East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-05
TRAINING AMERICAN CITIZENS BY TEACHING
CURRENT PROBLEMS.
wv HAT are college Juniors observing in chemistry expert
~ Sam?


What are high school graduates thinking about the French
Revolution who believe that Lloyd George king of Ireland
Samuel Gompers noted American poet Henry Cabot Lodge
promoter of spirtuam Sim Fen lawess mob IN Russia
students training for efficiency industry who have no
idea what collective bargaining, budget and sale" TAX
mean?
How are school and college students preparing for citizen
ship who think the Knox peace resolution called for indemnity
from Germany that peonage the murder of employees or
that the last two constitutional amendment to federal con-
suon brought us railroads. steamships paved streets and less
immigration?
The foregoing questions asked by the Institute of Public
Service of which julius H. Barnes is chairman, report is
sued today how II 500 school and college students averaged
only n cr cent in answering questions abol5 frequently men,
toned persons places and problems of national concern
The taken by 100000 students in all parts of the
country and issued by the Review of Reviews The returns
from II 500 were given to the Institute for Public Service
study Its report gives the earned by different classes
follows College Juniors and seniors go per cent college
freshmen 53 per cent high school seniors 81 cent high
school d year so per cent high school End AZ per cent
high school LIST cent school seniors az per
cent grammar school 7h grade 20 per cent Of 7500
only 1872 earned 80 cent 1885 earned over 80 cent
and 2I08 or one IN seven earned over ~ per cent
to the recent claim of the American Federation of Labor that
school textbooks omit msrepesent abor point of view the
institutes report asks there less danger to society from text
books which omit mpesent anybody point of view than
from schools which fail to teach current events.
The practical question said to be not whether students
should stop reading and talking about but whether they should
be taught to study current events purpoeuy 1t suggested
that current problems are to be used at ALL schools should not
trust to information sticking to Students but should carefully
test students the they read and on what they understand
and digest
Z The Institutes summary is in part as follows:
The current events questions were not catch questions call
ing for freak Instead they called for knowledge and
understanding of frequently mentioned places and issues
affecting national life like Uncle SAM Samuel Gompers,
Budget Director Dawes Lloyd George Senators Lodge and
Borah home state governors and school heads CobenZ Hayt
Costa Rca, Moscow budget collective bargaining buyers
strike peonage sales tax soVesm and Sim Fem They dealt
with problems beyond the grad
uaes but they did call for right study of events Yet
mixing average the lowest marks like cent and
IL cent with highest marks like 8S cent and go cent
the country wide average for 500 students "A cent
college Juniors and seniors did the best, but they
ill
per the 5000 students in high school graduating
classes OF 10000 high school students 1000 in the second
term of the third did the best earning SO per cent while
1900 high school freshmen averaged only 80 cent For g.
250 school seniors the AZ cent while
1900 seventh grade pupils earned 80 per cent.
Typical of ignorance misunderstanding with respect to
current problems, the following cited from high
schoozand college students:
tate college juniors did
H. given as head of the ship
building trade poet aos representative
and minister to France England and Japan
Lloyd Bitans o
diplomat
psychic
the dead member Hardng
mak advocate OF nn known to but of 81 high school
England
private secretary and now wont
William Borah fighter for disarmament
Gncle sam dubbed a socialist
of
a
keeping expenses the amour
estimate Of revenue in the British house o commons
Sim Fein is Of mysterious Russia party
or lin leand
Our last two constitutional amendments
paved restricted
from foreign affairs reduced and International
Cafdine Duas shfnen of