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PUBLIC LIBRARY
EDUCATING FOR TOMORROW.

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the United States are meeting in
Washington to discuss their problems
and their plans. The Public Library
suggests the following books and mag
azine references as aids in clarifying
your ideas as to the aims and objec-
tives of these leaders in education.
Books.
Adult Education and the Social Scene,
by Ruth KotinSky. 1888. IL.
K843.
"A well balanced treatment of the
American movement for adult educa-
ton. Attention is given to the vast
| and difficult task of making the ordi-
nary daily environment more educa-
tive, and to the eternal difference be-
tween youth and adult life"
Dare the School Build New Social
Order? by G. S. Counts. 1882.
IK83.C83d.
"The author holds that schools must
become centers for building our civili-
Zation, not merely for contemplation.
They should give children vision OF
the possibilities which lie ahead and
should endeavor to enlist their loyal
ties and enthusiasm in the realization
Of the vision"
Education and the Social Crisis, by
w. H. Fitzpatrick. 1882. IK.K555e.
"Any system of education must al
ways confront life itself. AS life
changes, so must the system of edu-
| cation change. But more than this,
education must actively help to re-
make life. In fact, education taken
in the broad is but society at work
consciously remaking itself as it re-
makes its circumstances
The Educational Frontier, by w. H.
Fitzpatrick and others. 1888. TX.
K555ef.
When educational leaders such as
Fitzpatrick. Bode and Dewey express
their ideas, people are sure to take
notice. In this book they analyZe
changes in American life and outline
program for an education which will
fit pupils to understand the life of
which they are a part.
The New Leisure Challenges the
Schools, published by the National
Recreation Association. 1888. Tx.
N219.
"A challenging account of what is
being done in our schools to encourage
wiser use of leisure time. Gives the
bad as well as the good examples of
the direction of physical education,
dramaticS and after-school activities"
The Opportunity Schools of South
Carolina, by w. S. Gray and others.
1882. IL.G78.
THE purpose, scope and activities
of these opportunity schools have at
tracted national attention They
make it possible for young people and
adults to attend school for a few
weeks in an institution where the ma
terial needs of life are provided, a
stimulating environment created and
efficient instruction given"
Problems of Education in the United
States, by C. H. Judd. 1888. IK83.
J88p.
"A wise and forward looking treat
ment of the new status of children,
problems of school administration,
finance and adult education. This Is
one Of the most important books in
| the outstanding series of reports called
Recent Social Trends in the United
States"
Youth Never Comes Again, edited by
Clinch Calkins. 1884. las. S.Cl25.
This is handbook to promote the
idea that something should be done
for the hundreds of thousands of
young people neither in school nor
regularly employed. 1t is plainly every
ones business. The family and the
State and the intermediate commu-
nifty have different reasons for alarm
at the aimlesSness which now char
acteriZes those years to which ambi-
ton is normally indigenous The
school plays its important role in the
| scheme"
Magazine Articles.
Educating Children for the New Deal,
by Rabbi A. H. Silver. In Journal
of the National Education Associa-
tion, April, 1884.
THE new deal is not an emergency
| measure to tide over depression. 1t is
a reorganization of society to make
future depreSsions unlikely If we
are to work for a better social order,
our children must be taught to know
what is wrong with the existing
| order"
Freeing Adults for the Uncharted
Future, by J. K. Hart. In Progress
sive Education, April-May, 1884.
"Ot course the real problem of edu-
cation for the future is that of edu-
eating adults: First, the Nation really
needs leaders now and can't wait 20
years for children to grow into ma
turity and leadership; and second,
children can't get past their parents
at least not in large numbers-and so
achieve an intelligent development in
spite OF their parents"
II There Were Millions, by T. H.
Briggs. In Teachers College Rec
ord, May, 1884.
This great teacher points out the
value in using the criticism offered
when the schools are under so much
pressure and scrutiny to develop a
more useful system against the time
when funds are again plentiful.
Putting 1t Up to Patrons, by w. S.
Deffenbaugh. In School Life,
April, 1884.
A report of what happened when
the Baltimore Board of School Com
missioners asked rs leading citizens to
give the schools their support.
Relation of the Federal Relief Agen-
cies to Education, by G. F. zook.
in School and Society, February
"a, 1884
1.-The former commissioner of ed
ucation discusses 10 of the emergency
agencies with brief notes to show the
contribution to or implication for ed
ucation."
Tomorrow May Be Too Late" by
Katharine Glover. In Good House