Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-12
NFR|CAN SCHOOLS
| NOT NEARLY PERFECT
...,+v of Chicago Professor Says
1,aces of Education Do Not Fill
Place They Should. :.
:, TO TRAIN THEM
= TO BE HELPFUL MEMBERS.

hid be Trained to Give Back Some
poturn to Society for What He
or She Has Received.
|hicaco, July 12.-American schools
4, tbe present systems of education
Iot fl, the !iac5 they should in fit
. boys and girls for manhood and
Donbocd. according to Professor W.
hrocchntcck. o. the University of
laco. Professor MacClintock has
advocated radical reforms in
lrican schools which he believes
tend to make the young graduates
Ad to take mp their duties as cit
Today he gave to the United
N his IDEAS as to the changes need
ID H'f
, He said:
rbe fest of our school system is
Aber it prepares our young people
Make vital places in a real, social
Sd-a world of all the people, a
h of real, not accidental needs and
ice. In many ways our schools are
4 upsocial. They do not give the
,Ac people what is needed to make
A self.suppOrting when they leave
90 out into the world. They do
,piye them the things which society
Dad to pay them for.
In many ways our women are the
'unsocial' of the two sexes, and
schools for girls, of course, with
exceptions, especially fail to
Young women to be helpful mem
of society, and the word society
sbt used in the narrow, limited sense.
are trained in cultivated, but
ocial' seclusion. They are taught
3e members of false society on
NJ they do not earn and do not
II how it is earned, on a scale which
world really cannot afford, and
! a social exclusiveness and snob-
which isolates them from the vast
brity of mankind.
IN order to be genuinely social, the
Sidual must begin to make a re-
to society for what he or she has
bng been receiving. And this re-
4 must be in some vital kind of SER
which society needs,
For a matter of 20 years on the
pge young people of today are 're-
ers only; they have taken food,
Ming, shelter, the experience Of 9th
leisure and play. But while they
been receiving all this gratis few
EN- have had it made plain to them
b they were like a building in the
be Of construction which, when
Sleted at the end of 20 years, must
'ht to good use. They can become
only by enthusiastically giving
to society for the rest Of their
something worth while, And this
HI return may be stated not as
self.sacrifice, a service, but as
'Rasure Of the highest kind, and a
ege Of all things most needed
+ { people need to be taught that
ever gets something for nothing
+ something received, must be paid
ome time.
Again, we become social by learn
% work, to know and respect Ia
ldleness is the greatest social sin
s individual should be expertly ca
of clothing, feeding, shelterinp
"A entertaining himself or herself
should receive no certificate Of
ation, no diploma, until he can
the ability to do so.
e must know what his pleasure
npport cost in human labor and nc
Afe person should be allowed tC
the world owes him a living OF
be is free to 1--we on the labor Of
N without making a return in
eing social implies cooperation
ltfieult art Of working, not fol
X fith others. 1t is much easier to
alone, to sacrifice oneself. Co
lon means respect for others, con
puon, tolerattion, limiting ones
tendencies, agreeing to work in
} oni patience with faults of 9th
fefOSal to have what others have
lnless 1t has been earned by more
or as a reward. A social person
" who is capable Of rapid anc
pnt exchange of ideas. It mean,
ng and parting with persons Of
passes and neither giving nor re
W. harm. Good breeding, iustic,
sense Of humor are the thre,
tials for this.
ne social relization is often bes'
Pnshed by working with other
ome higher ideal. 1t is difficult
social with ones immediate com
In but even two rivals can cper
pgether toward some common good
modern communities offer highe
institutions in which the indi