Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-12-20
Address d Delivered on
Objectiives in Education.
lcontinued from l,rst page.

placed there because lit will help to
make better Citizens. When you meet
the objective Of health education you
have helped in part to solve the CT
tizenship question The same is true
regarding the other detectives SO far
named a worthy home member, a
person who has a worthy vocation and
one who has health is apt to- be a
better citizen for those reasons. It is
not enough that instruction be given
in the plan Of our government. Where
good government Is dependent upon
the intelligence Of the governed as it
is in Democracy, such as ours, It
is essential that we have majority
of citizens who have been trained
with all Of these main detectives in
view. Some have mistaken ideas re-
garding the training for citizenship
They look upon it only as a separate
subject to be taught in the schools.
BY them T have. heard it said that
the Legislature should pass law re-
curing at least a year and hairs
credit in Citizenship for High School
graduation It is my opinion that
such law would be Of no value. The
school teaches good citizenship when
it trains the students to become skill
full in the fundamental processes,
when it helps to build strong physical
bodies, when 1t trains for worthy
home membership, when it trains for
a vocation, when it develops habits
for worthy use of leisure and when
it builds strong ethical character. In
the teaching of every subject the
school is engaged in training for good
citizenship. This is as it should be.
Civic education should never be lost
sight Of by the school as one Of the
main detectives in education.
6. Worthy Use Of Leisure. Every
individual should have a margin of
time for the cultivation Of personal
and social interests. He should have
leisure time in which to recreate his
powers and enlarge and enrich his
life. The tendency Of the times is to
shorten the working hours and thus
lengthen the time for leisure 1t fol-
lows therefore that the worthy use of
leisure should receive increasing con-
sideration as an objective in educa-
ton. The unworthy use of leisure
may impair health, disrupt home life,
lessen vocational efficiency, and de-
stroy civic mindedness Right habits
and an appetite for the finer enjoy
ments Of leisure must be attained in
youth. -
Z. We come now to the seventh
and last named objective, Ethical
Character. The realization of all the
detectives already named Is dependent
upon Ethical Character. For this rea-
son it should receive specific cOns1d-
GRAFTON as a main objective in educa-
ton. Good citizenship, vocational ex-
cellence, worthy home membership, go
hand in hand with ethical character.
Our schools must keep this objective
in mind. The finished product must
be men and women with ideals. with
force Of will to live up to these ideals.
They must be moral and upright in
their home life, honest in their voca-
ton, dependable in their community,
state and nation. II. -. 81. IL
l think our schools are doing their
utmost to meet this requirement. Cen
orally speaking I think you will adj
NIT that no other profession has a
stronger percentage Of officially strong
men and women than the teaching
profession. They are setting a worthy
example. Ethical training is given
every day. know full well that the
schools have been accused of falling
down in this respect. Many would
have it that religion should be taught
In the schools for the purpose Of
building strong ethical character. I
agree with them that that should be
the purpose Of religious education, in
part at least. If that is the purpose
of religious education then / submit!
to you that the schools are already
giving considerable: religious educa-
ton. Should it be a part Of ones re-
lgion to live a clean life so that he
or she may grow up to be strong.
healthy man or woman, with skill in
the command of fundamental process
ses, worthy home member. officially
sound in vocation, intelligent and
conscientious contributors to the pro-
motion of the common welfare Of our
community, state and nation and in
all this morally strong, if that is
a part OF, our religion, then say that
the school, the public school, is doing
as much as should be expected Of it
in the line Of religious education The
public school can never be expected
to teach the different shades Of sec
tartan beliefs, ss 5z.5
In conclusion, may I say that if we
accept these to be the detectives in
the education which should be pro-
vided for all the children of all the
people, and admitting that the ele-
mentary schools cannot meet these OBJ
jectives, then we have failed as a
community state and nation, until
Secondary Schools have been. placed
within the reach Of every child
whether he lives in the country or in
the city mention this because it is
a problem which we must face
whether we live in the city or country.
We have not done our full duty as
a state and as nation until the
same opportunity for education has
been provided for all.
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