Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-09-17

+ other than school agencies is
Emphasized in a current survey |
# educational progress just |
ssued by the U. S. Bureau of
Education.
Libraries, museums, and art
galleries are unlocking their
treasures. and seeking to estab-
lish a very direct relation to Or
ganized school work." declares
w. Carson Ryan, IT., Editor of
the Bureau. Numerous other
agencies aud organizations are
doing work whose direct edu-
cational influence must in the
aggregate be enormous. There
are the 300 educational assoia-
tions, many of them, like the
National Education Association
and its branches, doing direct
work in the professional educa
ton of teachers and school sup
erintendents, others. like the
National Society for the Promo
ton Of Industrial Education.
carving on a propaganda for
education among the general
public !; and still others, like the
Public Educ ational Associations
of New York and Philadelphia,
investigating city conditions and
stimulating an interest in educa-
ton among the people of the To-
cal community. Organizations
like the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, the New York Bureau of
Municipal Research, the Car.
negle Foundation. and the Gen.
eral Education Board, have
brought into the work of educa.
ton the welcome influence of an
impersonal, scientific judgment.
No record of the year in educa.
ton would be complete that did
not pay tribute to the work these
organizations and others of the
kind are doing.
Colleges, universities, and
normal schools are going far be-
yond their own walls in carrying
education to the local eommuni
| ties. Nearly half the college.
in the United States did extern
sion work last year. The Fed
eral Government itself is realiz
ling, as never before, the desira
bility of a wide distribution o
the scientific information it ha
collected at large expense of tim
and money, and many of the bull
letins and circulars issued by tn
Government are now affecting
ldirectly the everyday procedur
!of education. The Boys an,
lGirls Club work in the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the cir
cular letter service of the Burea
of Education illustrate two dill
:: ferent types of the information
) service of the Federal Govern
lment, both of recent develop
ment. In the two years endinl
June 80, 1914, the Bureau of Ed
ucation issued 112 numbers o
its Bulletin, representing abou
Il million separate copies, an,
covering nearly every phase 0
educational endeavor for the di
rect use OF school officials.
"A host of other organization
making no claim to a place i
the formal school system ar
nevertheless doing active wor
of a directly educational nature
The Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts
the Camp Fire Girls. women
jclubs, parent-teachers associa
ltions, musical societies, art cen
tiers; these are doing a wor
whose educational Importance
only beginning to be apprehend
led. The influence of the fra
ternal organizations is directl
. educative. The whole vast feel
of religious instruction in Sun
day Schools and churches repre-
sents an educational probler
that is seldom viewed as suc]
because of the larger spiritua
issues that are felt to be invo.v
led. and because of the traditional
separation of church and state i,
America. Chautauquas, farmers
institutes, lecture courses, tn,
IGrange, Young Mems Christia,
Association and Young Women
christian Association, social set
Elements, summer camps, til,
periodical and newspaper press
these are as truly educationa
agencies as the schools"
Sidna Allen Joins Church.
Richmond, Va, Sept. 49,
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