The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-03-16
HOME EDUCATION
TOUR DURING THIS
MONTH AND NEXT
Eight Southern States Included
in the Itinerary
SECOND ONE OF THE TYPE
Representatives of Bureau OF Ed
ucation of the Department OF
Interior and National Congress
of Mothers.

of Mothers.
Eight Southern States will be
included in a joint tour to be
made in March and April by rep
resentativeS of the Bureau of Ed
ucation of the Department OF the
Interior and the National Con-
gress of Mothers in the interest
of home education and close CO.
operation of home and school.
This is the second tour of this
type, one 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 citi-
zens Of Leesburg and Loudoun
county have already created a
! vigorous interest in the problem
of closer cooperation of home and
school. Other meetings have been
arranged for Eustis, Avon Park,
Fort Pierce, West Palm Beach,
Tampa, and other cities in Flori-
da. The tour will end at Nash
vile, Tenn, where the annual
meeting of the National Congress
of Mothers and Parent Teachers
Associations is to take place dur
ing the week of April All.
Among the speakers at these
meetings will be Mrs. Frederic
Schoff, Philadelphia, Pa, presi-
dent of the National Congress of
Mothers and Parent Teachers
Associations; Mrs. Milton P. Hig-
gins, Worcester, Mass, vice-pres.
National Congress of Mothers; !;
Mrs. VIM. f. Thacher, Washing
ton, ID. c.; Mrs. David O. Mears,
Albany, N. Y, vice-pres. National
Congress of Mothers; Mrs. Joseph
p Mumford, Philadelphia, Pa,
recently elected vice-pres. of the
National Council of Women; Miss
Bessie Locke, New York City,
Secretary of the National Kinder
garten Association; and Miss Lu-
cy Wheelock, Principal of the
kindergarten Training school,
Boston, Mass. Mrs. Schoff and
Miss Locke are also special COLA
bOratorS of the Bureau of Educa-
ton.
In discussing this and similar
movements for stimulating inter
est in education in the home,
Commissioner of Education Clax-
ton declares:
"People have sometimes
thought that the education of
children depends principally up
on the school They forget that
the school is only a supplement
tary agency, one which has for
most children come into exist
ence i'll very recent years. 1t does
only that which the home finds in
the complex life of the present it
can not do so well. The home is
always the central educational a
gency, 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 4 per cent of their
time from birth to q years of |
age. The home, the primitive and |
primary institution for the edu-
cation of children, is still the most
important agency for education
for life-physical, mental, moral, |
industrial, economic, social, civic.
Any agency, therefore, that would )
promote right education most eff
fectually must find some means
of cooperating with the home
and of helping parents, who are
the most constant, and should be I
the most effective, teachers of /
their children. "