The Washington herald., 1914-07-03
men TEACHERS
ONLY IN 1880?
Commissioner Of Education
Predicts Radical Changes
in School System.
TO LIVE In "TEACHERY"
Educators of the Future Will Conduct
Model Farm-Six-year High
School Courses.

Man-taught pupils will be the leading
feature of the schools of this country in
the year 1880. according to DR.. Philander
p. ClaXton, United States Commissioner
of Education.
He is a strong advocate of many radi-
cal changes in the public school systems
of our great cities and rural communi-
ties. Looking forward a quarter OF a
century, here are some Of the changes
he predicts:
In place Of girls. Just out of their
teens, men Of experience will be en-
ployed to do the teaching. 1t will be
their duty not only to act as teachers,
but also to act as leaders in their COM
munities.
Teachers will be provided with a suit
able home or ''teachery," just as clergy
men are given parsonages. and they will
conduct a model farm, keeping in close
touch with all the agencies devoted TO
improving rural conditions and life.
VIII Study PuPiIs.
Instead Of students in the city schools
changing teachers every year. half year
or quarter, teachers will accompany their
pupils from the lowest to the sixth grade,
or where department work begins In
this manner teachers will understand
their pupils better and can perform far
better service than at present in the
capacity of guides and moral mentor.
Six-year elementary schools will re-
place the eight-year institutions OF today.
The high school Of the future will have
a course covering a period OF at least
six years. At present the seventh and
eighth grades Of the elementary schools,
for the most part, are marking time.
or the pupils in them are receiving in
structions in high school subjects from
instructors unqualified for that particu-
lar work.
Many so-calIed Colleges throughout
the country, now endeavoring with very
little success to give college courses. win
become preparatory schools of junior
colleges in which students will be pre-
pared for their freshman work.
This will means materially lower
mortality rate" Sixty per cent Of pres
ent college entrants 'die" before com
pleting the junior year. Under the new
arrangement, IL is thought, at least IS
per cent would be successful. These
junior colleges will employ only men Of
the highest ability and finest personality.
Children will be made to do work, pre-
ferably gardening or other work, that
will keep them out of doors Touching
or this topic, DR.. Claxton said:
Contributions arc Needed.
THE children ought not to be ground
in the shop or the mill, but should work
with their feet in the soil. their heads
in the sunshine and breathe Egood air.
They will go home tired and with health
for their old age BY this means many
children could stay in the school longer
than at present"
Great cities viii have a number Of
"half-and-half schools. In these in
stitutions boys and girls who are COM
PEELED to work will go TO school one week
and work in store or factory the next
week
Recent bulletins issued by the United
States Bureau Of Education contain the
following items Of general interest:
Telling the people through the news
papers and in other ways Of the 100 or