Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-04-03

accomplished during century and more
of experiment to hope for yet larger ac-
compishment through a perfected sys-
tenn, made SO by improvements based up
ON the results of experience and scientific
investigations. We dare not be compla-
cent For If they do these things i'm a
green tree, what shall be done i'm the
dry"
Ihc entire citizenship of our country is
aroused to-day as never before to tho
need of increased efficiency in educational
work thinking people have recognized
Tor some years the importance of cdu-
rauundl reimbursement, if not. indeed of
entire recreation of our free school policy
Tor the sake of larger and better cduca-
tonal service. Thoughtful minds are de-
handing the Improvement and harmonic
cation of our public school systems by
the conservation of all that is best in
existing systems, but they are also de-
handing that the rctarding and devital-
ling cXcrosccnccs be Topped off There is
demand for change of methods. for add-
tons to- instruction and for general en-
largement of the field of educational ac-
tivitY. These demands have set high
minded scholars and pubc-spirited men
existing educational conditions with
view to their betterment. The possible
ties afforded by the conclusions which
may he the outgrowth of such nvestiga-
lions will constitute a challenge to pa
trotism
Some notable cduca>lDnal investigations
have been conducted in recent years. The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
mont of Teaching, the General Education
Board and the Russell Sage Foundation
have made invaluable contributions to the
literature of educational administration.
| The United States department of aEriCu-
turo through its study of consolidated
Rural Schools and organization of n
County system" as conducted by Mr..
Gcorg" w. Knorr. special field agent of
the bureau of statistics, in 1910. has given
stimulus to- a movement for changed con-
ditions IN country schools. The United
States bureau Of education in 1911 gave
to the public the interesting Report of
the Commission Appointed Ia Study the
System of Education i'm tho Public
Schools of Baltimore" The Report Of
the Virginia Education Commission to the
General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Virginia. in 1872 resulted in a summary
of recommendations on the work of high
rr education in that old commonwealth
that has provoked a discussion which will
! certainly rebound to the good Of that
state. Or Harlan UpdeEraff. specialist in
school administration of the United States
bureau of education at the time, and al
present the professor of education in
Northwestern University, I'm 1912 issued
, flTnIluh ia Of pIi n
of Expenses of city School systems" In
the same year Superintendent II. y.
Brown of Colcbrook y. H., gave TO the
public through the bureau of education
the conclusions of his studies in the mat
ter of "The Riadjustment Of Rural
High School o'tho Needs uf the Com
munitN.' 1t was in this same year that
Or. Tpdegraff ana Mi William h. Hood
presented, through the bureau of educa-
tion "A Comparison Of Urban and Rural
Common School Statistics We also
have to the credit, of the year 1912 the
Report of the Temporary Educational
Commission to the Governor and Lesis-
I laturc of North Dakota" Already in
this current year Of 1913, vet hardly well
begun, DR. Ernest C. Moore, professor OF
education at Yale University. IN the
school Efficiency Series" edited by Prof.
I'au !. Hanus of Harvard University.
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School system of the city Of New York"
by Dr. Edward G. Elliott. director of the
school of education at tho I'nivorsitv Of
/ Wisconsin and spccial investigator of
til. United states bureau of education
Without any disbursement of the i'm.
r,rtance of the aforementioned renorts
il is but truth TO say that the work COM
mltted to the Vermont educational conf
mission by Governor Fletcher is more
nDortant than any of these because II
| includes more and is more far-rea ching
IN chance of effect The educational COM
mission of our State is not limited in ito
| work to the study OF the educational
needs of a given town or village or city:
il is not even confined in its investigations
| and recommendations to a single insti-
| tuition. 1t is directed to give attention ia
| the study of education in an entire State
! and TO make recommendations that will
effect for veal or for woe the childhood.
the vonthhood and indeed tho citizenshin
of every hamlet i'm our entire common