Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-26
IOWA TO ENTER
NATIONAL CONTEST
State to Compete for Prize Offered by
Moral Instruction Institute.
NINE EDUCATORS FROM
EACH STATE TO STUDY
Will Then Seek to Devise Best Plan
for Moral Instruction i'm Schools
and Best Suggestions Will
Share in $4,000 in
Prizes

| 0tdte superintendent Oh PuDllc In
struction A. M. Deyoe has completed
the plans for Iowa entering the con-
test being conducted by the National
Institution for Moral Instruction.
This organization, with headquarters
at Washington, d. c., is offering
$4,000 in prizes for the best meth
Cd of character education in public
, schools suggested by especially Sc
lected educators.
Four hundred and thirty-two Sc
lected professional educators, nine to
each state, will study for year to
discover, if possible, improved meth
DDS for educating the character of
| children in the public schools. Each
of the states has a commission which
will offer a code and the prizes go to
the members of the commission, or
collaborators as they are called, who
offer the best code.
Each state has a committee of
which the state superintendent is the
chairman known as the committee
of selection, which committee in turn
chooses the collaborators who are to
work out the morals code.
In addition to the state superin-
tendent the other two members of
the committee of selection in Iowa
are President Walter A. Jesup, state
university, Iowa City, and Hon. John
Hammill, Britt. The list of collabora-
tors for Iowa, as chosen by the state
committee of selection, includes the
following; DR.. Chauncey o. Colgrove,
president Upper Iowa University
Fayette; Right Rev. Daniel M. Cor
man, president Dubuque College,
Dubuque; DR.. Edwin Diller Starbuck,
professor of philosophy, State Uni
versity of Iowa, Iowa City; Rabbi
Emanuel Sternheim, Sioux City; DR..
Edward Alfred Steiner, professor of
applied christianity, Grinnell Col
lege; Mrs. Anna L. Burdick, d0H,or
of vocational guidance, Des Moines
public schools; A. It. Hukill, city
superintendent, West Waterloo; II.
e. Blackmar, city superintendent,
Ottumwa; A. c. Fuller, Jr., profess
sor of rural education, Iowa State
Teachers College, Cedar Falls.
Tbo nnl1o tnr ra u;uav WOO -
to work out their plans beginning
with Washington's birthday, 1918.
In outlining the contest the Ma
tional Institution for Moral Instruc-
ton, which is promoting the affair,
states that the following are typical
of the questions which it will be prop
err for them to consider in prepare
tion for their conclusions as to the
best methods of character education:
How to get children to under
stand and appreciate the wisdom of
moral experience. How to develop
personal convictions in matters of
morality in the minds of the children
themselves, and the will to live up to
these convictions. How to help chill
dren from character habits. How to
correlate school and home life so as
to influence character development
together. What character education
should be given teachers themselves
as a preparation for personal infiu-
ence over character development of
children. How shall teachers be en-
lighte1ed as to the moral ideas to be
inculcated and how trained to effici-
ency in the use of the methods of
character education"