The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-28
DIR. BUTLER ON EDUCATION.


 President Nicholas Murray Ba1er. head Columbia Uni osms of educational -Zstcln which from such must attract attention.
 Butler says the spirit and temper of ournaIi=rn which may perhaps fairly described dayto-day yness setting vice of the present day and generation.
 He says the enemy constant and continuing ere= any serious subject eevoes superncaiy the plane of am occupation"
 not exist to tell what happened last week. but to tell what is happening today and " Indicate that certain things about 10 happen Tn the near future
 The newspaper today the superficial of all news papers, which have been published within recorded lime
 If Dr. Butler should that newspapers more prehensive they appeal to wider class people un they used 10 appeal to- he would be the fact attends employment wide phrases general where and phrases ought be employed
 fine term of Journalism" is included all newspapers hut newspapers are Individuals so to speak They range from inc country weekly to the great city daily and these dailies newspapers of different descriptions
 Papers Transcript which is very super cal: papers Hear-7 which superficial "iL@7 5nd not m others iPars like the Ne" lorh Times which give extended and detailed information upon the graVes The comics are doubtless superficial but they are intended for people and for the side of the adult There Is multiplication of mctures if is easier to learn Pictures appropriate population a large part which Is not thoroughly grounded in English.
 The side and the side. doubtless, somewhat oveemphazed especially in newspapers which intended for the but more people reading and thinking If the people will but read and think the eIecive side Inc play those who able read and think in higher terms will do
 Dr. Butler makes complaint failure O systems o education 10 be in complete adaptation with life
 ascrIbes this failure to the family and the church. In this. his reasoning seems to be unsond.
 Would Dr. Butler say that the backward state of farm chinery due O the family and the church?
 the antique character of the housing, parts a city $ due lo the family and the church?
 thing first is succeeded, progressive civilizations by better things which done afterward
 and other the latest thing does not immediately succeed the earlier and inferior thing.
 years stands side by side with the yesterday The with the faults of the past he other with the Improvements of the time.
 Ii is the with schools
 Education has been brought down the ages by succeed individuals who had received type of education which being hi4Iy convononazed became and out of with modern life.
 public education is baine improved, Educators are coming into au horly ly do think modern terms.
 Invention $ improving the American school system. Inc school buiIdne the methods teaching in the things that are taught and many other ways.
 The family and the church not the source of that some ~llIn called -iuvcntion
 thing which the better thing. is alNys the pro- duct two girJcd minds
 telephone until Alexander Graham Bell. No flying chimes until r Wright Brothers No doctrine law of rela- livty until E.u-ain.
 The inventors reaching education This hes moi been altogether the fauit of the inventors.
 Progress has usually been welcome to educators. 10 systems of education,
 An individual haeng at some time absorbed his Latin and his mathematics and has acquired perty tle mind
 He - not always pleased when he learns that his property If mind ;. moi @ all that it ought to be. He feels the same IS when he told building lot is not desirable, that his horse is 4parinad or that his machinery is obsolete
 fault then backward education lies with educators who as a class ultra conservative.