Evening star., 1933-07-12
Place of Education in Nation
Attested in Debate on Cost

Speakers before the sessions of the
National Education Association. meeting
in Chicago. covered a wide range in
reviewing the protests against reduced
appropriations, and gave particular at
| tention to the belief that under chang
! ing conditions it is the duty of the
schools to interpret such policies as
may be adopted by the country 1t is
pointed out that. with organized in
dustry there will be greater time for
purely intellectual pursuits Develop
ment of country districts, it is believed.
will create new demands for education
Of a high grade
Warning from Dr. Willard E. Given,
superintendent of schools in Oakland.
Calf, that teachers must become
aware OF the tremendous responsible
ties which fall upon them in the def
mite working out of our social pro-
gram" is quoted by the New Orleans
i Times-Picayune, with the similar state
ment from United States Commissioner
OF Education Cooper that "development
OF new course on problems in democ-
racy' would be helpful" The New Or
leans paper comments on the declara-
ions OF these speakers: "Sounder and
more thorough instruction on the duties
ana obligations of citizenship unques-
| &.
ing attention given this matter by edu-
Gators and educational gatherings is bv
no means the least encouraging sign of
the times. The need cannot be sup
plled. OF course, by conversation merely:
put out OF its recognition and frank
discussion in educational circles should
be evolved definite and practical and
effective plan for better education in
cltlzenshlp worthy of adoption and
practice on a Nationwide scale"
DR.. Given'S belief that teachers
must become politically conscious" is
discussed by the Chicago Daily News.
with the conclusion that IF politics is
to be redeemed from its deserved Ill
repute. education must be its redeem
er." and that lit is primarily requisite
that the teacher-ci should put a
thoroughly informed idealism into his
own political practice" That paper
also finds interest in the statements of
Secretary Ickes before the ASSOCIATION
| that new conditions and new social
problems require radical readiustments
IN education. We must accom-
MEDIATE the young people up to their
eighteenth or twentieth year. for indus
Try VIII not absorb them earlier. =
We must organize the leisure time of
the bulk OF our population from the
end of school onward" The Daily News
feels that this implies new ideal and
new system. costly in terms Of dol
lars, but productive and efficient in
| terms OF national stability and advance
ment." 1t is suggested that educators
have not agreed in the past" and that
agreements must precede clarifcation
| and effective appeals for public sup
| port"
DR.. Glenn Frank. president Of the
University of Wisconsin, is quoted by
the San Jose Mercury Herald as en-
phasizing that "inf1exible tradition" is
"waging a battle with flexible intelli-
| gence, quality which only proper edu-
| cation could give Americans" The
Mercury Herald also refers to the state
ment by Dr. Frank that exercise of
| this intelligence alone could determine
whether youth in the future would be
| able to resist the pressure of alarmists,
| advocates of ultra actfonary doctrines
| and radicaIism" That paper believes
| that "tne battle should begin with the
educators, wedding out those teachers
who subtly instill those doctrines"
Owen D. Young's vision of IAN i'm
pressive tranposition OF culture from
cities to rural schools, as one of the re-
| suits of the trend Of population to rural
| communities and their development, !"
and as zone of the striking features
| of the new deal,'" Is received by the
Nashville Banner with the comment
that It Is accompanied by "reminiscences
! that are interesting and suggestive"
The Rochester Times Union oners the