Putnam patriot., 1927-03-04
Superintendent R. C. Jenkins One of Speakers At Meet
 ing Pomona Grange
(. NJ. Gardner, High Priest of De
 meter, Instslls Officers


 4 most interesting and vel! attend cd meeting of Quinebaag Pomona Grange was held in Elks Hall last Saturday Hon. Charles M Gardner High Priest of Demeter. Springfield, Mass.. installed the officers tn very impressive manner. He was assisted b@ Mrs Caroline M HaiHes as mar hal. with Miss Davis of Wolf Den Grange and Hiss Pike of Brooklyn Grange acting as aides. The flag bear CTS were little Misses Barstow and Keith Miss Della Weeks. Hampton, was chaplain.
 The meeting opened at 10-30 a. m. in the fifth degree. when reports were read and business transacted. At noon @ fine dinner was served in Red Men B Hall
 The installation took place at the afternoon session, which opened at go o'clock to all patrons. Mir. Gard ner gave a splendid address and there were musical numbers by members of Putnam Grange and friends. Ralph C. Jenkins, superintendent of schools of Putnam, alsO gave an excellent ad dress He departed from the critical attitude, What is wrong SO often a theme selected. and chose the opti- misIic subject. What's Right With Our Schools Mir Jenkins said in part
 Present Aims
 One hears SO much today about whats wrong" with this and that. with the government. with agriculture. with the schools, that know you wili find it refreshing t0 consider with me the topic What's Right With the Schools. It is difficult to compare the schools Of today with the schools uf fifty years ago, IHasmaeh aa he schools represent quite a different thing now from what they did gen erHtion past The aim in 1876. for in= stance. was frankly cultural. to teach many of the children the three k#s and the select few those subjects de signed te make them cultured. The aim today s to educate for citizen ship. to teach all thc children in n de maefacy. those arts and skills which will assist them 1s earn their liYeli= hood aHd Co succeed as normal, social beings in @ high. complex civilization.
 To be q good citizen
 T he school of taday arc more near 4 rirht than those of generation ago Iaf at least aes reasons.
 The teHeheH= 8fe better trained rmfa CfHuHis. aHd just as causcieu t.a5#
 FHr uergHs9rE force I better tram #Hd i#afe adeHHat
 school building have been very mHzH
 uE. growing eufricuia hase ta ed fot most school which THHz8tl Hath for Ihe social gaad lHd f1 ua daai difficulties.
 Inc school terms are much bong ,r and thr a1te4dunca E much higher
 Children Stepped on
 d1 nat NIzlr ia di isnafaee the born teachers af generation ago. but many af tha teachers of that tune were net born teachers and used the classroom merely as stepping stone to something else. forgetting that fl was the children who were being step ped upon Beginning next year. ev- cry new teacher m thc elementary schools of Connecticut must bc grad uate of a normal school. or have had two years training beyond the high school Every new teacher ln high school teaching academic subjects. must he a college graduate. and have either taken the subjects to be taught ia college OF passed examinations off them She must also have taken a minimum number ef courses in educa tiau WhIle u college
 The superintendent of school today ls neW officer He did Het exist in many places q generation ago, but hfs duGir in the modern school y stem arg manifold IT, i4 required ta plan for geW huildlnss and thelf equipment. ta prar.dc teN aaoks and apparatus. tH nominate teachers lauitufs. cierh.. and other rmf.afrs of Che Baafd et Education. td supervise hca.tb Phl rui adueatiuu. and other special pea= grams ta direet thn work adalt e.i t.glmH and smersanIzatiaa. ta sl1= ust laaeet aud tH .tagrfi gNHent= turfe ucrtdnr ta thl buiuHt ta kTaF u permanent sehnal census. tu ddmn -trf the provisions af 0te Compulsory Attendance Law to 1eit the eta ass ruams. etr From que,ti8unaIre lg# egugir submitted to the suHfrluttnd rf pf shoais iH Connecticut E aP-
 tta#tH Nfif ahtH stHt rtt tit@t i''tftfNtt tth
 man theN five years ol age or older. whe Is graduate if 2 college uhe has spent fhe equivalent of an 8d ditlenal year tn graduate study. who s reading an average of fifteen te twenty five books a year on education, who is regularly attending educational meetings and institutes. and otherwise keeping pp with the profession
 The Course of Study
 The course of study a generation agu was dictated by the colleges The schools followed the textbooks largely. and the textbooks were almost uuiVer- sally written by college professors, The modern course of study such us the one recently issued by che State Board uf Education of Connecticut Is B easpeGat te# enterprise it t~ gotten Hr hs the teachers them ivgs. work ms through committees. and it inc eludts tee various methods and devices that are psychological correct. and have pfaxed useful through years oE practical demonstration