The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-16
PROBLEMS THAT
FACE EDUCATION
TO Be STUDIED
Results May Change Education
System of Entire State; James
E. Spitznas To Be Present

Il. SpltZnaS 10 be Present
A group of instructors in the
public schools of Garrett county
will continue their discussion of
the problems facing education
today, at a meeting Of the county
study group on Monday after
noon, October 20, in the grand
jury room at the Court House.
These study groups are in line with
the recommendations of the 1941 State
school survey, and are composed in
the main of high school instructors.
The outcome is expected to be an i'm
proved program of education for all
Maryland schools.
The group here includes F. D. Bit
tie, Oakland, chairman; w. j. Glenn,
Friendsville, secretary; Raymond Nc
Cullough, Friendsville, science; Mrs.
Evangeline R. Glenn, Friendsville, mu-
sic; Frank Getty, Grantsville; Mrs.
Elizabeth Renninger, Grantsville, home
economics; Miss Emma Caulk, Grants
vile, languages; B. o. Aiken, Acct
dent; Arthur Scrogum, Accident,
mathematics; Miss Helen Custer, Oak
land, English; Marshall Brown, Oak
land, social studies; Miss Catherine
Baker, Oakland, art; Oren T. eraser,
Oakland, agriculture; o. P. Jones',
Kitzmiller, shop; Erwin S. Smith, Oak
land, commercial; Asa Lewis, Kemp
ton; Miss Kate Bannatyne and Mrs.
Caroline Wilson, elementary supervis-
ors; Clyde Dahlgren, Oakland ele-
mentary. Two or three others will be
added to this committee from the ele-
mentary teaching staff, it was stated
by F. E. Rathbun, County Superin-
tendent, who is chairman exofficio of
the group.
James E. Spitznas, high school
supervisor for this section of Mary
land, plans to be present Monday to
make clear the purposes of the pro-
gram, the kind Of preparation each
member of the committee will be re-
quested to make, and to outline the
specific assignments for the ensuing
meeting in November.
The committee, and similar groups
throughout the State, with its re-
sponsibilities, will probably have more
to do with directing the educational
affairs of the state during the next
several years than any other organ
ization, according to Mr.. Rathbun.
Through these groups, faculty meet
ings and general meetings of all high
school teachers, the possibilities in the
way of additional curriculum mater
ials, and the realization of the various
ways in which materials can be select
ed, organized and presented will be
brough out, so that all may get pic
ture of the high school program of
the future.
Mr.. Rathbun said that Maryland has
had the experience of having its edu-
cational program analysed from time
to time in recent years. The American
Youth Commission study was made in
1861; civilizations of the major
ity of the high schools have been made
within the last three years and the
1941 survey has just been published.
One of the recommendations of the
survey was that a long-term study
program be launched.
To-day, as never before, the prob
lem of what the high schools ought
to teach in order that all may learn
is engaging the attention of school
people everywhere" Mr.. Rathbun de-
clared. "The problems of the machine
era, the higher age for first employ
ment, changing conditions in family
and community life, increased oppor-
tunities for leisure, awakening con-
seriousness of our past neglect in car
ing for natural resources, the increas-
ing part played by the Government in
the life of every individual, and the
increased awareness of the prime ne
cessity of adequately preparing pu-
pills for citizenship in a democracy
these are some of the conditions and
problems that are Of such import to
the future of our democracy that the
schools generally regarded as the bull
wark of free people, cannot ignore
them.
"Our responsibility as teachers is to
teach the young people to live and to
be able also to earn living" he con-
cluded.