New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-08-02
Hl)OLS GOING
ITO AMERICA
nd France Urge Con-
ation Of Education

Sinoton Aug. 2.-Every pubic
Entrusted with the support OF
Sic schools should know that Eu-
8pe,s lesson to the United States as d
&sas,,,t of the war is to keep the
Schools going and to make educatlon
during and after the war better anu
more effective than it has ever been
according to a broadside announce
ment entitled "Europe's Educational
Message to America" just issued by
+he Interior Department through It's
Bureau of Education, for circulation
among mayors, school board men,
bers and other public officials.
France Speaks.
do not let the needs of the hour,
however demanding, or It's puroehS
however heavy, or It's perllS'
however threatening, or it's sorrows,
however, hearbreaking, make you I'M
mindful of the defense of tomorrow
of these discipines through when the
individual may have freedom through
which an efficient democracy is pos
Sible. through which the institutions
of civilization can be perpetuated and
STRENGTHENED. Conserve, endure taxa
ton and priVation, suffer and Sacrlhce
to assure to those whom you nave
brought into the world that it shall
be not ONLY a safe but happy place
for them"
This is Frances message, as report
ed by J. H. Finley, Commissioner of
Education of New York state, in his
report on French schools in war
time.
Also England.
For FngIand. the Honorable H A.
r, Fisher, President of the English
Board of Education, who is in charge
of pending educational legislation Of
fundamental significance is quoted:
/ "At the beginning of the war, when
| first the shortage of labor became APP
parent a raid was made upon the
| schools. q great raid, q successful raid,
! q raid started by q large body of un-
| rejecting opinion. The result Of that
| raid upon the schools has been that
| hundreds of thousands Of children In
| this country have been prematurely
! withdrawn from school, and have suf-
! fered an irreparable damage, a dam
age which it will be quite impossible
! for us hereafter adequately to repair
THAT is a very grave and distressing
> symptom"
demonstrating British Education.
Final place on the broadside is Civ
en- to a report of the English commit
tee on Juvenile Education in Relation
| to EMPLOYMENT After the War, which
says:
"Any inquiry into education at the
present juncture is big with issues OF
| National fate. In the great work O.
| reconstruction which lies ahead there
are aims to be set before us which
will try, no less searchingly than wal
itself, the temper and enduring quail
ties of our race; and in the relaxation
of each and all these, education, witt
stimulus and discipline, must 'be ou1
stand -by. We have to perfect tht
civilization for which our men have
shed their blood and our women thei
tears; to establish new standards o
value in our judgment of what make
life worth living, more wholesome ant
more restrained in ideals Of behavior
recreation, finer traditions Of co-ol
Grafton and kindly fellowship betWee1
| class and class and between man ant
man.
These are tasks for a nation o
trained character and robust ply
sique, nation alert to the things o
the spirit, reverential of knowledge
reverental of it's teachers, and gener
Gus in it's estimate of what the pro
ductiOn and maintenance or goo'
teachers inevitably cost"