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values, he declared. .Economic
gains, even scientific gains. are
worse than useless il they accrue
!. to a people untitled by trained
character to use and not to abuse
them
Hoover said that teaching had
always been an underpaid profess
sion. He saw no further excuse
for 'niggardliness toward those
who so largely create the nations
ability and upon whom the coun-
try's whole existence Is dependent.
TO you school men and school
women" Hoover said, sis entrusted
the major part in handing the ira
ditions of our republic and its
ideals. Our greatest national IDEAL
Is democracy. 1t is your function
TO keep democracy possible oy train
ing its children to its ways and
its meanings.
I'VE have seen many attempts in
late years to set up the forces of
democratic government, but many
Of them are but the forms, for
without a Hterate citizenry, taught
and enabled to form sound public
opinion. there is no real democracy.
The spirit OF democracy can sur
yive only through universal educa-
ton.
Understanding Needed
'tAll this has been said often
enough before. and lest our national
critics should object to its repetition
I may add that we don't expect
you to teach the gamut OF local,
national and international problems
TO children. What democracy re-
quires Is a training OF mind which
will permit an understanding of
such problems. and the formation
u reasonable opinion upon them.
That the resultant win in the long
run be an enlightened public opin-
ion is a hazard upon the intelli-
gence Of our race that the believers
IN democracy are willing to take.
And democracy is a basis Of
human relations far deeper than
the form OF government. 1t is not
only a form Of government and
an ideal that all men are equal be-
fore the law; it is also an ideal of
equal opportunity. Not only must
we give each new generation this
spirit of democracy, but we must
give to them a fundamental con.
tribution to an equality of oppor-
tunity through educational equip
ment.
Some poetic mind called America
the melting pot for all races; there
have been some disappointments in
melting adults, but none will deny
that our public schools are the real
melting pot, pouring out a new
race. Under our schools race, class
and religious hatreds fade away.
TP,.0rra this raol x1oaIffno not e.
hope OF that fine metal which will
carry the advance of our national
achievement and our national
ideals"
Public Opinion Controls
More science in education was
declared to be a desperate need"
by Dean James e. Russell, of the
Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity. speaking at the morning
Public opinion back of school
boards fixes our educational creed
ard controls all educational under
takings. Any other control is in
conceivable while we maintain our
present ideals of American democ.
racy." Dean Russell said.
However, this trend of public
opinion la matters educational is
part and parcel of the tendency of
the times to shape conduct by legal
enactment. Whether we like 1t or
not, some school boards viii sit in
Judgment on history texts and some
will bar our modern science.
Familiarity with the science of
education and its promotion through
research and investigation are the
duty and privilege of the teaching
profession. / wish, however, that
could impress upon the American
public the significance of the art
Of education and their duty and
privilege with respect to 1t.
THE science of education, like
the science Of surgery. is q per-
sonal and professional possession,
but the art Of education. like the
art OF surgery, is what is put ut
the service OF the public. The sci
ence without the art Is mere learn
Ing: the art without the science is
&uackery."
With the election yesterday OF