The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-17
Home Education Tour For 1916.

Eight Southern States will be in.
Guided in a joint tour to be made in
March and April by representative:
of the Bureau of Education of the
Department of the Interior and the
National Congress of Mothers in the
interest of home education and closer
cooperation of home and school
This is the second tour of this type
enc arranged for last year having
covered the far western and Pacific
Coast States.
The first meeting to be held in
connection with the tour will be at
Leesburg, Va, where the citizens OF
Leesburg and Loudoun Counties have
already created a vigorous interest in
the problem of closer cooperation Of
home and school. Other meetings
have been arranged for Asheville, N.
c. March 8; Danville, Va, and Lin
colnton, N. c., March 9; Greensboro,
N. c., and Florence, S. c., March 10;
Spartanburg, S. c., March II; Co.
lumbia, S. c., March 10; Rock Hill
and Lancaster, S. c., March ii and
Is; Augusta, Ga, March Is; Charles
ton, S. c., March II; Savannah, Ca,
March 49, Meetings have also been
arranged in Eustis, Avon Park, Fort
Pierce, West Palm Beach, Tampa,
and other cities in Florida; Mont
gomery and Birmingham, Ala, March
20 and 80; and Columbus, Miss,
March 81 and April 1. The tour
will end at Nashville, Tenn, where
the annual meeting of the National
Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teachers Associations is to take
place during the week of April Ali.
Among the speakers at these NEE
ings will be Mrs. Frederick Schoff,
Philadelphia, Pa, President of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teachers' Association; Mrs.
Milton P. Higgins, Worcester, Mass,
Vice President, National Congress of
Mothers; Mrs. VIM. F. Thatcher,
Washington, D. c.; Mrs. David O.
Mears, Albany, N. Y, Vice-President,
National Congress of Mothers; Mrs.
Joseph P. Mumford, Philadelphia, Pa,
recently elected President of the
National Council of Women; Miss
Bessie Locke, New York, Secretary of
the National kindergarten Associa-
ton; and Miss Lucy Wheelock, Prin-
cipal of the kindergarten Training
School, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Schoff
and Miss Locke are also special COL
laborators of the Bureau of Educa-
ton.
In discussing this and similar
for stimulating interest
in education in the home, Commits
sioner of Education Claxton de-
clares:
people have sometimes thought
that the education of children depends
upon the school. They
forget that the school is only a sup
Elementary agency, one which has
for most children come into exist
ence in very recent years. 1t does
only that which the home finds in the
life of the present it can
not do so well. The home is al |
ways the central educational agency,
the one that deals with the little
child first, that deals with him most,
that has him most of the time during
the years of school, and is responsible
for him after he has left school.
american children are in school |
less than per cent of their time
from birth to 81 years of age. The
home, the primitive and primary in.
for the education of children
is still the most important agency
or education for Metaphysical, men
al, moral, industrial, economic, social,
,ivic. Any agency, therefore, that
would promote right education most
,ffectually must find some means Of i
with the home and Of
helping parents, who are the most
constant, and should be the most eff
ective, teachers of their children" ,