The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-16
EDUCATION TERMED
ANSWER TO FASCISM
BY DR.. T. H. BRIGGS
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provisions which he said shouId
be made for the school system:
IA retirement plan for
teachers las well as for other
state employees.
illegal protection for teach.
ers against dismissal for politi.
cal or petty" reason.
3.-Constant revision of cir.
riculum to meet changing con.
ditions.
Especial emphasis on an.
probation and preservation of
democracy.
electromagnetic of com.
munity effort.
6.-Sufficient funds for voca.
tional education.
Increase in state funds
for a general advance of the
whole school program.
8.-Federal support based on
needs of states, with complete
autonomy of state administra-
ton.
9.-Adult education based on
needs.
10.-Increase in the compul-
sorry school attendance age from
IA to 16 years.
Outlining a program to combat
the threat of democracy, DIR.
Briggs said:
I'm the first place, they
(schOols) should employ and re-
tain only teachers who under.
stand democracy and believe in
it. l think they should go even
further and demand that teach
ers should not only believe in it
but that they should evidence
that belief by a reasonably dem.
Ocratic life 80.
Second, Our schools should
exempIify the principles of de.
mocracy in their organization,
their administration and their
teaching go. the one essential
in the democratic procedure of
the schools is respect for the in
d%ividual, whatever his origin,
his natural endowment or his
characteristics that result from
the joint influence of heredity
and environment"
Earlier today DIR. Dora V.
Smith of the University of Min
nesota told the teachers that the
greatest discovery they could
make sis of books students are
interested in"
Teachers who use Chaucer an
alone to compete, in holdin
student interest, with such author
as Edgar Rice Burroughs, the o
iginator of Tarzan, are "insultin
the literary heritage" she added.
Speaking at a divisional meetin
the urban education group, D.
w. Mcdonald of Chapel Hi
said that city school facilities j
Carolina are the most inad'
auate in the nation.
DR.. Mcdonald, associate directo
IF extension at the University c
Carolina, said the only RENE
ly for the situation was the votin
If local funds to supplement stat
appropriations.
THE curriculum in the averag
Carolina city is woefully ir
said Mcdonald. "Cit,
after city has been forced to elm;
1ate important subjects like music
art, physical education and man,
practical subjects"
Divisional officers were elected a
Rural Education association-Mrs
Ruby Gouge of Bakersville, pres:
lent; Mrs. L. S. Mcdonald of Fores
City, secretary; T. c. Robertson Q
county, western vic
president; Mrs. c. E. Eller Q
Wilkesboro, northwestern vice pres
dent; Mrs. J. F. McGinnis of Cor
cord, south Piedmont vice president
D. H. Connolly of Pitt county, north
eastern vice president; T. R.. Ever
stt, north central vice president; E
l.. Keye of Jacksonville, southeaster.
vice president.
Department of superintendence-J
A. Tarlton of Rutherford county
president; J. A. Holmes of Edentor
vice president; A. B. Wilkins o
Cumberland county, secretary-treas
Classroom Teachers association
Mrs. Annie H. Swindell of Durham
president. The association also nom
mated the following for other posts
Miss Carrie Duncan of Winston-Sa
EN- and Miss Fannie Sutton of XIII
,ton, vice president; Mrs. Jea:
Joyce of Wilmington and Miss Ann
Rose Sullivan of Raleigh, secretary
Miss Betty Wilkins of Fayettevill
and Mrs. Minnie Castor of Sails
curry, treasurer.
SENDS GREETINGS
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