Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-03-05

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by NOTED EDUCATOR

"Since the education of a child
goes on, with tremendous force all
the time, outside of the school as
well as in, organized cooperation of
the school and the home is an edu-
cational necessity" was the state
ment of Miss Frances Hays, National
| Field Worker, when she addressed
| the combined section of the Kinder
garten and Elementary Teachers and
the Parent-Teacher association dur
ing the holiday meeting of the state
teachers association in Columbus.
This cooperation must not be in
cidental, accidental and occasional,
all the time and with definite plan
and purpose Education of our chill
drln is the one biz business of all
the American people to which every
one and everything contributes.
There are some S50,000 teachers in
this country for our 26 million chill
dren, all OF whom have some special
training for their work But for the
teacher mother and the teacher
father who deal with the children
until they are siE years Of age,
there IS no training and no law re-
quirins it, II the trained teacher
makes mistakes, fand trained teach
ers do make them}, is it any wonder
unframed parents make them? The
tragedy is they make them with
their children through ignorance, at
the most !mprcssionabl2 time of the
children'e lives, at the great de-
terminin4 tine and the great neg
lected time-the pre-schoOl period.
I'm En@land there are 20 nursery
schools financed by public moneys
and about lie same number from
private sources. These schools are
not only training schools for chill
dren but for mothers, as well. They
are a splendid contradiction Of the
statement that nothing can be done
for the parents Of the present day,
to help them with the children they
now have.
Il know parents can learn and
want to learn. Last year there were
100 mothers in the P. T. A. course at
the University of Oregon, alone
There were many in all the other
summer courses at the various uni
versities and colleges, and they were
all eager to know.
"Organized cooperation betweCn
school people and the nome. through
such an organization as the Parent
Teacher association, brings to parents
the help they need. Furthermore,
it helps people to want help, it
teaches them their neec!
Just how great this need of
training is, how important it is, is
evident when we remember that one
seventh of the child's time is spent
in school and the other six-sevenths
at home or elsewhere. What of the
influences of these out-of-school
teachers? If they bear no relation
to the school then there is no unity
in the child's education. 1t is here
is of greatest influence since be-
cause of its essentially constructive
cooperation between home and
school in the interest of child edu-
cation, it eliminates those things
that disintegrate and destroy child
life.
THE Parent-Teacher association
is the most fundamentally construc-
tive force in the world today.
Through it we may reach al! the par
ents and teachers of all children.
The aims of the association are child
welfare, better homo life and an in
formed public opinion Ln al things
concerning children. We must work
for better understanding and sup
port of the Parent Teacher move
ment by educators. We must sell to
public in general the ideal of wise
cooperation between teacher and
parent and we must work for affilia-
tion of all parents and teachers with
national body itself and the utiliza-
tion of the wealth of material the
national offers. Every one admits
there is gap in the education of
children. To bridge this gap, to
render the unity education must
have to enable the child to be what
he should, the National Congress of
Parents and Taaoharc stands raadv