fully described Begin
ming thirty years ago with small appropriation to single
rof{
successfully applied the legislature for share in the states
The increase of the appropriation by the friends of
one signal for increase in the appropriation for
the Others and by perfectly natural the three nsu
tons have been led into rivalry alike harmful to them, to
the state and education The struggle for the college appro
priatons less intimately connected with all other
legislation Many abuses have crept in to help out the plea
for such appropriations to justify it The substituting of
students by scholarships of them be conferred by
bers of the Senate particularly to be regretted Such SUBJ
sides students nearly always unwse and if given at
ALL they ought be open students under fair system
of competition and should entte the holder to go not to
particular institution but any institution that he may choose
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