The Washington herald., 1921-07-10

Nt1llsD study III America Is pledsuIdDlS uuly VI
parents" while in England it is "a function Of
teachers" according to a correspondent writing to
the London Times
Anyone who doubts this" he declares need only
study the membership of the many American associations
which devote themselves chidrenS welfare Our Child
Study Society becomes society OF teachers.
The Montesso Society," started mainly by parents passed
of hands into the hands of teachers the nces
SAINT demand for Montessor-traned and govern
remained unsatsfed and the method took hold in
the schools The program of this weeks p N. E. u
ference taken up chiefly with abstract questions The
Legacy of History, The Dangers of Knowledge. Knowi
edge Measure of Values the last expounded by the dean
of ST. Pauls
"There is a future for someone in England who will
child study federation the lines of the organza-
ton which Mrs. Howard Cans in England, has de-
voted lfes work This lady has been looking in vain in
England for any real interest shown by wetodo parents
In their children In America children not sent away
boarding schools American fathers and mothers
temperamentay younger, and put up with chill
drens racket than their English contemporaries English
parents born old stout Guidebook to Childhood
which recently arrived in this country has been compiled
by Prof William Byron Forbuh from the answers given
thousands of nquiring parents by the American Institute
of Child Life Philadelphia In directory at the end of
the book endless societies for child study noted
Child study from the family standpoint is more fun
damena than from the point of view of the teacher The
great things from the point of view of child who
school of any but the modern type the things
that be squeezed in in the hacyon unnerrupon of the
holidays The teacher through the conditions of his work.
is bound get away from nature and educational
will become devtazed if left much in the hands
of teachers The preparatory and public schools think less
of chds needs than of what its parents will expect and
the parents trained in expecting and the kind
of thing that they believe all the other schools provide
Skeching the development since 1888 of the New York
Federation for Child Study. the article continues:
"The main purpose of the Federation for Child Study
is to aid in bringing about the necessary sympathy be-
the different viewpoints of parent and child The
founders of the federation state frankly that the need not
try improve the children who quickly adapt to chang
ing conditions and new forces but to help their parents,
whose tendency to become and conservative
to keep up
an America all and-sundry organizations which exist
for the ends appear willing than in this country
adapt their another pool funds for special
purposes and to put all shoulders to the wheel for
the purpose of getting In England dozens of
movements less connected with the welfare of
children turn their back another and languish for
of funds and the of the London play center
ment is worst and saddest of ALL Because American
vitality interested in their children they
interested in the children Of others The London Nursery
School Movement is enstng rich mothers to help poor
mothers But is trying to combat the wel-to-do
mothers tendency to be- done with her child by handing
to other people to bring up"