East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-19

liza s trouble. The town that is too
parsimonious to secure good water
generally winds up by spending its
money for coffins.
According to dispatch from Wash
ington. the United states department
OF education has ar
Open for ranged for visit OF
Improvement. about twenty-five AM
erican teachers to
Germany for six months study of the
trade continuation schools of Munich
Il is pleasant to note this further
proof OF the frank willingness on the
part of the Bavarian people to put all
their educational plans and methods
freely at the disposal OF other nations
comments the Chicago News.
Attempts have been made in Ger
many OF late to stop this exchange of
ideas. "Is it prudent or wise" re-
Gently asked substantial newspaper
o. Cologne, the Kolnische Zeitung. ito
go on educating young men from
abroad, whose mother countries are
our markets." That newspaper
doubts the wisdom of enabling young
foreigners Ito master our scientific
technical processes. to become ac-
Quainted with our methods and to
learn how We go to work to attain
our success Must We" il inquiries.
train thousands and thousands of for
eigners TO be our competitors" :.
The same question was asked by
commission of 1s07-l1. after an ex-
haustive study of vocational educa-
ton in Europe and the United States,
published three volume report, in
which 1t recommended that the Ger
man plan be adopted for Sweden. But
Kerchensteiner and Haese and others
of the bigger school me nof Germany
came out boldly for free trade in ideas
so the movement to shut out foreign
investigators from the vocational and
other schools made little headway.
There is another. side to the picture.
Occasionally an American leader in
school affairs assures the people OF
this country that I'VE have nothing
TO learn from Germany" This was
the view Of the famous thirty-one
schoolmasters OF Boston who attack
ed Horace Ham, foremost of Amer
lean educators. OF those schoolmast.
ers Mann wrote in 1874: There are
owls who, to adapt the world to their
own eyes would always keep the sun
from rising. Most teachers amongst
us have been animated to greater ex-
ertions by the account of the best
schools abroad. Others are offended
at being driven out Of the paradise
which their own self-esteem has cre-
ated for them
J 1t would be unfortunate if the bat
tie for free trade in learning were
won by the enlightened educationa
leaders of Europe only to be lost b.
the narrow self-sufficiency of educa
tors of other countries. The Unitet
States is not likely to fall into thi
mistake. 1t was of the school sys
tenn of an American city. st. Louis
that Dr. Kerschensteiner wrote, afte
his return home to Munich from thi
country in 1911: 1.-The doors of tha
school system stand open to ever
educational movement that anywher
in the world can show success"
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II all the building schemes now j
D contemplation in Pendleton are cal
l ried out this year the prodigal sor
I won't know the place when they com
home.
s For $4,000 the government shoul
: be able to construct very substal
n tial little building at the corner
n Garden and Alta.
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Villa and the constitutionalists see
:, to have possession of about all
!. Mexico excepting the capital.
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The Roundup will be late enoui
:, this year that no farmer will ne
remain away.