Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-09
And, Last but Not Least

The educational significance Of 9TH
er than school agencies is emphasized
in a current survey of educational pro-
gress just issued by the United States
Bureau of Education.
Libraries, museums, and art CALLER
les are unlocking their treasures, and
seeking to establish a very direct re-
lation to organized SHOOT work." de-
clares ". Carson Ryan, Jr., editor of
the bureau. Numerous other agencies
and organizations are doing a work
whose direct educational influence
must in the aggregate be enormous.
There are the 800 educational associ-
atoms, many of them, like the Nation
al Education Association and its
branches, doing direct work in the
professional education of teachers and
school superintendent: others, like
the National Society for the Promo
ton of Industrial Education. carrying
on a propaganda for education among
the general public: and still others,
like the public education associations
of New York and Philadelphia, inves-
tigating city conditions and stimulat-
ing an interest in education among
the people of the local community.
OrganiZa tons like the Russell Sage
Foundation, the New York Bureau of
Municipal Research. the Carnegie
Foundation. and the General Educa-
ton Board. have brought into the
ence of an impersonal, scientific judg-
ment. No record of the year in edua-
ton would be complete that did not
pay tribute to the work these organi-
cations and others Of the kind are do
ing.
colleges, universities, and normal
schools are going far beyond their
own walls in carrying education to the
local communities. Nearly half the
tension work last year. The Federal
government itself is realizing, as never
before, the desirability of wide dis
tribution of the scientific information
it has collected at large expense of
time and money, and many of the bull
1etins and circulars issued by the gov
eminent are now affecting directly the
everyday procedure of education. The
boys and girls club work in the De-
partment of Agriculture and the circu-
lar letter service of the Bureau of
Education illustrate two different
types of the information service of the
Federal government, both of recent
development. In the two years end
ing June 80. 1914. the Bureau of Edu-
cation issued 112 numbers of it's Bull
1etin, representing about million sep
arate copies, and covering nearly ev-
cry phase of educational endeavor for
the direct use of school officials.
IA host of other organizations max
ing no claim to a place in the formal
school system are nevertheless doing
active work of directly educational
nature. The Boy Souts, the Girl
Scouts. the Camp Fire Girls, women's
clubs. parent-teachers associations,
musical societies. art centers: these
are doing a work whose educational
importance is only beginning to be ap-
pretended. The influence of the fra
ternal organizations is directly educa-
tive. The whole vast field of religious
instruction in churches and Sunday
Schools represents an educational
problem that is seldom viewed as such
because Of the larger spiritual issues
that are felt to be involved. and be-
cause Of the traditional separation of
church and state in America Chau-
tauquas, farmers institutes, lecture
courses. the Grange, Young Mems
Christian Association. social settle
ments, summer camps. the periodical
and newspaper press-these are as
truly educational agencies as the
schools