Evening star., 1925-10-18
FRANCE WORKS WITH i. S.
In CHARACTER EDUCATION
Cooperating With Institution Here to
Give Moral instruction in Schools.
Other Nations Expected to Join.

schools. to antagonism and jealousy
toward Germany will be eliminated.
special invitation is being extended
to German educationists to cooperate
in developing character education OF
children.
Would Pass Down Heads.
The purpose the national leaders in
education have in mind in developing
character education is the transmits
sion from one generation to another
of the moral ideals which are the
foundations of civilization in all ma
tfons. The entire personnel of
nation changes in seventy years, and
the morality which has been found
good in experience has to be made
of influence in the lives Of each gen
GRAFTON. If international good will and
justice are to be maintained through
hundreds of years, the children Of
each generation must be brought up
right, so that in their turn as adults
they Will do justice and maintain
good will among nations.
The expense of character education
in schools can be saved from the ma
tion's expense for crime, and general
happiness much increased by the estab-
Hshment of fair and generous treat
ment of each other in human society.
The Mexican Secretary of Public
instruction. DR.. Puig Casaurano, has
put his Mexican Department of Edu-
cation into cooperation with the
United States Characte Education
Institution to work out the best poe
slble character plans for use In the
Mexican schools. Miss Adela Pa
lacios of Mexico has spent a month
this summer studying American ideas
as to character education in Wash
| ington and New York City, and has
already begun a study of the chill
| dren In one of the elementary schools
of Mexico City to discover what vir-
| tues especially need emphasis In the
| Mexican schools.
Other Countries Support Asked.
| invitations to form special co-operat-
| ing character education committees
| have been extended to educationists
| in England, Scotland and Japan, and
| indications are that they will accept.
| secretary George c. Pringle of the Edu-
! cation Institute of Scotland has writ
ten to say that If a Scottish commit
| tee is to be constituted he needs only
TO be commanded to render any
| assistance possible.
| In this effort to make the public
| schools of greater help in bringing up
| the children to believe and practice
I civilization morality the educationists
are urging the parents to become more
earnest In the homes for right conduct
of children and the clergymen more
earnest for religious education in the
| churches
| This is the first time in the history
of education that the educationists of
| various nations have combined 10 dis
| cover by research work how to make
education effective for the development
OF personal character as a factor in
| civilization
The great motive for character de-
Velopment on the part of children Is
| that they have 10 take the nlaces Of
| their parents and elders in the work
OF civilization or the whole fabric OF
a nation disfntegrates. Children can
| see this great basic fact of human life.
| and II is natural for them TO respond
when the appeal to them is skillfully
made that they sustain in their gen
GRAFTON the civilization which their an
cestors have created.
Boston Adopts Plan.
The Boston School Board has al.
ready adopted plans for "citizenship
education through character develop
ment. The chiidren's morality code
IS being used in all the classrooms of
the Boston elementary schools, and a
school journal on citizenship" is pub
lished by the School Board. free copies
going to each teacher each month.
| The State Department of Education
of Missouri. DR.. Charles A Lee. State
superintendent. has appointed a State
adviser in character education, and re-
search committees have been appoint
ed in some 20 other States The pro-
fessors in teachers colleges and in
universities are being asked to help in
these researches and to begin the
/ I,ai,-
teachers of character as we'll as of the
| three RS"