New Britain herald., 1917-12-12

tindiViduaI members; second, there
must be unlimited points Of social
contact among the members, and
among different groups. BY this
means the individual may develop to
+ his full capacity and the social fab
ric as whole be kept flexible and free
from Stratification.
The members of such a body or
nation, must have a type Of educa-
ton, adapted to this way of acting.
obviously, the standards of education
of other nations, with different ideals,
will not serve. OF this, we are more
convinced now than we were a few
years ago, when we were more eager
to adopt the principles of education
of certain European nations, than we
were to discover a type to tit our
own. That form Of education ESQ
! called which imposes information or
ways of doing without providing for
the learners participation in the pur-
poses the project-that form, properly
in democracy one must feel oneself
called Training, is not adapted to our
needs for it does not develop the
mental habits, required for effective
living in democracy
THAT form Of training, instead of
education, is useful for nations,
which put a premium upon receptive
ity, servility, instead of upon inde-
pendence. To be an effective citizen
in q democracy one must feel oneself
and ones acts a part of the social
whole; must have many social con-
tracts, social interests; one must be
able to think for ones self for the
good OF the whole, as one sees it;
10 see relations; to Judge; to deter
mine; to iact independently and re-
sponslDly; to lead, and to easily read
just. A democracy must habituate it's
young to these standards through
fnelr education by ample experiences,
else when the stress of Responsible
tles comes, the response will fail
democracy. Hence, that form of
education which not only fosters
physical and spiritual health, but
which also focuses in some social end,
that the student feels (Which mott
Yates his endeavor): which requires
of him investigation, experimentation;
which demands his selection of re-
lated data, and the formation of judg-
mons before the ends are reached:
which provides, that power as it de-
velops shall function in orth-while
experiences; which uses books as
tools; and teaches how to think in
stead of how to recall-in short that
type of education that considers
physical and spiritual health, and
makes for f1exibility independence and
social cooperation, is the type need
ed in a democracy. Such a type is
based upon the idea of education as
growth which is possible only as the
learner is conscious of the relation
of his work to some social end, when
he shares in the purposes of the I'M
dertaking, emOtionally as we'll as in
tellectually, when the presence of a
problem, or a project, challenges his
powers, and the solution, yields some
satisfactions.
This is the accepted ideal, Of the
type of education, which best edu-
Gates for democratic living. It is
the problem, Of the teachers of our
own country to study the means, by
which it may be incorporated into
our public schools; it is no easy task,
but neither are many other things
that are being done heroically to per-
petuate democracy. Many phases OF
such a type are already incorporated.
The traditions of earlier ways are
the greatest difficulties now in the
way. When we are finally convinced,
that participate instead of repro
duction is the means of development,
we shall have in our democracy,
type of eduaction adapted to democ-
racy.
Mattabessett tribe, I. O. r. NJ. will
keep open house New Years eve.