The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-11
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Parents, teachers and children
throughout America this week are OBJ
serving Education Week in recognition
Of one of the greatest boons this
country knows. its educational system.
In no other land arc opportunities
for instruction made more readily
available to children than in the
United States. Persistent effort
through the years has reduced illit-
eracy, and knowledge of the world
and its affairs, and of the people in
it and their affairs is more widespread
now than ever before.
This is as it should be, for there is
no stagnation in progress. The world
moves either forward or backward
and We, who are none too proud of
the world as we have made it, hope
for better and brighter future for
our children. If they are to have
such, the work of building it must
begin now. They must have better
knowledge and understanding of fl
nancial, social and other phenomena
than we have shown if they are to
avoid the pitfalls into which their
fathers have fallen.
When perfection arrives, either in
the state or the individual, the mil
lenium will have appeared also and
there will be no further fields to con-
quer, but that day still is a long way
off.
But it is an ambition toward whose
fulfillment the race we'll may address
itself. Greed, selfishness, vanity and
lust for power We always have had
with us and probably we always shall,
but the refining influences Of educa-
ton, the dissemination of a broader
knowledge will do much to reduce
their i'll effects and to curb their
operation.
The trend of education is to lay
emphasis on the schools, and GER
tainly they are a necessary part OF
any system which tends toward i'm
provement, but there are other agen-
cies which are just as important
The things which the child learns
in the classroom are explained and
enlarged for him in the home and in
his daily relationships with his fell
lows. The things learned at mothers
knee are all-important. Experiences
on the athletic field may play as i'm
portant part in developing the in
dividual as more formal instruction.
Education, therefore, must embrace
every phase of life if it is to be eff
fective and, like charity, it we'll may
begin at home. Father and mother
are the worlds greatest teachers. BY
example more than by precept do
they mould the minds of their chill
dren at the most impressionable age.
After the brief period in which the
home environment is everything, the
child is transferred to the larger
world and authority is divided. He is
placed under two separate guidances,
that of his parents and that of his
teachers.
The manner in which they cooper
ate and the success of their joint re-
suits will determine the future of this
nation. 1t is important, therefore,
that each of us think of education
week as an individual thing; that
parents resolve to do their full duty
to their children by setting good
example and giving proper attention
to their mental and moral outlook:
and that teachers seek new breadth
Of understanding and new enlighten-
ment in their efforts.
These forces, between them, hold in
their hands the future Of America
and of the world.