Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-07
EDUCATION OUTSIDE Of SCHOOL

EDUCATION OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
The educational significance of otl-
CT than school agencies is emphasiz,
ed in a current survey of educational
progress just issued by the United
States Bureau of Education.
Libraries, museum, and art CALLER.
les are unlocking their treasures,
and seeking to establish a very direct
relation to organized school work.
declares w. Carson Ryan, Jr., editor
Of the bureau. Numerous other agen.
Cies and organizations are doing a
work whose direct educational influ-
ence must in the aggregate be enor.
mous. There are the 800 educational
associations, manysof them, like the
National Education association and
its branches, doing direct work in
the professional education of teach.
ers and school superintendent; 9th.
ers, like the National Society for the
Promotion of Industrial Education
carrying on a propaganda for educa.
ton among the general public; and
still others, like the public education
associations Of New York and Plila.
delphia, investigating city conditions
and stimulating an interest in educa'
ton among the people of the local
community. Organizations like the
Russell Sage Foundation, the New
York Bureau of Municipal Research,
the Carnegie Foundation, and the
General Education Board, have
brought into the work Of education
the welcome influence of an imper'
sonal, scientific Judgment. No record
of the year in education would be
complete that did not pay tribute to
the work these organizations and 9th.
ers of the kind are doing.
Colleges, universities, and normal
schools are going far beyond their
own walls in carrying education tc
the local communities. Nearly hall
the colleges in the United States did
extension work last year. The fed
eral government itself is realizing, as
never before, the ~desirability Of q
wide distribution of the scientific in
formation it has collected at large ex
pense of time and money, and many
OF the bulletins and circulars issued
by the government are now affecting
directly the everyday procedure of ed
ucation. The Boys and Girls Club
work in the department OF agriculture
and the circular letter service of the
Bureau Of Education illustrate two
different types of the information ser
vice of the federal government, bot.
of recent development.
"A host of other organizations max
ing no claim to a place in the formal
SCuOOl SySLcm are ucSSl lIIClCoo uO1l6
active work of a directly educational
nature. The Boy Scouts, the Girl
Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, WON
EMS clubs, parent-teacher associa'
lions, musical societies, art centers;
these are doing a work whose educa.
tional Importance is only beginning
to be appreciated. The influence of
the fraternal organizations is directly
educatiye. The whole vast field of
religious instruction in churches and
Sunday schools represents an educa-
tional problem that is seldom viewed
as such, because of the larger spirit
ual issues that are felt to be involv-
ed, and because of the traditional
separation Of church and state in
America. Chautauquas, farmers in
,stitutes, lecture courses, the grange,
Young Mems Christian association
and Young Women's Christian associ.
stion, social settlements, summer