Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-04-15


periences with the Foundation, emphaticaly we
confident people and the Carnegie Foundation
people come know each other better and to understand
each others needs and aims adequately the
will be still emphatcaly, OF the educational body
member say eve have need of thee We not
make all members Of the body hands, all members of the
body feet or all head or heart or brain.
Somebody has said all men not be shaped in the self
same mold, and it would be a queer world if could In
estimation that the first great lesson the Carnegie
Foundation has to learn in connection with it's project for
the Standardization of education colleges like schools must
be adapted to their environment
The Carnegie Foundation got glimpse of the truth
underlying this generalization when it said in the report of
its survey Vermont that the children of agricultural
community should not be educated from agriculture
and that teachers of common schools should be trained
State because education elsewhere would tend to
draw them away from Vermont
If the Carnegie Foundation could realize that the
of this proposition is also true and adapt its methods
of Standardization in various States accordingly differen
atng between the urban region and the rural section
OF it's difficulties would disappear You can not give New
York boy either Broadway apprenticeship Bowery
training and expect him to be conened successful either
in Burlington bank Baltimore farm. You not
fit metropolitan system to rural school vice
The greatest will from the mutual adaptation
Of the educational system institution and its constituency
To that every man desiring to be physician must
be run through the Yale mold that all colleges must be
is to contrary the spirit of democratic institutions
and the very principle underlying social fabric The Green
part Of New York but they insisted upon retaining their
own identity and being themselves That spirit is
government especially in the United States Senate where
the States demanded absolute equality far statute and
organic law could provide such equality In like the
tity in education.
y to discussion Of the system of pensions for teachers
subject not germane to the situation in Vermont Regard
ing the education bill framed by the commission Mr. Prch
the 1.-The chief and sa T against the bill
college with an organized band of alumni continues Mr.
Pritchett can stir up more dust before the Legislature
than two thousand public schools and yet Vernonts prob
lem of education is to be settled in the rural schools For
generation they have been conducted to train men
e o woe away r n IN M ssa a to " Rn ne of
claim have these isolated country and village schools to be
the Legislature in their behalf No newspaper
champions their needs What chance have they in com
parson with the movement conducted by the colleges the
normal schools and the medical schools with their graduates
in every town? And yet the cold fact remains
rural schools free them from politics. and turn their faces
that day perhaps the Foundation report will be of
The Carnegie Foundation has good for dis
Vermont On the contrary has started great movement
in this State Different commentators have said and
again in varying form that All things considered the
most important of the Legislatures session is the
bill reorgaizng the educational system of the State far
reaching act which centralized authority in the hands of the
schools"
More accomplished than the commission had right
to expect in view Of the arbitrary in which it went
its work and more even than Mr. Prtche may yet realize
what suggested for the rural schools and in other d
rections.
Mr. Prchet overooks the fact that Vermont rural school
conditions represent effect much a AS
have already indicated in columns the school
problem in Vermont does not differ materially from that in
Massachusetts that in New York with which have the
familiarity born of somewhat proracted association Many
a village which lourished in Vermont and New York
died when the advent of the railway the signal for
village about the station few miles distant and these
have their little manufacturing industries dry
up under the whitening blast of the specialized industry
like wagon manufacture in the great centes the consoda
ton of and pillow manufactures and host of other in
dustries which formerly thrved in local communities.
The disappearance of these thriving industries with
their local markets. and legislation encouraging to
look elsewhere investment have combined to drive young
and to the larger centers and their loss has
children for the rural schools, well greater
burdens for the families remaining, and naturally
schools
The Rockefeller Foundation working in the South
Guided the way improve rural school conditions with
pauperzation teach the communities to improve
their own material conditions especially through farm
methods, better schools followed matter of
The Carnegie Foundation has begun a grand work in
seeking to bring about improved educational conditions in
the northern States and if it will realize that people
ready cooperate along lines suggested by the combined
experiences of the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundatons