Show Schools Must lust Prepare Youth for new nev problem s I The public schools ha e the responsibility re responsibility of preparing the youth to meet the changing conditions of the social order writes William Wilham John Cooper United States CommissiOner of Education in 10 an article in the United States Stales Dail Dall He urged that teachers teacher prepare their pupils to meet and successfully cope ith frith the problems with which they Ill gill ft ill be faced in m life The article reads in part Obviously in m a hon civilization chang chang- changing chan changing ing mg so 80 rapidly as is 18 the present the teachers teacher's most valuable contribution to his pupils consists in m sho showing mg them how to face problems fearless fearlessly fearlessly fearlessly I ly and attack attach them ll But he will gill also need to make some additions to their usual equipment equip eqUIp- eqUIpment equipment ment Surveying Survey mg the age in m which he lives himself he must select those trends which seem most significant and help his charges to develop m in their youth those habits and atti- atti attitudes attitudes atti attitudes tudes which a will Ill ill sea sen soi-ie soi e a them in m good stead in m their adult sears ears In lIn the past such leisure time as asa asa asa a Cl civilization has been able to accum accumulate I has been preempted by a special special special cial class There can be little doubt m in the minds of students of society about the disposition of such leisure time in m the e The forces of democracy demand that ultimately It be distributed fairly to the of all the people This will gill be accomplished in m part b by shortening the working week eek and the working corking d diy But some of It till III also accrue to the j youth of the Nation in m a longer period of formal education The litter movement will III place upon educators the responsibility fOl foi corking out new ne methods of teaching teach teach- teaching m ing and a new curriculum for edu- edu education edu education cation on the secondary and higher I edu-I levels has never been offered to other than a small percentage of the people ith brains brams best adapted to mastering books and anda a few who ho can acqUIre technical manual skills A As nei ne kinds of minds enter the schools new de deIces devices Ices in m education must be developed It may be asked what would could ice e wedo icedo do with these boys bo s and girls if by legislature enactment we cete el e corn com compelled to take cafe caie cal e of all of them m in mour our schools until they ti were ere 17 18 or perhaps even een e en 21 years of age I offer here three suggestions The educator today must somehow or other keep the young citizens of tomorrow in school First until he can him better to utilize the Ie sure time which he will have a an adult Second to help him establish the habits and acquire the kno knowledge ledge which will enable him to c re c ire plop pi op erly foi his health and Third to afford him information matlon and the desire to vote ote ote intelligently m in a social organization which de depends depends on him as a citizen cn not only ol of r his city county state and nation butin but butin in ery very fact of the world and to enable him the better to do his Ius partin part partin m in solving problems increasingly economic in character and Interns Interns- I m in scope |