The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-06
HOW SCHOOLS GAN
HELP WIN THE WAR
NOTED EDUCATOR SPEAKS AT IN
LAND EMPIRE TEACHERS
MEETING

SPOKANE-"The great problem OF
education today is to develop a type
of culture for the masses" said James
Fleming Hosic of the Chicago Normal
College in an address before the In
land Empire Association of teachers
holding it's annual convention here.
Mr.. Hosic's subject was Some Need
ed Contributions of Education to
American Democracy" He said:
"In order tt fulfill it's function at
the present time, public education
must serve democracy as a whole.
This means, in the first place, a con-
ception of democracy broad enough to
include not only citizenship and gov
eminent, but also the various occu-
pations, home making, and the activ-
tiles of recreation and leisure. The
application of the idea of self-govern-
ment is fairly clear to a majority of
Americans, tho even here the schools
have still a large responsibility and
should discharge it by making familiar
to all American children the ideals
which have found expression in such
masterpieces as Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address, Lowell's The : Present
Crisis and the recent speeches of
Woodrow Wilson.
SIN the field of occupations the
schools must provide opportunity for
some acquaintance with different
types of vocation, such as commerce,
industry, and the professions, and in
the high school and college, adequate
technical training in preparation for
these kinds of service. Definite ideals
of home making, moreover, must be
instilled, and the young people in u
high schools and colleges must have
definite training for the responsible
ties of the household.
GAS for recreation and the use of
leisure, the great problem of educa-
ton today is to develop a type of Gull
ture that shall be possible for the
masses. Obviously this cannot rest
upon the requirements of a knowledge
of foreign language or of extensive
acquaintance with art museums, but
must realize itself in literature, in
good tho popular music, in a healthy
community drama, in gardening, IN
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"Such social ideals as outlined above
can be secured only by school work
which is as real to the students as the
life outside the school. There must
opportunity for initiative on the
part of the individual for straight
thinking, for the use of his own judg-
nent and power of organization. The
school must develop those who a
,ead, but above all those who can CO.
operate; it must inspire all with the
great purpose which constitute Ameri-
it must elevate the idea OF
preparation for some specific service
O the community; and it must con-
inue to open the door or opportunity
wider and wider to every child no
natter what the limitations imposed
lpon him by reason of the accident OF
is birth.
''The school master of the near
uture must see American life steadily
nd see it whole, not only as a national
ife, but also as a part of the great
amily of nations soon to be united
n common democratic aspirations.
With the greatest sc~hoolmaster of our
lme in the Presidents chair directing
ublic opinion, there is every reason
Or educators to rejoice in the wonder
III opportunity which is obviously
waiting them